Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Watterson

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

Bill Watterson

I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

Bill Watterson

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

Bob Harper

Stop talking about tomorrow. You owe it to yourself to do whatever you can to live you can to live a better life today.

Monica Raymund

There is nothing more noble than putting yourself in the line of fire to save a life.

Michael Novak

If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that.

Little Richard

If I had my life to live over, I would want to be a man.

Lisa Vidal

I did a film called 'Victor' that I'm really proud of! It was a period piece and the true life story of Victor Torres. I play his mom, and it's a very moving film.

Life is a question without a standard answer.

When we went to Minnesota, I had 15 people I've never met before in my life come up to me and ask, 'So, this is Missy, eh?'

Anais Nin

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection

what he does every day in his life.

Edna Ferber

People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.

Edna Ferber

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

Edna Ferber

Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life has no friend ...

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain; Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink And rise and sink and rise and sink again; Love can not fill the thickened lung with breath, Nor clean the blood, nor set the fractured bone; Yet many a man is making friends with death Even as I speak, for lack of love alone.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow . . . Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you all through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed, Sharing-oh, worst of all things!-the same head?- And, when I feed myself, feeding you too?

Edgar Lee Masters

It takes life to love life.

Edgar Guest

Life is like a cocktail, made up for the most part of sweet things, and tinged with a dash of bitters. We must drain it to the dregs to get at the cherry, just as we must live a full and rounded life to know all its pleasures.

Benjamin Franklin

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

Benjamin Franklin

Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Benjamin Franklin

I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

Benjamin Franklin

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Benjamin Franklin

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

Benjamin Franklin

There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.

Benjamin Franklin

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

Benjamin Franklin

The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.

Benjamin Franklin

I have lived a long time, sir, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth - that God governs in the affairs of men.