Famous Quotes & Sayings

Euripides

Time will bring healing.

Euripides

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Euripides

Waste no tears over the griefs of yesterday.

Euripides

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Euripides

The wisest men follow their own direction.

Euripides

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

Euripides

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Euripides

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Ethel Barrymore

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

Ethel Barrymore

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

Ernest Dimnet

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

Ernest Dimnet

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Ernest Becker

The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

Cassandra Clare

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.

Cassandra Clare

One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

Carolyn Heilbrun

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

Caroline Knapp

When you quit drinking you stop waiting.

Carly Rae Jepsen

I don't have any desire to rebel and be something totally different from what I am.

Carly Rae Jepsen

The quick lesson that I learned is that none of the fame part is really real.

Carmelo Anthony

I can't palm a basketball.

Ewan McGregor

I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.

Ewan McGregor

Ultimately, you have to not worry about people thinking you should have played him differently. You're the one playing the part so it has to be yours.

Ewan McGregor

A lot of parents tell their children that if they want to be an actor, that's fine, but they should do something else first, so they've got something to fall back on. It doesn't work like that, as far as I'm concerned.

Evan Williams

User experience is everything. It always has been, but it's undervalued and underinvested in. If you don't know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board.

Evan Williams

The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.

Evangeline Lilly

Even if you're unhappy, just pretend that you're happy. Eventually, your smile will be contagious to yourself. I had to learn that, I used to think, I'm being fake, but you know what? Better to be fake and happy than real and miserable.

Gilda Radner

Motherhood . . . is an act of infinite optimism.

Gilda Radner

The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what happens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Hart Crane

One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment.

Hank Ketcham

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.