Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Drew Barrymore

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.

Drew Barrymore

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

Drew Barrymore

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.

Douglas MacArthur

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Donald Cargill

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

Don DeLillo

If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the margins, outside a central perception. You are the ghoul of literature. Lovely.

Don DeLillo

Mirrors and images. Or sex and love. These are two separate systems that we miserably try to link.

Dylan Thomas

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Adam Schiff

Some argue that recognition of the genocide has become even more problematic now, when the world is at war with terrorism and the United States cannot afford to offend the sensibility of our Turkish ally.

Adam Schiff

Winning the war on terrorism will also require a level of moral clarity that can provide a vision for struggling people and nations everywhere.

Adam Schiff

In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.

Adam Schiff

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

Abraham Pais

One of the absolute rules I learned in the war was, don't know anything you don't need to know, because if you ever get caught they will get it out of you.

Abraham Lincoln

Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?

Ani Difranco

Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them.

Ani Difranco

I sing sometimes for the war that I fight, 'Cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.