Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Charles Stanley

In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.

David Brooks

Memo to young journalists: Democratic victories are always ascribed to hope; Republican ones to rage.

David Millar

The manner in which one loses the battle can sometimes outshine the victory.

David Mitchell

Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.

Charles Spurgeon

Victory needs conflict as its preface.

William Shakespeare

I came, saw, and overcame.

Edmund Burke

I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.

Brian Littrell

In every victory, Let it be said of me...My source of strength, My source of hope... Is Christ alone.

Brian Michael Bendis

If you like Powers, you'll love The Victories!

Carter G. Woodson

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

Alan Watts

For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

Chris Bosh

Everyone talks about success, but what happens before? There's always something you have to overcome.

Chogyam Trungpa

There is more to fearlessness than merely having overcome fear... This state of being is not dependent on any external circumstances. It is individual dignity... that comes from being what we are, right now.

Britt Ekland

Fame overcomes everything.

Bernard Baruch

You can overcome anything if you don't bellyache.

Bill Walsh

I've observed that if individuals who prevail in a highly competitive environment have any one thing in common besides success, it is failure—and their ability to overcome it.

Ariel Winter

I love when I get stories of young women that have overcome things such as birth defects that they've been hated on for or even just their own body confidence stories.

Anthony Trollope

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.