Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bret Harte

Crude at first [the short story] received a literary polish in the press, but its dominant quality remained. It was concise and condense, yet suggestive. It was delightfully extravagant - or a miracle of understatement

David Quammen

What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. We measure changes and those changes are all for the worse. We measure increasing disorder. Life is hard, says science, and constancy is the greatest of miracles.

Carl Sagan

A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?

Jandy Nelson

You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

Charles Spurgeon

The greatest, strongest, mightiest plea for the church of God in the world is the existence of the Spirit of God in its midst, and the works of the Spirit of God are the true evidences of Christianity. They say miracles are withdrawn, but the Holy Spirit is the standing miracle of the church of God to-day.

Cheryl Richardson

Affirmation plus action equals miracles.

Kurt Vonnegut

Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.

Kurt Vonnegut

What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.

Eckhart Tolle

Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.

Denis Waitley

Profit is the celebration of service.

Ana Gasteyer

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

Janet Evanovich

Calories don’t count if they’re connected to a celebration. Everyone knows this.

Henry Moore

I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of life and nature..

Inga Muscio

Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street, in stores, at celebrations, everywhere.

John W. Gardner

All of us celebrate our values in our behavior.

Rajneesh

Truth brings bliss, truth brings celebration.

Salli Richardson

I Will Follow is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.

Rajneesh

Have you not watched it yourself? Whenever you are total in something there is celebration.

Charlotte Bronte

While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!

Lucy Lawless

I am waiting for a sign that will indicate to me what meaning I must give to my life, but right now my existence is satisfactory.

Tim Jones

This really hits hard. Our reason for existence is to find people.

Jane Hirshfield

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Kurt Braunohler

So much of existence is so boring. To have little moments of stupidity is always welcome.

J. Paul Getty

I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.

Ayn Rand

It was the greatest sensation of existence: not to trust but to know.

Benjamin Disraeli

Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

Kat Morgan

If one were to strip a person of the layers of outward masks and illusions and place them only in their own skin they would be overwhelmed with fear of the unknown. Know thyself and feed upon it's very existence, everything that needs to be known is within.