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.

Jane Austen

that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)

William Shakespeare

Good things should be praised.

William Shakespeare

Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove.

Aristotle

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

C. S. Lewis

The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

Joe Girardi

I'm a pretty upbeat guy. I tend to throw a lot of praise around.

Max Winkler

If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

Arnold H. Glasow

Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.

Ben Jonson

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

Louis MacNeice

Democracy - or any improvement on it - will rest on the layman's right to criticize. His criticism will be often - very often - damn silly, but if, like Plato and the Fascists, we take away his right to criticize, we take away his right to appreciate.

Charles Spurgeon

Your damnation is your own election, not God’s.

Bing Crosby

He never contributed a damn thing to music. (on Elvis Presley)

Bill Walsh

We all know gifs are pronounced "jifs," right? Their creator says so, damn it!

Charles Spurgeon

If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.

Chris LeDoux

Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)

Bob Dylan

I’m in awe of McCartney. He’s about the only one that I am in awe of. He can do it all. And he’s never let up... He’s just so damn effortless.

Edward Young

Live now; be damn'd hereafter.

Lawrence Frank

We're just playing at a much different level now, we're much more secure with who we are. We're in a much different state, where we don't exhale. We belong. We're a damn good team.