Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Atkins

As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change.

Christopher Alexander

All space and matter, organic or inorganic, has some degree of life in it, and matter/space is more alive or less alive according to its structure and arrangement.

Christina Rossetti

The Bourne Underneath the growing grass, Underneath the living flowers, Deeper than the sound of showers: There we shall not count the hours By the shadows as they pass. Youth and health will be but vain, Beauty reckoned of no worth: There a very little girth Can hold round what once the earth Seemed too narrow to contain.

Christina Rossetti

This life is but the passage of a day, This life is but a pang and all is over; But in the life to come which fades not away Every love shall abide and every lover.

Christine Feehan

Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.

Christian Morgenstern

Humor is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

Christie Brinkley

Life is too short to not have oysters and champagne sometimes

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

Life is indeed either a rich possession or a poor, according as it is made subservient to noble aims or ignoble pleasures.

Life being full of harsh realities, we seek relief from them in a variety of pleasing delusions.

The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.

The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery.

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

Christiaan Barnard

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

Christiaan Barnard

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

Faith Baldwin

One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

He dispensed starlight to casual moths.

George W. Bush

Mankind is drawn to the heavens for the same reason we were once drawn into unknown lands and across the open sea. We choose to explore space because doing so improves our lives, and lifts our national spirit. So let us continue the journey.

George W. Bush

In every instance when my administration sees a responsibility to help people, we will look first to faith-based institutions, to charities and to community groups that have shown their ability to save and change lives.

George W. Bush

It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.

George Takei

Life is too short not to order the bacon dessert.

George Steiner

The new sound-sphere is global. It ripples at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musical Esperanto is staggering. Rock and pop breed concentric worlds of fashion, setting and life-style. Popular music has brought with it sociologies of private and public manner, of group solidarity. The politics of Eden come loud.

George Steiner

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

George Soros

My original intention was to spend the money in my lifetime.

George Orwell

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

George Orwell

you can't live life without consequences. They occur regardless of the decision. A consequence is an outcome, good or bad. You can live life without regrets and thats what makes it worth it. Or you could live with regret and end up hanging yourself but thats still good. You paid for the rope so your feeding someones family. Something to be proud of before you kick the bucket

George Orwell

I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

George R. R. Martin

Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

Jean Cocteau

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Jean Cocteau

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.