Famous Quotes & Sayings

Octavian Paler

We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.

Octavian Paler

There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live ...

Naguib Mahfouz

Nothing records the effects of a sad life so graphically as the human body.

Alan Watts

What keeps us from happiness is our inability to fully inhabit the present

Chogyam Trungpa

There is something suspect about our inability to enjoy anything.

Brian Tracy

Economists say the inability to delay gratification is a primary predictor of economic failure in life.

Uday Kotak

A weaker currency is a national tariff. After we get a weaker currency, we have to take advantage of that. Or else, we will waste it once more in inflation and in the inability to raise competitiveness.

Bernie Siegel

The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves

Yuvraj Singh

Relationships survive on trust, and if that is broken at any point, it's pretty much the end of the relationship. Besides, inability to communicate leads to problems.

Ada Louise Huxtable

Embellishment is an irresistible and consuming impulse, going back to the beginnings of human history. ... Probably the strongest motivating force is the simplest: the inability of almost everyone to ever leave well enough alone.

Scott Wilson

I am cursed with the inability to sleep on planes - ever.

Ivo Daalder

He has become a symbol of our inability to solve the problems in the Balkans. We would like to get rid of him but at the same time we are not willing to take the kind of military and other measures it probably would take to get rid of him.

Carl Sagan

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

Judit Molnar

We are presenting the emptiness and mourning the Holocaust left behind.

Charles Spurgeon

You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.

Kat Morgan

Only within the word love truth enters. Within emptiness you become pregnant with what you are searching for.

James Marsh

There is a sense of emptiness when you finish any film because you're empty and you can't give anything more to it anymore.

Alan Dean Foster

An apex is always surrounded only by emptiness

Chris Hadfield

The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We do not pray for immortality, but only not to see our acts and all things stripped suddenly of all their meaning; for then it is the utter emptiness of everything reveals itself.

Bertrand Russell

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.