Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ray Charles

I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

Tom DeLay

Guns have little or nothing to do with juvenile violence. The causes of youth violence are working parents who put their kids into daycare, the teaching of evolution in the schools, and working mothers who take birth control pills.

Solange Knowles

It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.

Sloane Crosley

Cohabitation seems a greater leap in cities because it's all the harder to extract oneself if things turn sour. It's what keeps otherwise functional adults living with their mothers.

Rajneesh

Relaxation is the point. And if you can relax with an enlightened person his enlightenment will start penetrating you, because when you are relaxed you become porous. When you are tense you are closed; when you relax he will enter

Rajneesh

Let-go means no competition, no struggle, no fight... just relaxing with existence, wherever it leads. Not trying to control your future, not trying to control consequences, but allowing them to happen... not even thinking about them. Let-go is in the present; consequences are tomorrow. And let-go is such a delightful experience, a total relaxation, a deep synchronicity with existence

Soichiro Honda

Success represents the 1% of your work which results from the 99% that is called failure.

Sojourner Truth

I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star.

Theodore Roosevelt

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Marcus Buckingham

You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.

Marcus Buckingham

Everyone can probably do at least one thing better than ten thousand other people.

Marcus Buckingham

True individuality can be lonely.

Marcus Buckingham

We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.

Marcus Buckingham

Your strongest life is built through a continuous practice of designing moment by moment.

Marcus Buckingham

The difference between a pebble and a mountain lies in whom you ask to move it.

Kevin Systrom

I think not focusing on money makes you sane, because in the long run it can probably drive you crazy.

Michael Bolton

Dr. King is so inspiring, so impressive, so moving as a human being.

Melissa McCarthy

When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone.

Melinda Gates

Vaccines are a miracle cure. Eight out of 10 children are getting vaccines.

Melinda Gates

If you invest in a girl or a woman, you are investing in everybody else.

Ray Bradbury

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Randy Pausch

Don't bail; the best pieces of gold are at the bottom of the barrel of crap.

Randy Pausch

Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you.

Henry A. Kissinger

If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

Helen Hunt Jackson

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

Henry David Thoreau

Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home. There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played.

Henry David Thoreau

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Henry David Thoreau

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

Henry Ford

There are two extremes to be avoided: one is the attitude of contempt toward education, the other is the tragic snobbery of assuming that marching through an educational system is a sure cure for ignorance and mediocrity.

Henry Ford

I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was twenty-six. Religion offered nothing to the point. Even work could not give me complete satisfaction. Work is futile if we cannot utilize the experience we collect in one life in the next. When I discovered reincarnation . . . time was no longer limited. I was no longer a slave to the hands of the clock. . . . I would like to communicate to others the calmness that the long view of life gives to us.

Mary Stuart Masterson

In this case they're doctors. But having passion for your work and to take risks in order to better human kind. That's a pretty big theme. It's pretty inspiring.

Patricia Hewitt

And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

Pablo Neruda

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.