Famous Quotes & Sayings

Agnes Repplier

We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

Charles Dickens

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will but learn.

Charles Simmons

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

Joel Diemond

The real history of the U.N. lies in the perceived failure of the League of Nations.

Susan B. Anthony

There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!

Susan B. Anthony

Failure is impossible.

Tom Hooper

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

Bryan Ferry

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

Carter G. Woodson

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

Brian Schweitzer

When he goes out to meet people, he doesn't come off real,

Charles de Lint

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

Jessica Biel

When I'm working and I eat healthily all week, then I give myself one day - usually Sunday - when I eat just what I want. You have to; otherwise, your mind goes a little nutso.

Uzo Aduba

I grew up in a very small town in Massachusetts, and it goes without saying that there weren't many Nigerian families in that town, and a lot of people couldn't say Uzoamaka.

Jimmy Swaggart

I don't appreciate a preacher who commits adultery and then goes out and blames me.

Bill Brewer

We want that little patch that goes on our (letter) jackets.

John Fredriksen

When the market goes to hell, it's more of an opportunity than a problem.

Janice Dickinson

I was Versace's muse, I was Valentino's muse, I was Alaia's muse, Lancetti's muse, Calvin Klein's, Halston's. I could go on and on.

Alan Paton

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

Mark Richardson

We want him to live the rest of his life in happiness and we want to be a part of his life as we possibly can. We love him very much.

Agnes Martin

What we really want to do is serve happiness. We want everyone to be happy, never unhappy even for a moment. We want the animals to be happy. The happiness of every living thing is what we want.

Agnes Martin

It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It's the most abstract of all art expression.

Agnes Repplier

The gospel of cheerfulness, I had almost said the gospel of amusement, is preached by people who lack experience to people who lack vitality. There is a vague impression that the world would be a good world if it were only happy, that it would be happy if it were amused, and that it would be amused if plenty of artificial recreation - that recreation for which we are now told every community stands responsible - were provided for its entertainment.

Agnes Repplier

The gayety of life, like the beauty and the moral worth of life, is a saving grace, which to ignore is folly, and to destroy is crime. There is no more than we need; there is barely enough to go round.

Agnes Repplier

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Charlotte Bronte

No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.

Charlotte Bronte

Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.

Charlotte Bronte

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Carlos Castaneda

Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has momentarily been interrupted by extraneous forces.

Carlos Castaneda

You say you need help. Help for what? You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.

C. S. Lewis

A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he’d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people) like a crutch which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

C. S. Lewis

And in truth (as I now see) I had the wish to put off my journey as long as I could. Not for any peril or labour it might cost; but because I could see nothing in the whole world for me to do once it was accomplished. AS long as this act lay before me, there was, as it were, some barrier between me and the dead desert which the rest of my life must be.

C. S. Lewis

Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

Alan Kay

Understanding- -like civilization, happiness, music, science and a host of other great endeavors--is not a state of being, but a manner of traveling. This great road has no final destination. The journey itself is the reward.

Charles de Lint

It's the questions we ask, the journey we take to get to where we are going that is more important than the actual answer.

Brian Cox

What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising.

David Mitchell

...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.

Carlos Beltran

I'm a family man. I just love being around my family.

C. S. Lewis

You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of anyone else I have read.

C. S. Lewis

Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that.

C. S. Lewis

It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain.

C. S. Lewis

It is no disparagement to the garden to say it will not fence and weed itself, nor prune its own fruit trees, nor roll and cut its own lawns...It will remain a garden only if someone does all these things to it...If you want to see the difference between [the garden's] contribution and the gardener's, put the commonest weed it grows side by side with his hoes rakes, shears, and a packet of weed killer; you have put beauty, energy, and fecundity beside dead, steril things. Just so, our 'decency and common sense' show grey and deathlike beside the geniality of love.

Agnes Smedley

Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won't hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!

Agnes Repplier

Love is a malady, the common symptoms of which are the same in all patients ...

Agnes Repplier

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

Aaron Stanford

Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

Carre Otis

Eating disorders, body dysmorphia and a general dissatisfaction with one's life and body seems to ail too many young people.

Carol Roth

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

Carol Kane

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

Carol Kane

That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.

Carol Leifer

They're all sources of material. What I love about what I do, the more you talk about your life, there are so many people who have similar experiences.

Carol Shields

I'm concerned about the unknowability of other people.

Carol Moseley Braun

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

Carol Moseley Braun

My parents were always philosophizing about how to bring about change. To me, people who didn't try to make the world a better place were strange.

Carlos Beltran

I don't want to be hiding from people. It would be difficult to be recognized everywhere, so that I couldn't do things ordinary people do.

Tina Ambani

There was a time when I could only relate to happy works. With time, my taste has evolved.

Alanis Morissette

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

John Winn

When you trace back so many incidences of weapons and violence, they do relate to bullying.

Chaka Khan

If we could just see how related we all are, how we're really all in the same place.

Kiesza

It wasn't until I wrote 'Hideaway' that I found the song I related to as an artist.

Tibby Johnston

Most stories are related to respect. So they know that we need to respect everything.

Anwar Robinson

Everything I do is music-related.

Edward Hirsch

Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves.

Ellen Wong

I wasn't able to relate to anyone on TV growing up, so I wanted to bring my own experiences to the screen.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Finally, two days ago, I succeeded - not on account of my hard efforts, but by the grace of the Lord. Like a sudden flash of lightning, the riddle was solved. I am unable to say what was the conducting thread that connected what I previously knew with what made my success possible.

Agnes Smedley

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.

Agnes Varda

I had flops, I had success.

Aaron Siskind

Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them.

Alan Thicke

If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.

Alan Kay

In success there's a tendency to keep on doing what you were doing.

Charlie Chaplin

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Charles Dunstone

If you look after the customers and look after the people who look after the customers, you should be successful.

Charles E. Wilson

There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.

Steve Squyres

We're not going to take any risks. It's a big crater in terms of diameter, but really shallow. It's nothing like Endurance.

Willis Reed

We would still have been here if we could have come to terms with the union.

Joe Mathis

We are already tapped out in terms of volunteers and staff.

Robert Kazinsky

There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

Jay Farrar

I don't view it in the terms of a comeback,

Jose Mourinho

The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession.

Andy Grammer

I don't really think in terms of goals.

Chelsea Leyland

I never dress appropriately in terms of comfort, but I wear what I'm feeling. I often to like to feel a little different from everyone else.

Jim Gillette

There are always improvements to be made, but in terms of the low-hanging fruit, that's gone.

Carlos Castaneda

You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small

Charles Caleb Colton

It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

Brian Weiss

All is love...All is love. With love comes understanding. With understanding comes patience. And then time stops. And everything is now.

Brian Cox

Deeper understanding confers that most precious thing - wonder.

David Shuster

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

David Sedaris

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

David Sedaris

I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.

David Koechner

What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict.

Carl Sagan

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy