Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Andrew Vachss

We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species.

Sara Paretsky

You get weird and unsettling behaviour in the country.

Sara Paretsky

I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likable female private investigator, and that's how VI came to life.

Sandra Cisneros

I'm afraid I'm still trying to find that balance. Especially now that everyone wants a piece of me. I find that I have to become more and more reclusive, and pick and choose when I am public and when I am private.

Scott Alexander

The basic rule of free enterprise: You must give in order to get.

Scott Alexander

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

Scott Alexander

Making money is a hobby that will complement any other hobbies you have, beautifully.

Scott Alexander

All good is hard. All evil is easy. Dying, losing, cheating, and mediocrity is easy. Stay away from easy.

Bob Ward

Alisa is starting to feel more comfortable in the point guard role. She's doing a much better job of finding her scoring opportunities and finding teammates. The big thing was we settled down in the second half after rushing things too much in the first half.

Arundhati Roy

The secret of the Great Stories is that they have no secrets. The Great Stories are the ones you have heard and want to hear again. The ones you can enter anywhere and inhabit comfortably... in the Great Stories you know who lives, who dies, who finds love, who doesn't. And yet you want to know again.

Jim DiNello

She made herself available, the other kids did a good job finding her and she did what she's supposed to and knocked ?em in. I can't tell you enough about Katie.

Larry Brown

I looked out there and it looked like a lot of guys just didn't care. That's tough, but you gotta keep finding the people that do (care) and hope you have enough of them.

Dolly Wells

I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and 'Extras' and also 'The Trip.' That had all the nuances of friendship and finding things out about their lives without it being too much plot-driven.

Amber Frey

I have a hard time finding you innocent in this, Scott.

Chris Jackson

I have managed to keep myself successful , and that's (being) right next to the basket. My teammates have done a pretty good job at finding me when it's there.

Ron Grantski

He said since the first night he wanted the focus to be on finding Laci, not on him,

Mike Holmgren

I don't know how good we are yet. That sounds odd, I know. But we're still finding out some things about ourselves. We were fortunate.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Existence is an imperfection.

Tara Brach

Imperfection is not our personal problem - it is a natural part of existing.

Joyce Meyer

We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.

Jack Ma

When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

William Shakespeare

And simple truth miscalled simplicity

Rita Mae Brown

Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.

John Milton

Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou liv'st, Live well, how long or short permit to heav'n

Nathaniel Rateliff

I've always loved soul, R&B, doo-wop and blues, and I've wanted to make a record like that for years.

Reed Kroloff

Sow a seed and let it grow, you never know where love will grow.

Jenna Bush

One day I would love to have a couple children.

O. Singh

Perform the tasks of Truth, wear Truth, and take the Support of the True Name. Associating with Truth, obtain Truth, and love the True Name.

Archibald MacLeish

Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced. Tropical beaches turned into high-priced slums where thousand-room hotels elbowed each other for glimpses of once-famous surf not because those who loved the beaches wanted them there but because enormous jets could bring a million tourists every year - and therefore did.

Ayn Rand

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.

Ayn Rand

I would step in the way of a bullet if it were aimed at my husband. It is not self-sacrifice to die protecting that which you value: If the value is great enough, you do not care to exist without it.

Jane Hirshfield

Near even a candle, the visible heat. So it is with a person in love.