Famous Quotes & Sayings

Oscar Wilde

Life is too short to be in a hurry.

Oscar Wilde

Live the wonderful life that is in you.

Oscar Wilde

Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry.

For the life of me, I don't know how they missed the two palm trees and went through my fence.

For the first time in my life I saw a real computer.

Ivan Illich

I don't want to die of some disease I want to die of death

Ivan Turgenev

Belonging to oneself--the whole essence of life lies in that.

Ivan Turgenev

What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.

Ivan Turgenev

There's something tragic in the fate of almost every person--it's just that the tragic is often concealed from a person by the banal surface of life.... A woman will complain of indigestion and not even know that what she means is that her whole life has been shattered.

Ivan Turgenev

Life deceives everyone except the individual who doesn't contemplate it, the individual who demands nothing from it, the individual who serenely accepts its few gifts and serenely makes the most of them.

Isaiah Berlin

Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others.

Isak Dinesen

You must not think that I feel, in spite of it having ended in such defeat, that my "life has been wasted" here, or that I would exchange it with that of anyone I know.

Irvin D. Yalom

Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.

Iris Murdoch

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

Iris Murdoch

One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.

Iris Murdoch

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

Imelda Marcos

Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

Ida Tarbell

Life is but a collection of habits.

I. F. Stone

All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.

Hypatia

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

Hyman Rickover

Act as if you are going to live for ever and cast your plans way ahead. You must feel responsible without time limitations, and the consideration of whether you may or may not be around to see the results should never enter your thoughts.

Hyman Rickover

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Gregory Maguire

Elena had always felt like the center of her own world - who doesn't? The world arranged itself around her like petals around the stem of a flower. This way the meadows, that way the woodland. Over here, the baryn's estate, out there, the hills that hug the known world close and imply a world at beyond. She could never come up with the edge of a world, because it always kept going on beyond. She moved the center of the world as she walked. The world was balanced on her head.

Gregory Maguire

One plus one equals both.

Gloria Naylor

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

Gloria Naylor

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or to make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

Gloria Vanderbilt

One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.

Gloria Vanderbilt

Everything in life is elusive.

Gloria Swanson

Life and death. They are somehow sweetly and beautifully mixed, but I don't know how.

Gloria Swanson

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

Gloria Steinem

The point of the journey is not just healing. It's also recovering the truest, most spontaneous, joyful, and creative core of ourselves.

Gloria Steinem

It's never to late for a happy childhood.

Giorgio Agamben

Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision.