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.

Carlos Ghosn

The low price of oil is a headwind to investments in alternative energy technologies, but it will not stop them.

Alan Thicke

Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the '90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together... something we don't spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.

Charles Dickens

A new heart for a New Year, always!

Charles Caleb Colton

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

Susan B. Anthony

We ask justice, we ask equality, we ask that all the civil and political rights that belong to citizens of the United States, be guaranteed to us and our daughters forever.

Diane von Furstenberg

Be the Woman You Want to Be....

Diane von Furstenberg

I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That's more important.

Diane von Furstenberg

You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.

David Mitchell

My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?

Carl Jung

It is only our deeds that reveal who we are.

William Shakespeare

A merry heart goes all the way, - A sad one tires inan hour.

Booker T. Washington

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.

Abraham Lincoln

I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it.

Confucius

Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills.

Marian Wright Edelman

Service is what life is all about.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Nothing important was ever achieved without someone taking a chance.

Jesse Jackson

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.

Jackie Kennedy

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.