Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A confession has to be part of your new life.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

Luc de Clapiers

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

Luc de Clapiers

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

Luc de Clapiers

To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.

Louis Nizer

A father is a thousand schoolmasters.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

What kind of life have you lived little one? Where fair has anything to do with it? Life and death just are. Fair has nothing to do with it.

Shay Carl

If life is worth living then it's worth recording.

Sheikh Hasina

Side by side with the middlemen, punishment will have to be given against those who are moving from the country in illegal way, they are tainting the image of the country along with pushing their life into a danger.

Sheena Easton

We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.

Sherwood Anderson

There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by forces outside and inside ourselves.

Sherwood Anderson

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.

Sheryl Crow

I try to conduct my life with a little levity.

Sheryl Crow

Life's so full that you just take it one day at a time.

Terry Pratchett

If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story.

Terence

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.

Niki Taylor

My greatest life lesson has been that life can change in a second. This is why it's important to always live your best possible life and to do what you can for others.

Nicolas Roeg

In life, we all learn from everyone.

If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.

Nicolas Chamfort

Man reaches each stage of his life as a novice.

Nicolas Chamfort

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy.

Nicolas Chamfort

In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.

Nicolas Chamfort

The most wasted day of all is that on which we have not laughed.

Nick Clegg

I totally rule out any arrangements with the SNP - in the same way I rule out any arrangements with UKIP - because there is no meeting point for me with one party that basically wants to pull our country to bits and another party that wants us to pull out of the EU, i would never recommend to the Liberal Democrats that we help establish a government which is basically on a life support system, where Alex Salmond could pull the plug any time he wants.

Nicholson Baker

You almost believe that you will never come to the end of a roll of tape; and when you do, there is a feeling, nearly, though very briefly, of shock and grief.

Nora Ephron

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

Nora Ephron

Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

Nora Roberts

Wouldn't it be nice if everything balanced in the world? If right came out on top and wrong was punished. It sure would be simple.

Nora Roberts

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

Nikolai Gogol

I am who I am and that's who I am

Nikos Kazantzakis

What, then is our duty? It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger-fraught ascent toward salvation.