Famous Quotes & Sayings

Liane Moriarty

Marriage was a form of insanity; love hovering permanently on the edge of aggravation.

Paul Gillmor

Americans in all places and levels of government have begun to consider the areas where we need to prepare ourselves from future threats, including the latest weapon: bio-terror.

Peter L. Berger

I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.

Peter Coyote

Business is a subset of the environment, not the other way around. You can't have a healthy economy, you can't have a healthy anything in a degraded environment.

Keith Henson

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

Joan Collins

I consider you as old as you look and feel. And in that case I feel - I feel I'm about 39, like Jack Benny.

John Dingell

The Congress has now become a fairly evenly divided entity.

Joe Lando

Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.

Gustave Flaubert

The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.

Atharva Veda

Humanity is in spiritual ignorance; people see things that do not exist.

Richard Paul Evans

Humanity is always looking for the next great world, the next frontier. I wonder how different this world would be if we were content with where we were.

Russell Brand

Our social and economic systems are so devoid of humanity and love.

Trip Hawkins

[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature.

Sarah Kane

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.

Robert Owen

The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others.

Saint Basil

If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.

Yanni

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same.

Wole Soyinka

We live in a materialist world, and materialism appeals so strongly to humanity, no matter where.

Walter Benjamin

All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one.

Virginia Woolf

literature is the record of our discontent.

Vladimir Nabokov

To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue.

William O. Douglas

Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.

Joseph Addison

Jesters do often prove prophets.

George Andrew Olah

During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.

James Russell Lowell

[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own.

Laurence Sterne

But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.