Famous Quotes & Sayings

Magic Johnson

For me, it always goes back to something I learned in basketball. There's winning and there's losing, and in life you have to know they both will happen. But what's never been acceptable to me is quitting.

Maimonides

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

Mahatma Gandhi

Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

Mahatma Gandhi

I do not want a kingdom, or heaven; what I want is to remove the trouble of the oppressed, the poor, and the needy.

Mahatma Gandhi

I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future. . . without having to wait for others to do so.

Mahatma Gandhi

Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders progress.

Francois Hollande

Terrorism fuels itself from all kinds of illicit trafficking: drugs, weapons, human beings.

Jules Renard

To think is not enough, you must think of something.

Julius Charles Hare

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.

Otto von Bismarck

I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

Kanye West

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

Paul Theroux

I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.

Paul Kagame

Technology has brought many possibilities in education and health that are key to women.

Francois Hollande

There cannot be prosperity without security.

Haruki Murakami

The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time.

Haruki Murakami

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Gustav Mahler

I am hitting my head against the walls, but the walls are giving way.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.

John Cleese

You have to create boundaries of space and then you have to create boundaries of time.

M. Scott Peck

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the making of action in spite of fear.

John Boehner

Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring.

Maxine Hong Kingston

The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have in common are the words at our backs. The idioms for revenge are 'report a crime' and 'report to five families.' The reporting is the vengeance-not the beheading, not the gutting, but the words.

Maya Angelou

The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story...

Maya Angelou

I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.

Maya Angelou

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

Maurice Ravel

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

Marilynne Robinson

Fact explains nothing. On the contrary, it is fact that requires explanation.

Marilynne Robinson

There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient

Thomas Jefferson

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

Robert Henri

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Eckhart Tolle

The primary purpose of life is in being in the NOW.

Hoda Kotb

There are two types of people: The ones who give you 50 reasons it can't be done ... and the ones who just do it.