Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Adrienne Rich

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Agatha Christie

One does what one can, not what one cannot.

Agatha Christie

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

Agatha Christie

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Agatha Christie

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Adriana Lima

I'm a teenager, but I'm independent - I have my own apartment, I have my own life. And I think I have learned more than any of those teenagers have in school. I learned to be responsible, leaving my family and coming here alone.

Helen Keller

Even if you have a problem, you don't need to be one.

Stephen Covey

Most of us spend too much time on what is urgent and not enough time on what is important.

Jane Addams

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

Jane Austen

Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.

Jane Austen

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

Jane Austen

Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.

Jane Austen

Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!