Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tea Leoni

Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.

Mo Ibrahim

Many Africans are used to a life where they get up in the morning and don't know what they're going to do that day.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The one thing that matters is the effort.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

Beilby Porteus

Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.

Becca Fitzpatrick

If I had known things would turn out this way, I would have trained harder. I would have learned to take care of myself. But I guess that's the point, isn't it? You never know what you're going to have to face, so you'd better be prepared.

Becca Fitzpatrick

Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.

. . . we never worked for white people in their homes. No, sir, not even once! That is one of the accomplishments in my life of which I am the most proud, yes, sir!

Jeff Tedford

We need a little life in the kickoff returns,

Bill Shankly

My life is my work. My work is my life

Bill Crawford

Want to change your experience of life? Change the problem to the practice field.

Bill Cosby

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Bill Cosby

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

C. S. Lewis

Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.

C. S. Lewis

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

C. S. Lewis

The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own.

C. S. Lewis

We seek an enlargement of our being. We want to be more than ourselves . . . We want to see with other eyes, to imagine with other imaginations, to feel with other hearts, as well as with our own . . . We demand windows.

C. S. Lewis

I have discovered that the people who believe most strongly in the next life do the most good in the present one.

Cecelia Ahern

Hundreds of butts in piles on the ground to mark the spot, their lives sucked out of them by their users in panicked distressed frenzy, their souls floating around the insides of lungs while their outsides were dropped, stamped on and deserted

Cecelia Ahern

Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years. We grab a few quick minutes in our busy day to have a coffee break. We rush back to our desks, we watch the clock, we live by appointments. And yet your time eventually runs out and you wonder in your heart of hearts if those seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades were being spent the best way they possibly could. In other words, if you could change anything, would you?

Cecelia Ahern

That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

Carrie Brownstein

Practice. Learn and then unlearn - that's the trick in finding your own style of playing. You can't merely emulate, you have to innovate, or at the very least create your own path into the process.

Carrie Brownstein

I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic.

Carrie Brownstein

I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.

Carrie Fisher

My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.

Carl Rogers

We in the West seem to have made a fetish out of complete individual self-sufficiency, of not needing help, of being completely private except in a very few selected relationships.

Carl Rogers

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.

Carl Rogers

The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each individual tends to use the opportunity to become all that he or she can become. Separateness and diversity - the uniqueness of being "me" - are experienced