Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matsuo Basho

There is nothing you can see that is not a Bashoflower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

Marie Curie

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Alexandra Adornetto

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often went unspoken and barely understood.

Alexander Woollcott

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

Alexander the Great

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Alexander Pushkin

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

Alexander Pushkin

Don't be sad, don't be angry, if life deceives you! Submit to your grief - your time for joy will come, believe me.

Abigail Adams

Great necessities call out great virtues.

Aberjhani

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

Aberjhani

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

Aberjhani

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

A. N. Wilson

If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage or cry, that's honey.

A. Philip Randolph

Freedom is never given; it is won.

Smokey Robinson

In fact, I wouldn't really call this a Gospel album, I call it more an inspirational album.

Smokey Robinson

Had I not come out with an inspirational CD, you perhaps would have never known that I feel like I feel, that all songs, all the music I've ever done is a gift from God.

Abbie Hoffman

The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.

Abbie Hoffman

Today is the first day of the rest of your life.

A. C. Benson

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.

A. C. Benson

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

A. A. Milne

Something feels funny. I must be thinking too hard.

A. A. Milne

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.

A. A. Milne

When you are pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen, brush the honey off your nose and spruce yourself up as best you can, so as to look Ready for Anything.

Aeschylus

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

Aeschylus

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

God ever works with those who work with will.

Aeschylus

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

Aeschylus

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Adrienne Rich

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

Adrienne Rich

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

Adrienne Rich

I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.

Adrienne Rich

Life on the planet is born of woman.

Adrienne Rich

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.