Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernest Hemingway

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

Ernest Hemingway

Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Ernest Hemingway

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Ernest Hemingway

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

Etty Hillesum

Life is good, after all...and that's what stays with me, even now, even when I'm about to be packed off to Poland.

Etty Hillesum

Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.

Eudora Welty

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

Eudora Welty

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

Erwin Chargaff

Life is the continuing intervention of the inexplicable.

Erwin Rommel

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.

Erwin W. Lutzer

Within evangelicalism is a distressing drift toward accepting a Christianity that does not demand a life-changing walk with God. Many evangelicals (today) do not realize that the church has always been an island of righteousness in a sea of paganism, but as a result they turned the world upside-down.

Erwin Schrodinger

From all we have learnt about the structure of living matter, we must be prepared to find it working in a manner that cannot be reduced to the ordinary laws of physics. And that not on the ground that there is any "new force" or what not, directing the behavior of the single atoms within a living organism, but because the construction is different from anything we have yet tested in the physical laboratory.

Jean de La Fontaine

To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.

Jean de La Fontaine

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Jhumpa Lahiri

And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things: the ungainly things she’d worn, the insecurity she’d felt, all the innocent mistakes she made.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Tradition implies authority, conformity, imitation, following.

Groucho Marx

Remember, the grass is always greener where you don't happen to be the neighbor.

Groucho Marx

Always examine the dice.

Groucho Marx

She's afraid that if she leaves, she'll become the life of the party.

Graham Greene

At one with the One, it didn't mean a thing besides a glass of Guinness on a sunny day.

Graham Greene

Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding.

Goldie Hawn

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

Giovanni Papini

Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life

Giulio Andreotti

I recognize my limits but when I look around I realise I am not living exactly in a world of giants.

Gerald Massey

Still all the day the iron wheels go onward, Grinding life down from its mark.

Gerald Massey

The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal magic music from Life's mystic frets.

Harriet Lerner

Being in touch with our bodies, or more accurately, being our bodies, is how we know what is true. Harriet

Harriet Lerner

Anger is a tool for change when it challenges us to become more of an expert on the self and less of an expert on others.

Harper Lee

There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.

Halle Berry

It's an amazing feeling to know that life is actually growing inside your body. The first time you see the ultrasound and you see the little bones and you realise that it's part of you and it's in your care is life changing and this sort of protective instinct has taken over.

Gregory Peck

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

Gregory David Roberts

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.

Homer

I'll tell you a secret. Something they don't teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.