Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marina Abramovic

The only theatre I do is my own. Somehow, my life is the only life that I can play.

I have been stared at my whole life because of my height.

Sebastian Bach

I think if you can get to that point, exercising, when you really enjoy it, then you're pretty much set for life.

We are always getting ready to live, and never having time enough to live.

A life that moves to gracious ends Thro' troops of unrecording friends, A deedful life, a silent voice.

He promoted the education of the parish clergy and wrote: He seems to me a very foolish man, and very wretched, who will not increase his understanding while he is in the world, and ever wish and long to reach that endless life where all shall be made clear.

The brave pilot gave his life defending his faith, country and nation and joined other Jordanian martyrs who gave their lives for Jordan.

This was a bittersweet day. You work all your life for this, and then it's done.

Harrison Salisbury

What is in one's life stays there to the end of one's life.

Thomas Fuller

All doors open to courtesy.

Thomas Fuller

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

Bernie Sanders

Obviously one would hope one would have as much support as possible from all walks of life, i am a great fan of Elizabeth and as for what people do and why they don't do it, I am not going to speculate.

Bernie Sanders

I want some help on this. I'm being very honest, i want some ideas, as somebody who was arrested 50 years ago fighting for Civil Rights trying to desegregate schools in Chicago, who spent his whole life fighting against racism, I want your ideas. What do you think we can do? What can we do?

Bernie Sanders

Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people.

Anders Holm

To get what you want out of life, all you can really do is find out who you are, and do that.

To get some stuff going we really need to get through our regular season. So we got a lot of life left.

Eddie Trunk

To have survived in radio for 30 years is pretty remarkable. Even more remarkable is to have been able to do it in the same market I've lived in my whole life.

Stacey Snider

You can't do everything, at the same time, always, and forever. But if you look at your life and your career as a long, winding river, you can get to your destination.

Damian Lewis

You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.

You can make your resolution and keep it for a year but if you don't make a lifetime affirmation of change, you'll be back in the same boat.

Ali Hewson

You can live your life being scared of losing someone, and at the end of the day, if he is going to leave you, he'll leave you, and that's it.

(Wrestling) teaches you nothing comes easy. Nothing in life comes easy, so you have to work at it.

Stephen Jay Gould

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

Stephen Jay Gould

Among people I have met, the few whom I would term “great” all share a kind of unquestioned, fierce dedication; an utter lack of doubt about the value of their activities (or at least an internal impulse that drives through any such angst); and above all, a capacity to work (or at least to be mentally alert for unexpected insights) at every available moment of every day of their lives.

Stephen Jay Gould

The history of life is a tale of decimation and later stabilization of few surviving anatomies, not a story of steady expansion and progress.

Stephen Jay Gould

Can I pay any higher tribute to a man [George Gaylord Simpson] than to state that his work both established a profession and sowed the seeds for its own revision? If Simpson had reached final truth, he either would have been a priest or would have chosen a dull profession. The history of life cannot be a dull profession.

Stephen Jay Gould

Life is short, and potential studies infinite. We have a much better chance of accomplishing something significant when we follow our passionate interests and work in areas of deepest personal meaning.

The rabbi had just said in his sermon that you never know, in one moment your life can change,

The opportunities are not there in your working life because you can't take the time off.

There is nothing of which men are so fond, and withal so careless, as life

Martha Stewart

there is no real help, no real program to rehabilitate, no programs to educate, no way to be prepared for life 'out there' where each person will ultimately find herself, many with no skills and no preparation for living.

D. H. Lawrence

There is no such thing as sin. There is only life and anti-life.

Sean Penn

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that.