Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol Shields

Why should men be allowed to strut under the privilege of their life adventures, wearing them like a breast full of medals, while women went all gray and silent beneath the weight of theirs?

Carl Clinton Van Doren

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.

C. S. Lewis

But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian. Use?' replied Reepicheep. 'Use, Captain?' If you mean by filling our bellies or our purses, I confess it will be no use at all. So far as I know we did not set sail to look for things useful but to seek honour and adventures. And here is as great an adventure as I have ever heard of, and here, if we turn back, no little impeachment of all our honours.

Agnes Smedley

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

Agnes Martin

The adventurous state of mind is a high house... The joy of adventure is unaccountable. This is the attractiveness of artwork. It is adventurous, strenuous and joyful.

Stephen Colletti

My costar James Lafferty, and his little brother Stuart Lafferty, and another buddy of ours, Ian Shive, are working on this project called 'Generation Wild.' It's about getting people to realize that being outdoors is not scary - you can go on adventures like we do, in national parks, and practically in your own backyard.

Richard G. Scott

Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges, and burdens. We are immersed in a sea of persistent, worldly pressures that could destroy our happiness. Yet these very forces, if squarely faced, provide opportunity for tremendous personal growth and development. The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor.

Don Bluth

I'm also very pleased that we were able to include a full orchestrated score for Dragon's Lair 3D. The 40 different music pieces blend with the action to make you feel more a part of the whole adventure.

David Sarnoff

Whatever course you have chosen for yourself, it will not be a chore but an adventure if you bring to it a sense of the glory of striving.

Brent Weeks

Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.

Kurt Vonnegut

We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one.

Bill Nye

For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.

Bruce Lee

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.

Kurt Vonnegut

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.

Dalai Lama

The meaning of life is happiness.

Dalai Lama

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful.

Don DeLillo

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

Albert Camus

If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

My aim each day is to adore God more than anything else.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Each day is a little life.

Catherine McAuley

Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God.

Anton Corbijn

I've gotten used to not looking too far into the future; it's best when you can begin each day anew.

Albert Einstein

Anyone can be a genius, if they pick just one specific subject and study it diligently just 15 minutes each day.

Drew Brees

Each day, you get an ounce more confidence. When we're playing like we are, there's no reason not to.

Abraham Lincoln

I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came.

Duane G. Carey

So, we have to get up and get pumped up for each day.

Annie Dillard

Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time.