Famous Quotes & Sayings

Helen Keller

Knowledge is power." Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Helen Keller

Ruth is so loyal and gentle-hearted, we cannot help loving her, as she stands with the reapers amid the waving corn. Her beautiful, unselfish spirit shines out like a bright star in the night of a dark and cruel age. Love like Ruth's, love which can rise above conflicting creeds and deep-seated racial prejudices, is hard to find in all the world.

Helen Keller

The beginning of my life was simple and much like every other little life. I came, I saw, I conquered, as the first baby in the family always does.

Helen Keller

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Helen Keller

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

Cat Power

Life is hard and it gets worse and worse and worse.

Cat Stevens

The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But there's also an incredible passion connected to it; it's not just a dry investigative process. I have been extremely emotional about it, and that comes out in the songs.

Cassandra Clare

I know you feel inhuman, and as if you are set apart, away from life and love, but... I promise you, the right man won't care.

Cassandra Clare

There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.

George Eliot

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

George Eliot

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

George Eliot

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

George Eliot

Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.

George Eliot

Looking at your life as a debt may seem the dreariest view of things at a distance; but it cannot really be so. What makes life dreary is the want of motive; but once beginning to act with the penitential, loving purpose you have in your mind, there will be unexpected satisfactions--there will be newly-opening needs--continually coming to carry you on from day to day. You will find your life growing like a plant.

George Eliot

When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst.

George Eliot

So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore.

George Eliot

The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history--hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death.

George Eliot

In the chequered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together; in the same moment the sickle is reaping and the seed is sprinkled; one tends the green cluster and another treads the wine-press. Nay, in each of our lives harvest and spring-time are continually one, until Death himself gathers us and sows us anew in his invisible fields.

George Eliot

You must learn to deal with the odd and even in life, as well as in figures.

George Eliot

Life is like a game of whist. I don't enjoy the game much; but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it.

George Eliot

Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

George Eliot

Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there's no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are.

George Eliot

Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.

George Eliot

Affection is the broadest basis of a good life.

George Eliot

Women know no perfect love: Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong; Man clings because the being whom he loves Is weak and needs him.

George Eliot

But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good?

George Eliot

Life's a vast sea That does its mighty errand without fail, Painting in unchanged strength though waves are changing.

Johnny Depp

Sticks an' stones, love. I've saved your life an' you've saved mine. We're square.

Symbolically, we wanted to give life to this idea that the 12th man was truly a part of the very being of this franchise, and it's become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

take responsibility for decision-making and the life they want to have.

Ron Moody

Summer of 1967 was one of the happiest times of my life.

Kelli O'Hara

It's really important that I have a personal life.

It's my turn now, and the wait was worth it, ... I'm having the time of my life right now.