Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicole Krauss

No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal.

Mark Twain

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

Marian Wright Edelman

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

In terms of 'Saving Face,' I was inspired by the stories of survivors who didn't let their attacks stop them from pursuing justice and seeking treatment.

Thomas a Kempis

Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.

Natalie Portman

It's quite a stark contrast between the candidates, in how they will change things for women. Hillary Clinton wants to appoint Supreme Court Justices who will protect Roe v Wade. [Donald] Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Justice is the infrastructure of proprietorship.

Tayari Jones

I don't mind expressing my opinions and speaking out against injustice. I would be doing this even if I wasn't a writer. I grew up in a household that believed in social justice. I have always understood myself as having an obligation to stand on the side of the silenced, the oppressed, and the mistreated.

Joseph Glanvill

Justice is but the distributing to everything according to the requirements of its nature.

Jenny Slate

I just left wishing that it was longer because I enjoyed it so thoroughly.

Ernest Hemingway

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

George Washington

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.

Cassandra Clare

Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.

Franz Wright

I wish you all the aloneness you hunger for.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!

Jeanette Winterson

Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one

Elton John

I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly.