Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marshall McLuhan

The future of work consists of learning a living.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

The Goddess has a fourth face. It is secret, and you should prey, as I do, as I do Igraine, that Morgause will never wear that face.

Margery Allingham

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

Oswald Chambers

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

Oswald Chambers

Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

Oswald Chambers

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Oswald Chambers

Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.

Oswald Chambers

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours.

Paul Harvey

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Paul Hawken

If there is to be an ecologically sound society, it will have to come the grass roots up, not from the top down.

Paul Hawken

Ralph Waldo Emerson once asked what we would do if the stars only came out once every thousand years. No one would sleep that night, of course. The world would become religious overnight. We would be ecstatic, delirious, made rapturous by the glory of God. Instead the stars come out every night, and we watch television.

Paul Anka

And now the end is near And so I face the final curtain, My friends, I'll say it clear, I'll state my case of which I'm certain. I've lived a life that's full, I've travelled each and evr'y highway And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

Paul Arden

Don't give a speech. Put on a show.

Paul Arden

Do not put cleverness in front of the communication.

Patrick J. Kennedy

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

Patrick Henry

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

Patrick Henry

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave.

Just get out of the way. Just GO. Forget the corporate rules where you have to sit and meet. Forget that. What's the goal? OK. How you going to get there? Now let's charge! GO!

Pat Benatar

We can't afford to be innocent, stand up and face the enemy. It's a do or die situation, we will be invincible.

Pat Conroy

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

Joseph Simmons

Dreams come a couple sizes too big so you can grow into them.

Joseph Stalin

I believe in one thing only, the power of human will.

Leontyne Price

Stay up and really burn the midnight oil. There are no compromises.

Leontyne Price

You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave you.

Nelly

If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all this time on this earth?

Neil Strauss

Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it's a relationship, a business or a hobby.

Rachel Roy

Design the life you want to live.

Rachel McAdams

I use filming as an excuse to take classes. I got my certification in sailing for 'Wedding Crashers,' and now I can handle a 26-foot boat. I played a seamstress once, so I took sewing classes. I love dipping into these other lives.

R. Lee Ermey

We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

R. Lee Ermey

Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates.

Nia Vardalos

I would rather be called funny than pretty.

Nia Vardalos

If the standard route for creating a family had worked for me, I wouldn't have met this child. I needed to know her. I needed to be her mother. She is, in every way my daughter.