Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

I would that I were low laid in my grave. I am not worth this coil that's made for me.

Edward Abbey

Epitaphs for a gravestone: 'Please: no hooliganism'; or 'Es prohibe se hace agua aqui'; or 'No comment'.

Houssaye Houssaye

The graves of those we have loved and lost distress and console as.

Alexander Smith

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

Jalal Talabani

He killed people to protect them, ... He put hundreds of thousands of people in mass graves to protect Iraq.

Aron Ralston

I stepped out of my grave and into my life again.

A. Johnson

We record the reflections, and the reflections will tell us where the graves are.

D. J. MacHale

If I weren't already dead, I'd have to kill myself just so I could roll over in my grave.

Pat Robertson

I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.

Carol Shields

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted...

Carlos Fuentes

Writing is a struggle against silence.

Carlos Castaneda

What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life.

Carlos Castaneda

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

Carlos Castaneda

Burn your bridges every 2 years.

Carlos Castaneda

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Carlos Castaneda

For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

C. S. Lewis

Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world.

Agnes de Mille

Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Jennifer Black

Much of the stores were actually marked down by a hefty 50%.

Nicholas Winton

Everyone thinks my story should be marked by heroism, but there was no risk to myself. You see, no-one in Prague at that time thought they were going to be at war with England.

Gabe Whittaker

We marked up better in the midfield today.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

My childhood was marked by a tension between privilege on the one hand and emotional dysfunction on the other.

Ryan Lawrence

That's his role. He makes sure we keep our shape and people stay marked up.

Julian Callow

They are marked by different traditions and they have a stronger Anglo-Saxon background.

Dan Popowics

They have marked time by working off the (buyout price) premium and some of the uncertainty.

Richard Thompson

They've got it marked where the rock piles are, where you're not supposed to get in with a boat. Otherwise, it's a real nice place to come.

Van Allen

The meet this past weekend really marked a point where we set new standards for our team at Hopkins.