Famous Quotes & Sayings

Homer

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

Homer

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Horace Bushnell

Every man's life is a plan of God.

Ian Rankin

Witches never existed, except in people’s minds. All there was in the olden days was women and some men who believed in herbal cures and in folklore and in the wish to fly. Witches? We’re all witches in one way or another. Witches was the invention of mankind, son. We’re all witches beneath the skin.

Ian Rankin

His eyes beheld beauty not in reality but in the printed word. Standing in the waiting-room, he realized that in his life he had accepted secondary experience -- the experience of reading someone else's thoughts -- over real life.

Ian Somerhalder

Every life lesson that trickled its way into my being came from a mutually respectful relationship between the environment and my family. We were raised to appreciate the teachings of animals and the untouched magnificence of raw natural beauty. This understanding of our precious and complex ecosystem has carried me throughout every chapter of my life and is a significant column of my identity.

Ian Somerhalder

We are all dropped into our lives on this planet with a limited amount of time and cosmic understanding, yet we know one thing for certain: we wish to live. We share this yearning for life and love with all the beings that fly, grow, slither or swim amongst us.

Ian Anderson

But the tune ends too soon for us all

Hugh Prather

perfectionism is a slow death. if everything were to turn out just like i would want it to, just like i would plan for it to, then i would never experience anything new; my life would be an endless repetition of stale successes. when i make a mistake i experience something unexpected.... when i have listened to my mistakes i have grown.

Hugh Walpole

I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams

Hugh Prather

It's not that "today is the first day of the rest of my life," but that now is all there is of my life.

Hugh Dillon

Life is too short to spend in negativity. So I have made a conscious effort to not be where I don't want to be.

Hugh Grant

Basically, my life is so boring, it's embarrassing.

Huey Newton

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Hrithik Roshan

The biggest hit of my life is Agneepath. My second is Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara and the third biggest hit is Dhoom 2

Hrithik Roshan

Life is not unfair. Life is what you make of it.

Howie Mandel

The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.

Hosea Ballou

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

Horace

When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.

Horace

Does he council you better who bids you, Money, by right means, if you can: but by any means, make money ?

Horace

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Horace

He is always a slave who cannot live on little.

Hannah Arendt

We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.

Hannah Arendt

If it is true ... that no one has a life worth thinking about whose life story cannot be told, does it not then follow that life could be, even ought to be, lived as a story, that what one has to do in life is to make the story come true?

Hannah Arendt

The blessing of life as a wholecan never be found in work.

Hannah Arendt

No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.

Guy de Maupassant

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

Guy deBord

people who personify the system are indeed well known for not being what they seem to be; they have achieved greatness by embracing a level of reality lower than that of the most insignificant individual life- and everyone knows it.

Guy de Maupassant

I know nothing more enjoyable than that happy-go-lucky wandering life, in which you are perfectly free; without shackles of any kind, without care, without preoccupation, without thought even of to-morrow. You go in any direction you please, without any guide save your fancy.

Gottfried Leibniz

TO LOVE is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.

Gottfried Leibniz

Although the whole of this life were said to be nothing but a dream and the physical world nothing but a phantasm, I should call this dream or phantasm real enough, if, using reason well, we were never deceived by it.

Gore Vidal

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

Gore Vidal

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.