Famous Quotes & Sayings

Puff Daddy

Initiative is key. Anybody who wants to be somebody is going to work as hard as they can to fulfill that dream.

Puff Daddy

Don't be afraid to close your eyes and dream, but then open your eyes and see

Pythagoras

He buries gold who hides the truth.

Pythagoras

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

Pythagoras

Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.

Pythagoras

The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.

Pythagoras

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

Pythagoras

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

Pythagoras

Silence is better than unmeaning words.

Queen Latifah

I don't care how much money you have, free stuff is always a good thing.

Queen Latifah

Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.

Plato

The true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things.

Plato

How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?

Madame de Stael

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

Haruki Murakami

Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer and the tortured, the forcer and the forced. This sense of inner-directed self-sufficiency was what she wanted most of all. It gave her deep solace.

Haruki Murakami

Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.

Haruki Murakami

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Only assholes do that.

Haruki Murakami

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

Haruki Murakami

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.

Hans Selye

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

Hamilton Jordan

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

Hanan Ashrawi

We cannot rely upon the silenced to tell us they are suffering.

Han Suyin

There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness.

Gustave Flaubert

[The artist] is like a pump; he has inside him a great pipe that reaches down into the entrails of things, the deepest layers. He sucks up what was lying there below, dim and unnoticed, and brings it in great jets to the sunlight.

Gustave Flaubert

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Gustave Flaubert

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Gustave Flaubert

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

Gustave Flaubert

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

Gustave Flaubert

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Gustave Flaubert

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Gustave Flaubert

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

Grantland Rice

When One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.

Greg Behrendt

Busy' is another word for 'asshole'. 'Asshole' is another word for the guy you're dating.