Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean-Paul Sartre

Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Georges Carpentier

Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.

George Zimmerman

Only in a true life or death scenario can you have mental clearness to know that you cannot feel guilty for surviving.

George William Curtis

Happiness is speechless.

George Will

Civilization depends on, and civility often requires, the willingness to say, 'What you are doing is none of my business' and 'What I am doing is none of your business.'

George Sand

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

George Sand

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

George Sand

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

George S. Patton

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

George S. Patton

I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his generals and his leaders. I have even read his philosophers and listened to his music. I have studied in detail the account of every damned one of his battles. I know exactly how he will react under any given set of circumstances. And he hasn't the slightest idea of what I'm going to do. So when the time comes, I'm going to whip the hell out of him.

George S. Patton

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

George Saunders

Why were we put here, so inclined to love, when end of our story = death? That harsh. That cruel. Do not like.

Jeffery Deaver

And life changes. Maybe just a little, maybe a lot. And at some point, it just isn't worth the fight to fix it.

Jeffery Deaver

We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.

Jean Paul

A loving maiden grows unconsciously more bold.

Jean Paul

Love lessens woman's delicacy and increases man's.

Jean Paul

Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.

Jean Paul

Only deeds give strength to life, only moderation gives it charm.

Jean Paul

Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies.

Jean Paul

The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.

Jean Paul

A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

Jean Paul

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jim Henson

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. We've done just what we set out to do. Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers and you.

Jim Henson

Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.

Jerry Pournelle

The importance of information is directly proportional to its improbability.

Jerry Spinelli

I’m erased. I’m gone. I’m nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl…. And… I see. I hear. But not with eyes and ears. I’m not outside my world anymore, and I’m not really inside it either. The thing is, there’s no difference between me and the universe. The boundary is gone. I am it and it is me. I am a stone, a cactus thorn. I am rain. I like that most of all, being rain.

Jerry Spinelli

The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our senses. Then - maybe - the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.

Eoin Colfer

Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.

Eoin Colfer

'Insanity... I like it."

Emma Bunton

Be yourself, take control of your life.

Elsa Schiaparelli

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.