Famous Quotes & Sayings

Audre Lorde

I realize that if I wait until I am no longer afraid to act, write, speak, be, I'll be sending messages on a Ouija board, cryptic complaints from the other side

Audre Lorde

I am deliberate and afraid of nothing.

Audre Lorde

Our visions begin with our desires.

Audre Lorde

Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.

Audre Lorde

I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.

Audre Lorde

When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Audre Lorde

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Athol Fugard

Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

Arthur Rubinstein

...no formula for success [exists] except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings." "I accept life unconditionally. Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

Arthur Rubinstein

Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings

Arthur Rubinstein

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Arthur Rimbaud

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

Arthur Rimbaud

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

Arne Jacobsen

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

Arnold J. Toynbee

The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.

Arnold J. Toynbee

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Arnold J. Toynbee

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

Arnold Bennett

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

Arnold Bennett

The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.

Arnold Bennett

The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.

Arnold Palmer

I've drawn a lot of inspiration from people who have supported me, golfers who have helped me. If it wasn't for the game of golf I'd probably be mowing the greens back in Latrobe.

Arnold Palmer

Always make a total effort, even when the odds are against you.

Antony Jay

The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions.

Seth Godin

Life is like skiing. Just like skiing, the goal is not to get to the bottom of the hill. It's to have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.

Frederic Bastiat

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Derek Bok

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Derek Jeter

I go into every game thinking I'm going to be the hero. I have to, or I wouldn't enjoy it.

Derek Jeter

The longer you wait to decide what you want to do, the more time you're wasting. It's up to you to want something so badly that your passion shows through in your actions. Your actions, not your words, will do the shouting for you.

Denzel Washington

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.

Denzel Washington

Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.

Denise Levertov

Very few people really see things unless they've had someone in early life who made them look at things. And name them too. But the looking is primary, the focus.

Denise Levertov

But we have only begun to love the earth. We have only begun to imagine the fullness of life. How could we tire of hope?-so much is in bud.

Denis Waitley

Winning is beginning. And just by beginning, your game is half won.