Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baruch Spinoza

Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.

Baruch Spinoza

Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it...

Baruch Spinoza

If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.

Baruch Spinoza

A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life.

Baruch Spinoza

Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.

Baruch Spinoza

What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.

Baruch Spinoza

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

Barbara Pym

Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Barbara Sher

I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.

Barbara Sher

Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day....

Aulus Gellius

Truth is the daughter of time.

Auguste Rodin

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

Augusten Burroughs

Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I might already be ruined.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

History is full of surprises.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license number. In the state of Massachusetts, this is the same number as that used for Social Security, unless you object to such use. In THAT case, you are ASSIGNED a number and you reside forever more on the list of "weird people who don't give out their Social Security Number in Massachusetts."

Arthur Miller

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

Arthur Miller

Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Arthur Miller

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Arthur Miller

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Arthur Adamov

Everything happens as though I were only one of the particular existences of some great incomprehensible and central being.... Sometimes this great totality of life appears to me so dramatically beautiful that it plunges me into ecstasy. But more often it seems like a monstrous beast that penetrates and surpasses me and which is everywhere, within me and outside me.... And terror grips and envelops me more powerfully from moment to moment.... My only way out is to write, to make others aware of it, so as not to have to feel all of it alone, to get rid of however small a portion of it.

Waris Ahluwalia

'Life Aquatic' was the first movie I did, and it's been an incredible adventure since then.

Love is nothing in tennis, but in life it's everything.

Sathya Baba

Love is life for man and love is everything in this world.

LOVE Life and LIFE will Love you back

Sonny Rollins

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

Judith Thurman

Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette,

Garrison Keillor

Secret of life is to go through something harrowing that doesn't kill you...and to love one woman for the rest of your life.

So here he?d lost his owner, then his brother, and he was in this shelter. Yet, we could still see life in his eye.

Sean Hayes

So get accomplished what you want to get accomplished in your life. And in the intervals, do what you can to help other people.

She was hilarious. She was probably like the life of our wing.