Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Convert life into truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

How much of human life is lost in waiting.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost work, but the solidest things we can know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Live, let live, and help live

Sean Penn

That was madness. You're never going to bring one of those down with a handgun.

Scott Morrison

The way of awakening and freedom requires that we ask ourselves, with all of the earnestness, honesty, and humility at our command, just this one fundamental question: 'Am I willing to live this moment with as much attention and affection as possible, or am I going to do something else?'

Lily Tomlin

If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?

Lin Yutang

Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.

Lin Yutang

If man be sensible and one fine morning, while he is lying in bed, counts at the tips of his fingers how many things in this life truly will give him enjoyment, invariably he will find food is the first one.

Lin Yutang

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

Lin Yutang

The end of living is the true enjoyment of it.

Li Keqiang

Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts.

Les Claypool

Oh, welcome to this world of fools, of pink champagne and swimming pools, where all you have to lose is your virginity. Perhaps you'll have some fun tonight, just stick around and take a bite, of life. We don't need feebleness in this proximity.

Les Brown

All of us need to grow continuously in our lives.

Les Brown

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

Les Brown

The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.

Henry Reed

And the sooner the tea's out of the way, the sooner we can get out the gin, eh? (Private Life of Hilda Tablet)

And you, whiner, who wastes your timeDawdling over the remorseless earth,What evil, what unspeakable crimeHave you made your life worth?

And You Know You Should Be Glad: A True Story of Lifelong Friendship.

Mona Simpson

Even as a feminist, my whole life I'd been waiting for a man to love who could love me. For decades, I'd thought that man would be my father. When I was 25, I met that man, and he was my brother.

Brian Billick

Fault? For what? They said they got the player they wanted. We got the player we wanted, plus. Sounds like life turned out pretty good.

John Mellencamp

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

Kara Swisher

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'

The response that I've had from it tells me that it's worthy of a life after me. I think that it transcends generations.

Eli Broad

As the son of a union activist and a lifelong Democrat, I've always thought that privatizing our public schools is not the answer. We must strengthen public schools.

John Rhys-Davies

As I come towards the end of my life, you get to see things in a slightly different perspective.

At the end of the day, the quality of life is all we have, and it's just as important to that lobster, the quality of life that it lives - even if it's not as long - as the quality of your life.