Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean-Francois Cope

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.

Gloria Gaither

We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.

Glenn Turner

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

Gloria Gaynor

I will survive. As long as I know how to love, I know I'll be alive.

Giacomo Casanova

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

Gertrude Stein

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

Gertrude Stein

You have to know what you want to get it.

Gertrude Stein

You have to know what you want. And if it seems to take you off the track, don't hold back, because perhaps that is instinctively where you want to be. And if you hold back and try to be always where you have been before, you will go dry.

Gertrude Stein

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Gertrude Stein

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I have lived on a razors edge. So what if you fall off. I'd rather be doing something I wanted to do. I'd walk it again.

Georgia O'Keeffe

When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not.

Georgia O'Keeffe

You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

Georgia O'Keeffe

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

Georgia O'Keeffe

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Gerald R. Ford

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Take a journey into the things which you are carrying, the known- not into the unknown-into what you already know: your pleasures, your delights, your despairs, your sorrows. Take a journey into that, that is all you have.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Where there is love, do what you will, it will be right action. It will never bring conflict to one's life. In the flame of love, all fear is consumed.

Hunter S. Thompson

The first time I managed to pick up a basketball I knew I was destined to lead the UK to another National championship. ... Even now, so many years later, I still believe Kentucky will go undefeated in March & win everything.

Hunter S. Thompson

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

Hunter S. Thompson

Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.

Hunter S. Thompson

The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Hunter S. Thompson

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Hubert H. Humphrey

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Hubert H. Humphrey

This, then, is the test we must set for ourselves; not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

Howard Thurman

Ask yourself what makes you come alive.