Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Cumming

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.

Abraham Lincoln

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

Arthur Koestler

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Arthur Miller

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

Aristotle

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

Albert Schweitzer

Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

David Berkowitz

We must realize that we have a choice. We are responsible for our own good time... When you do something you are proud of, dwell on it a little, praise yourself for it, relish the experience, take it in.

Clarence Darrow

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

Albert Schweitzer

There is so much coldness because we do not dare to be as cordial as we are.

Corita Kent

In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

Corita Kent

To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.

Edmund Burke

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

Brian Tracy

Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

Pablo Neruda

What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?

James Jeans

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

Sean Pertwee

I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.

Adlai Stevenson

Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

Thomas More

What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

Thomas E. Mann

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

Roger Caras

It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.

Richard M. Nixon

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Ugo Betti

Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.

Robin Williams

Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!

Robin Williams

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

Samuel Johnson

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Samuel Butler

History is a bucket of ashes.

Herbie Hancock

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

Henry David Thoreau

find your eternity in each moment