Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?

Anton Corbijn

I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed.

Bill Vaughan

Walking uplifts the spirit. Breathe out the poisons of tension, stress, and worry; breathe in the power of God. Send forth little silent prayers of goodwill toward those you meet. Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head. Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.

Charles Darwin

We may confidently come to the conclusion, that the forces which slowly and by little starts uplift continents, and that those which at successive periods pour forth volcanic matter from open orifices, are identical.

Ayn Rand

When she had gone upstairs, he walked to a window and stood looking up at the sky. His head thrown back, he felt the pull of his throat muscles and he wondered whether the peculiar solemnity of looking at the sky comes, not from what one contemplates, but from that uplift of one's head.

C. S. Lewis

If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles.

Deepak Chopra

Everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are.

Deepak Chopra

Where nature goes to create stars, galaxies, quarks and leptons, you and I also go to create ourselves.

Deepak Chopra

See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.

Bergen Evans

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Blaise Pascal

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

Chris Crutcher

I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.

Arthur Ashe

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

Benjamin Disraeli

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

Calvin Coolidge

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

Elbert Hubbard

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

Albert Einstein

So long as there are men, there will be wars.

Danica Patrick

On Memorial Day, I was out floating on Lake Norman and came across Denny Hamlin. We struck up a conversation, and one of the first things we were talking about was how much it helped him when he started racing the Cup car and how much it helped his Nationwide program.

Master Kwon

Relationships flourish, when individuality,freedom and growth are respected.

Conan Stevens

Success is the freedom to do what you want, with whom you want, when you want, wherever you want.

Chen Hong

Our forefathers gave their lives for peace and freedom. Our generation has the responsibility to treasure what we have today.

Scott Walker

Maybe in the old days, Sully gets clutched and grabbed there and held down. Now he can spin around three times around three different guys. It gives a guy like that more freedom to move.

Dave Anderson

Many Americans don't have an understanding of the freedoms they regularly enjoy.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

Bhagat Singh

Revolution is an inalienable right of mankind. Freedom is an imperishable birth right of all. Labor is the real sustainer of society, the sovereignty of the ultimate destiny of the workers.

Benjamin Rush

Without Virtue there can be no liberty

Mel Martinez

I will always vote on the side of freedom and our right to keep and bear arms.