Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Martin

It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up, it rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes, withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution

Alan Shepard

I guess those of us who have been with NASA ... kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars.

Charles Dickens

There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.

Charles Caleb Colton

There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.

Charles Caleb Colton

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

Charles Caleb Colton

The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.

David Sedaris

It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters.

David Sedaris

I can't promise I'll never kill anyone again," he once said, strapping a refrigerator to his back. "It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters

Bryant Gumbel

Live your life with a purpose beyond yourself, and you'll find that the world is as bold and broad as the interests that brought you here...

Cher

Living your life the way you want to live it is the most important thing so if you have to pay small prices along the way, it's not important.

Brandon Lee

Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.

Demi Lovato

If you're living your life in fear, then you're just not living.

Bernhard Goetz

You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

David Viscott

You are the only one who has to live your life.

Bebe Moore Campbell

You live your life between your ears.

Janine Benyus

What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'

Cheryl Strayed

You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying.

Cheryl Strayed

What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

Cheryl Strayed

But if I could go back in time, I wouldn't do a single thing differently. What if all those things I did were the things that got me here?

Cheryl Strayed

What if what made me do all those things everyone thought I shouldn't have done was what also had got me here? What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?

Brendan Fraser

What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

Bob Saget

They say, Keep your enemies closer. But what if you live with them?

Charlie Sheen

The problem with prostitutes is, what if you actually like somebody you meet in that situation? Where do you go from there? What do you do?

Diana Gabaldon

Alright, all right," I said. "What if I tell you a story, instead?" Highlanders loved stories, and Jamie was no exception. "Oh, aye, " he said, sounding much happier. "What sort of story is it?