Famous Quotes & Sayings

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and-we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster.

Gwyneth Paltrow

I've learned a lot about genuinely not caring what strangers think about me. It's very liberating.

Lois Lowry

Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often - there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable - so painless. It's what they've chosen.

Lois Lowry

For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.

Lloyd Alexander

We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the book that speaks most directly to us at a particular stage in our lives. And our lives change. We have other favorites that give us what we most need at that particular time. But we never lose the old favorites. They're always with us. We just sort of accumulate them.

Lynne Reid Banks

I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the U.K.

Ovid

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

Ovid

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

Piper Laurie

It took a long time, but I have learned that you just can't take anything you want out of life without putting something back in exchange.

Pope Francis

Do not forget, read a passage from the Gospel every day. It is the power that changes us, that transforms us, it changes life and it changes the heart.

Pierce Brosnan

When your partner gets cancer, then life changes. Your timetable and reference for your normal routines and the way you view life, all this changes. Because you're dealing with death. You're dealing with the possibility of death and dying.

Philip Yancey

Sociologists have a theory of the looking-glass self: You become what the most important person in your life (wife, father, boss, etc.) thinks you are. How would my life change if I truly believed the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees?

Jim Rohn

Any day we wish we can discipline ourselves to change it all. Any day we wish; we can open the book that will open our mind to new knowledge. Any day we wish; we can start a new activity. Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change. We can do it immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year.

Jim Rohn

Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change.

Jimmy Page

Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

Lindsey Vonn

Life changes very quickly in a very positive way if you let it.

Leo Tolstoy

The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience.

Leo Tolstoy

At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future.

Karl Pilkington

People say having kids is life changing, well that doesn't necessarily mean a good thing, does it? I could take one of my legs off. That would change my life.

Peter Capaldi

One of the problems with episodic television of any color is that everything has got to be okay at the end of the episode so it can start again next week. So the events that occur are rarely life-changing. But with film, you can say that this thing only happened once; this is a major thing that happened to these people.

Karen Kingsbury

Life changes, people come and go and seasons never last. Karen kingsbury # Leaving

Kate Morton

He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.

Karlie Kloss

If you believe in yourself and feel confident in yourself, you can do anything. I really believe that.

Julie Morgenstern

Each time we go through a major life change (getting married or divorced, moving, having a family, switching careers, starting a new business, going back to school), we experience a breakdown of our organizational systems. It's inevitable-we are dealing with a new set of realities-and it takes time to process the information and to actually see what there is to organize.

Julie Taymor

My God, it transformed me. My life changed.

John Piper

The Bible says he was raised not just after the blood-shedding, but by it. This means that what the death of Christ accomplished was so full and so prefect that the resurrection was the reward and vindication of Christ's achievement in death.

Martin Luther

I can't keep the sparrows from flying around my head, but I can keep them from making a nest in my hair.

Marilu Henner

I totally changed my life, changed my lifestyle.

Matt Groening

My life changed when I was able to not only get seated in nice restaurants, I was given free appetizers. That was like, "Oh, my God, I've arrived".

Marya Hornbacher

Hospitalizations in general are blurry. The days are the same, precisely the same. Nothing changes. Life melts down to a simple progression of meals. They become a way of life fairly quickly. You may welcome this transition. It may seem inevitable to you. You have been removed from the world. It is all right, in a way, because there is nothing so sure, so safe, as routine.

Mark Gorman

Not all dreamers are winners, but all winners are dreamers.

Paul Allen

That would be such a life-changing thing, for us all to know that there are other beings out there who we could potentially communicate with, or maybe we are listening to a signal that they transmitted hundreds of millennia ago.

Pat Benatar

People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.