Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tana French

I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.

Tammin Sursok

In Australia, there is a very famous show called 'Home and Away.' I was cast on that at 15. The day I started filming, my life changed.

Tom Robbins

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.

Tony Hawk

Big decisions in my life have always come easy and are made without hesitation. It is easier for me to make a life-changing decision than to decide what to get for dessert.

Steven Hill

Extreme Makeover... they help people that are uncomfortable in their own skin. They really change lives.

Stella McCartney

Everyone can do simple things to make a difference, and every little bit really does count.

Spencer Johnson

I was taking myself very seriously when I was going through life changes. And I realized that I needed to laugh at myself, particularly at my mistakes.

Richard Grossman

I think that life is incredibly violent and that individual people are incredibly violent on one level or another. I don't try to change life to suit my writing; in a certain way I'm a naturalist of the nineteenth century school.

Sylvester Stallone

If it's not broken, break it. That's how new discoveries are made. That's why everything that changes life is called a breakthrough.

Rick Warren

A life that is never willing to change is a great tragedy - a wasted life. Change is a necessary part of a growing life, and we need change in order to remain fresh and to keep progressing.

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?

Robert Foster Bennett

If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.

Robert Fulghum

Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as you begun.

Thomas S. Monson

The Book of Mormon changes lives.

Robert H. Schuller

I am humanly unable to correct my negative self-image until I encounter a life-changing experience with non-judgmental love bestowed upon me by a Person whom I admire so much that to be unconditionally accepted by Him is to be born again.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I don't judge others. I say if you feel good with what you're doing, let your freak flag fly.

Sandra Bullock

My life changes dramatically every time I get up out of bed. After my proposal life changed in that I wasn't asked to change. I always thought that marriage meant someone was going to ask you to stop being who you were. And I met someone who not only wants me to be who I am but likes it. So, my life changed in that my views towards marriage stopped being morbid. I found I was ready to be a good partner where I don't think I was a very good partner to people before. I stepped up my game.

Sandra Oh

When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know?

Will Smith

You might be [outshining me in many ways]. But if we get on a treadmill, there are two things: you're getting off first or I'm going to die. It's that simple, right?

Samuel L. Jackson

Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.

Victor Cousin

In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.

James C. Collins

You must ask, "What do we mean by great results?" Your goals don't have to be quantifiable, but they do have to be describable. Some leaders try to insist, "The only acceptable goals are measurable," but that's actually an undisciplined statement. Lots of goals-beauty, quality, life change, love-are worthy but not quantifiable. But you do have to be able to tell if you're making progress.

Jackie Kennedy

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.

Christopher Heyerdahl

Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.

Jeanette Winterson

I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.

Jeffery Deaver

And life changes. Maybe just a little, maybe a lot. And at some point, it just isn't worth the fight to fix it.

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.

Eugene H. Peterson

Pity can be nearsighted and condescending; shared suffering can be dignifying and life-changing.