Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

Fred Rogers

All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.

Madonna Ciccone

Life and love inspire me. I think reinventing yourself is vital to your survival as an artist and a human being. I know it’s cliché to say about me at this point, but it’s true. My curiosity definitely is the driving force in my life and career. When you stop learning, engaging and growing, you’re dead.

Lucille Ball

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

Helen Keller

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

Cassandra Clare

I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but... I promise you, the right man won't care.

Gary Numan

I'll be the in to your sane.

Jack Kerouac

Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to the shop. That wainscot to the carpenter, But my mind my tranquil and eternal Mind Return it to whom?

George Bernard Shaw

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Frederick William Robertson

Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of attachment, there are beings to gratify that love. If we thirst for life and love eternal, it is likely that there are an eternal life and an eternal love to satisfy that craving.

Jerry Pournelle

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

Miguel de Cervantes

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Sidney Sheldon

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

Rajneesh

I love, because my love is not dependent on the object of love. My love is dependent on my state of being. So whether the other person changes, becomes different, friend turns into a foe, does not matter, because my love was never dependent on the other person. My love is my state of being. I simply love.

Rajneesh

Respect Life and Life will respect You. Love Life and Love will shower Blessings on You.

Plato

Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

Laura Miller

Nonfiction brought me back to earth and sobered me up whenever it seemed like I'd become too drunk on the lives and loves of imaginary people, but that doesn't mean it was any less thrilling or transporting, although it was often more illuminating.

Neil Gaiman

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

Mary Alice

Trust is a fragile thing. Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom. But once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover. Of course the truth is, we never know who we can trust. Those we're closest to can betray us, and total strangers can come to our rescue. In the end, most people decide to trust only themselves. It really is the simplest way to keep from getting burned.

Melody Beattie

When you wonder what is coming, tell yourself the best is coming, the very best life and love have to offer, the best God and His universe have to send. Then open your hands to receive it. It's yours.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You know, the thing about life and love is that they are both ever-changing while people seldom are. (Acheron)

Mary Roberts Rinehart

The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

Natalie Babbitt

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

Libba Bray

A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee.

Henry David Thoreau

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

Louis Sachar

I'm not saying it's going to be easy. Nothing in life is easy. But that's no reason to give up. You'll be surprised what you can accomplish if you set your mind to it.After all, you only have one life, so you should try to make the most of it.

Lord Byron

They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money.

Michelangelo

If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.

George R. R. Martin

Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

Herman Melville

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.

James C. Collins

Most people will look back and realize they did not have a great life because it's just so easy to settle for a good life.

James D. Watson

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

Jean de La Fontaine

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.