Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frederick Douglass

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

Frederick Douglass

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

Frederick Douglass

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

Frederick Buechner

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

Frank Sinatra

The best revenge is massive success.

Frank Sinatra

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

Frank Sinatra

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.

George Eastman

You push the button, we do the rest.

George Eastman

What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are.

George Edward Woodberry

Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.

George Eliot

In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's.

George Eliot

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

Fernando Pessoa

To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor Because it blooms up above.

Fannie Hurst

Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to writecatapult them out of sleep and bed. For myself, I have never awakened to jot down an idea that was acceptable the following morning.

Faith Hill

I think beauty comes from within. If you're happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside.

Ezra Pound

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Ezra Pound

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

Ezra Pound

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

Ezra Pound

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

Ezra Taft Benson

When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

Eve Arnold

If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

Evel Knievel

Kids come up to me all the time and say, 'Once I was going through a really bad time, and I saw you crash and get up, and it inspired me.'

Eve Ensler

Real security is contemplating death, not pretending it doesn't exist.

Euripides

Soon all of you immortals Will be as dead as we are! Come on then, what are you waiting for? Have you run out of thunderbolts?

Euripides

Everyone asks if a man is rich, no one if he is good.

Euripides

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

Euripides

Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?

Francis of Assisi

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Francis of Assisi

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Francis Crick

God is a hacker, not an engineer

Francis Ford Coppola

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'

Francis Chan

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

Francis Bacon

They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.