Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Spurgeon

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Alan Watts

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way...

Charles Hazlewood

All roads for me lead back to Mozart. In his tragically short life, he breathed new life, fire and meaning into every form of music that existed in his time.

Benjamin Hoff

A saying from the area of Chinese medicine would be appropriate to mention here: "One disease, long life; no disease, short life." In other words, those who know what's wrong with them and take care of themselves accordingly will tend to live a lot longer than those who consider themselves perfectly happy and neglect their weakness. So, in that sense at least, a Weakness of some sort can do you a big favor, if you acknowledge that it's there.

Edith Schaeffer

We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

Elizabeth Bowen

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

Avicenna

I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A man must have grown old and lived long in order to see how short life is.

Benjamin Disraeli

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Carol Moseley Braun

I want to rebuild America.

Carlos Mencia

I'll know America is in bad shape when Cubans in Miami get in the water and swim back to Cuba.

Carlos Fuentes

What America does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is to understand others.

Willa Ford

We have said we intend to restore automotive profitability in North America by no later than 2008 and we remain committed to deliver on our promise.

Roger Wilkins

We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people.

Jeri Ballantine

We have neighbors from South America, the Middle East, India and four or five different Asian countries. It's really a great melting pot, and all the kids play with each other.

Brian Jeroloman

We have so many leaders. We're so prepared. Coach McMahon is the best coach in America. People who have been watching basketball saw they had some bumps in the road, too. There is no doubt in my mind. We're going to succeed.

Jim Sensenbrenner

Whenever we have had a need for a national security or public safety issue, Congress has always followed the recommendations of the White House, regardless of who is in control, giving them the resources to keep America safe and to enforce our laws.

Montel Williams

When you say shock value, the fact that we talk about what happened to a person... we talk about real things, we talk about real issues.

Brian P. Cleary

I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.

Buzz Bissinger

Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.

Florynce Kennedy

When a system of oppression has become institutionaliz ed it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive

Enya

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary.

Luke Evans

I stay away from Speedos. That would cause me absolutely unnecessary publicity.

Mahathir Mohamad

Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped.

Maimonides

In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary

Philippe Starck

Everything I have designed is absolutely unnecessary,

Peace Pilgrim

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens.