Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean Ingelow

we wish for more in life rather than more of it.

Jean Ingelow

From henceforth thou shalt learn that there is love To long for, pureness to desire, a mount Of consecration it were good to scale.

Jean Ingelow

There is but halting for the wearied foot; The better way is hidden. Faith hath failed; One stronger far than reason mastered her. It is not reason makes faith hard, but life.

Jean Ingelow

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Jean Ingelow

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

Jean Houston

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.

Jean Houston

If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.

James C. Collins

You must ask, "What do we mean by great results?" Your goals don't have to be quantifiable, but they do have to be describable. Some leaders try to insist, "The only acceptable goals are measurable," but that's actually an undisciplined statement. Lots of goals-beauty, quality, life change, love-are worthy but not quantifiable. But you do have to be able to tell if you're making progress.

James C. Collins

Most people will look back and realize they did not have a great life because it's just so easy to settle for a good life.

James C. Collins

There is a sense of exhilaration that comes from facing head-on the hard truths and saying, "We will never give up. We will never capitulate. It might take a long time, but we will find a way to prevail."

Jamelia

Life is too short not to experiment.

James Agee

In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God.

James A. Michener

. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that if they were destroyed . . . old jobs and old ways of life could be preserved . . . At certain times in his life each man is tempted to become a Luddite, for there is always something he would like to go back to. But to be against all change-against change in the abstract-is folly.

James A. Michener

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

James A. Garfield

You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.

James A. Baldwin

We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are, and what we take life to be. The question is not what we can do now for the hypothetical Mexican, the hypothetical Negro. The question is what we really want out of life, for ourselves, what we think is real.

James A. Baldwin

Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important.

James A. Baldwin

I'm beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didn't make sense, how could it happen?

James A. Baldwin

If you think too far ahead, if you even try to think too far ahead, you'll never make it.

James A. Baldwin

To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

James A. Baldwin

People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.

James A. Baldwin

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

James A. Baldwin

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

I am absolutely enraptured by the atmosphere of a wreck. A dead ship is the house of a tremendous amount of life-fish and plants. The mixture of life and death is mysterious, even religious. There is the same sense of peace and mood that you feel on entering a cathedral.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

Sometime we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course

Jacques Yves Cousteau

I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.

Jada Pinkett Smith

It's not about what you tell your children, but how you show them how to live life.

Jacqueline McKenzie

You have to have a lifestyle if you live in LA, otherwise it's deadly.

Jacqueline Carey

We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike.

Jacqueline Carey

Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear

Jackie Kennedy

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

Jackie Kennedy

Once you can express yourself, you can tell the world what you want from it. All the changes in the world, for good or evil, were first brought about by words.

Christopher Heyerdahl

Certainly, anyone whom I've witnessed, who has gone through something horrible and life-changing, has a sense of ironic humor, or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.