Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

Alan Paton

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

Bryan Adams

Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances.

David Hockney

Paint something every day.

Benjamin Franklin

He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Fear is a habit; I am not afraid.

Diane Ackerman

Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.

Bertrand Piccard

Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits.

Charles Portis

Lookin' back is a bad habit.

Austin O'Malley

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.

Alice James

What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life.

Isaac Mayer Wise

In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.

Jay Anderson

The volume of traffic has reached a proportion that?s scary.

Mike Dunlap

Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Society can only be happy and free in proportion as it is virtuous.

Leonardo da Vinci

Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished.

Khalil Gibran

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

Mahatma Gandhi

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

T. J. Miller

I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

Kurt Braunohler

I was writing this really long joke about the smell of poop, and I was like, 'What am I doing with my life?' I started to think about why I was a comedian, and then I came up with a reason for existence, which is: inserting absurdity or stupidity into strangers' lives in order to make the world a better place.

T. J. Miller

Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.

Robert Lantos

It is a sad testament of the absurdity of the ratings code and the completely illogical moral criteria that provide the underpinning for it, where any form of violence is perfectly acceptable for kids but sexuality continues to be the ultimate taboo,

Peter Sarsgaard

I get so happy to see someone like Jodie descend into absurdity and be human.

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no absurdity so obvious that it cannot be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to impose it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity

Adlai E. Stevenson

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often become the height of wisdom in another

Baruch Spinoza

He who seeks equality between unequals seeks an absurdity.

Anne Lamott

When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again.