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.

Charles Caleb Colton

Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should rather be adduced as a proof of her sagacity, when she helps those who cannot help themselves.

Benjamin Haydon

The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.

Blaise Pascal

What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.

Sathya Baba

Since Divinity is enveloped by humanness you must endeavor to overcome the Maya (delusion) that hides it from your eyes.

Aristotle

When you feel yourself lacking something, send your thoughts towards your Intimate and search for the Divinity that lives within you.

Deepak Chopra

Everyone has a spark of divinity inside them. After all, we were created in the image of God.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine.

Baltasar Gracian

Not he that adorns but he that adores makes a divinity.

Deepak Chopra

True success is ... the experience of the miraculous. It is the unfolding of the divinity within us.

Charlotte Bronte

Alas! never had I loved him so well!

David Talbot

Expect URZ stock to perform well as mining begins at Nichols Ranch.

Campbell Newman

Well, something is happening in Queensland that is not happening anywhere else.

Jamie Redknapp

You've got to do it all, the physical as well as the skilful.

Charles Spurgeon

To reclaim the prodigal is well, but to save him from ever being a prodigal is better.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

I never prayed that I would make a putt. I prayed that I would react well if I missed.

Louis C. K.

When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.'

Elie Wiesel

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.

Calvin Trillin

Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.