(5419 quotes found)
“Have you ever felt like a phone call that's been disconnected?”
Shannen Doherty
“Great necessities call out great virtues.”
Abigail Adams
“Phrases and their actual meanings: "My teacher has never liked me." Expect a phone call before lunch from the teacher informing you that your child has been launching hot dogs by compressing them inside a small Thermos and then removing the lid quickly.”
Erma Bombeck
“Many people see technology as the problem behind the so-called digital divide. Others see it as the solution. Technology is neither. It must operate in conjunction with business, economic, political and social system.”
Carly Fiorina
“All sin tends to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is what is called damnation”
W. H. Auden
“In all ages hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“And nothing can we call our own but deathAnd that small model of the barren earthWhich serves as paste and cover to our bones.For God's sake, let us sit upon the groundAnd tell sad stories of the death of kings.”
William Shakespeare
“As far as I'm concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.”
Charles de Lint
“I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.”
Clarence Darrow
“The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wicked, of the wise upon the foolish.”
William Osler