Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kingsley

For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.

Charles Kingsley

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Charles Kingsley

The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.

Charles Kingsley

Life is too short for mean anxieties.

Charles Colson

Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.

Charles Darwin

It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.

Charles Darwin

From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can be classed in groups under groups. This classification is evidently not arbitrary like the grouping of stars in constellations.

Charles Atlas

Step by step and the thing is done.

Charles A. Beard

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

Alanis Morissette

Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you When you think everything's okay and everything's going right And life has a funny way of helping you out when You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up In your face

Alanis Morissette

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

Blake Edwards

Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.

Blaise Pascal

We never live, but we hope to live; and as we are always arranging to be happy, it must be that we never are so.

Blaise Pascal

Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world. Variant: Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Blaise Pascal

Fuller believed human societies would soon rely mainly on renewable sources of energy, such as solar- and wind-derived electricity,. envisioned an age of "universal education and sustenance of all humanity". "The heart has reasons that reason does not understand."

Blaise Pascal

The heart has its reasons, which Reason does not know. We feel it in a thousand things. It is the heart which feels God, and not Reason. This, then, is perfect faith: God felt in the heart.

Blaise Pascal

When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours. ...such community of intellect that we have with him necessarily inclines the heart to love.

Blaise Pascal

The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

Blaise Pascal

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

Blaise Pascal

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

Billie Jean King

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.

Billie Jean King

Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.

Bill Hybels

Nothing on earth has greater potential to change lives and carry out His kingdom work in your community, than your local church.There's nothing like the local church when it's working right. Its beauty is indescribable. Its power is breathtaking. Its potential is unlimited. No other organization on earth is like the church. Nothing even comes close.

Bill Hicks

It's really weird how your life changes. Tonight I'm drinking water. Four years ago? Opium. Night and day, you know?

Kesha

I write about stuff that happens to me, so I try to live as interesting a life as possible.

Kevin Kline

I don't like talking about myself. I don't like talking about my personal life.

Kathleen Blanco

I care for you. I want to make life safer and better for you.

Jason Ritter

I'm a bit too much of a people pleaser and that can be frustrating for people in your life.

Jeremy Irons

Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be.

Jane Pauley

'Your Life Calling' is the first thing in my long career I've ever actually invented. It is my entrepreneurial debut.

Rosamund Pike

When you're about to get married, and then you're not, it's all a big shock. You think, 'Well, okay, so I'm never going to lead a totally conventional life now.'

Chris Crutcher

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

Chris Evert

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.