Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julie Taymor

My God, it transformed me. My life changed.

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.

Frank Langella

Theres a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a mans change of 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.

Simon Sinek

Life changes for the better when we realize that we don't have to know everything and we don't have to pretend we do.

Randy Alcorn

Tolstoy said, 'The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed either by a change of life or by a change of conscience.' Many of us have elected to adjust our consciences rather than our lives. Our powers of rationalization are unlimited. They allow us to live in luxury and indifference while others, whom we could help if we chose to, starve and go to hell.

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.

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.

Sophia Amoruso

The energy you'll expend focusing on someone else's life is better spent working on your own. Just be your own idol.

Steven Hill

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

Victor Cousin

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

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.

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?

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.

Stephen Levine

Death is just a change in lifestyles.

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.

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.

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.

Stephanie Mills

A deep analysis judges technology morally - from its conception and intention to the totality of its consequences, knowing that all "raw materials" once were someone's home or sustenance, that extraction and manufacture at industrial scale reduce landscapes and their human beings, that distribution, employment, and disposal of technologies change lives in unpredictable ways.

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.

William Butler Yeats

Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

Yo-Yo Ma

As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

Warren G. Bennis

In life, change is inevitable. In business, change is vital.