Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Auster

But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

Juno Temple

I think film should be interactive. But at the same time, it's also great to go see a big popcorn movie and be taken to a complete fantasy world.

Julia Quinn

And if that weren't bad enough, the next sound he heard was a loud click. The damned woman had locked him out. She'd taken all the food and locked him out. "You'll pay for this!" he yelled at the door. "Do be quiet," came the muffled reply. "I'm eating.

Julia Quinn

Daniel held himself very still, waiting for the wave of jealousy that never came. He was furious with the man who’d taken advantage of her innocence, but he did not feel jealous. He did not need to be her first, he realized. He simply needed to be her last. Her only.

Kristin Hannah

It had been years since she question his fidelity, but he'd stepped on to the old fame track again, and that was where the road had taken them before. Infidelity could be forgiven, but forgetting it was impossible. Strangely, that wasn't what bothered her the most. What bothered her was that she didn't really care.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

Molly Ivins

Every two years, one of the most hotly contested elections in Texas is the poll taken among members of the capitol press corps to determine who are actually the ten stupidest members of the Legislature. Two years ago, there were thirty-seven official nominees and several write-ins.

Milton Friedman

It is taken for granted that workers should receive their pay partly in kind, in the form of medical care provided by the employer. How come? Why single out medical care? Surely food is no less essential to life than medical care. Why is it not at least as logical for workers to be required to buy their food at the company store as to be required to buy their medical care at the company store?

Ken Wilber

"Transcending the ego" thus actually means to transcend but include the ego in a deeper and higher embrace, first in the soul or deeper psychic, then with the Witness or primordial Self, then with each previous stage taken up, enfolded, included, and embraced in the radiance of One Taste. And that means we do not "get rid" of the small ego, but rahter, we inhabit it fully, live it with verve, use it as the necessary vehicle through which higher truths are communicated. Soul and Spirit include body, emotions, and mind; they do not erase them.

Ken Baumann

I started to write a series of fantasy novels when I was eleven. I have never taken anything artistic as seriously; since then, writing has felt like an attempt to get back there, to my bedroom, my maps, those races and languages and runes.

Keira Knightley

I've got a lot of experience with anorexia - my grandmother and great-grandmother suffered from it, and I had a lot of friends at school who suffered from it. I know it's not something to be taken lightly and I don't.

Katherine Paterson

As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.

Julian Bond

Working in a situation with men and women, and seeing women take on roles equal to the roles taken by men made you understand that, "Hey, these people can do things too." And I think it made me and other people in the movement realize that we're living in a community of equals. And that among those equals, they have equal rights. And we ought to respect their rights if they respected ours.

Julia Ward Howe

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
 all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

Julian Barnes

What is taken away is greater than the sum of what was there. This may not be mathematically possible; but it is emotionally possible.

Ken Kesey

For there is always a sanctuary more, a door that can never be forced, a last inviolable stronghold that can never be taken, whatever the attack; your vote can be taken, you name, you innards, or even your life, but that last stonghold can only be surrendered. And to surrender it for any reason other than love is to surrender love.

Keith Urban

I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!

Keith Olbermann

Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they're going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity.

Katrina Kaif

I've never made a plan for my life. I have just taken whatever opportunities have come and been very genuine with them.

Kristanna Loken

I would definitely like to have a family, and whether that's with a man or a woman doesn't really matter to me. I've already got my friend who's going to be the donor, so that's taken care of. Just give me a few years and we'll go from there.

Kitty Carlisle

I was taken to concerts when I was six, seven years old, and sat in a box throughout the whole evening.

Kirstie Alley

I have photographs taken of me at the time I was addicted, and thought I looked good. I see them today and realize my eyes were dead.

Kim Coates

I know people have tattooed my 'Sons of Anarchy' photos, they've painted them, on their bikes. I've seen a few of those, sent to me through friends, where they've actually taken my 8x10 Tig photo and put it right on their bike.

Kim Harrison

Wait until the sun sets tonight, and if we are both here to see it, then my heart will break knowing you are safe and yet not to be mine. If you are gone, then my heart will break knowing that God has taken you home...” Gordian Pierce

Kim Harrison

Boots and leather jackets were strewn on her bed, and what looked like a new knife set. She’d taken a class last winter and was dying to try them out legally on someone.

Kim Harrison

Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over the world.

Mark Twain

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

Mark Mothersbaugh

Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.

Marion Barry

I had my bad times. But the good news is that every time this has happened I've taken full responsibility for it. I don't try to duck it, I don't try to dodge it, I don't try to bullshit about it. Truth crushed to the ground will rise again. And that's what my life has been about.

Nikki Sanderson

I don't understand people who won't sign autographs or have pictures taken.

Nicole Scherzinger

It takes time to really understand your body shape and it's taken me years to know what I can and can't pull off.

Nicole Krauss

He wondered if what he had taken for the richness of silence was really the poverty of never being heard [...]. How could he have forgotten what he had always known: there is no match for the silence of God.

Nicola Formichetti

The dark side of social media is that, within seconds, anything can be blown out of proportion and taken out of context. And it's very difficult not to get swept up in it all.