Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harold Pinter

No matter how you look at it, all the emotions connected with love are not really immortal; like all other passions in life, they are bound to fade at some point. The trick is to convert love into some lasting friendship that overcomes the fading passion.

James Dean

Remember: Life is short, break the rules

James Dean

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

James D. Watson

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant.

James Broughton

A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

James Branch Cabell

Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible from ever coming true?

James Branch Cabell

There is no gift more great than love.

James Branch Cabell

Everything in life is miraculous. For the sigil taught me that it rests within the power of each of us to awaken atwill from a dragging nightmare of life made up of unimportant tasks and tedious useless little habits, to see life as it really is, and to rejoice in its exquisite wonderfulness.

James Branch Cabell

The realization that life is absurdand cannot be an end, but only abeginning. This is a truth nearly allgreat minds have taken as their starting point.

James Branch Cabell

Life is very marvelous ... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.

James Branch Cabell

Sad hours and glad hours, and all hours, pass over; One thing unshaken stays: Life, that hath Death for spouse, hath Chance for lover; Whereby decays Each thing save one thing: - mid this strife diurnal Of hourly change begot, Love that is God-born, bides as God eternal, And changes not; - Nor means a tinseled dream pursuing lovers Find altered by-and-bye, When, with possession, time anon discovers Trapped dreams must die, - For he that visions God, of mankind gathers One manlike trait alone, And reverently imputes to Him a father's Love for his son.

James Branch Cabell

What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that by cleanly, simple, generous living we approach perfection in the highest and most lovely of all arts. . . . But you, I think, have always comprehended this.

James Branch Cabell

Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.

James Boswell

What an insignificant life is this which I am now leading!

Jake T. Austin

My biggest life lesson is that money cannot buy happiness.

Jaimie Alexander

Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change.

Jacques Delille

Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

Jacqueline Woodson

A long time ago, Anne used to talk about energy-how that was all that love was-ions connecting across synapses of time and air. Don't rationalize, she'd say. None of it will ever make sense. I leaned back against the wall and closed my eyes, not wanting to cry. Anne was right. None of it made any sense.

Jacqueline Woodson

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise,

Jack Zipes

Inevitably they find their way into the forest. It is there that they lose and find themselves. It is there that they gain a sense of what is to be done. The forest is always large, immense, great and mysterious. No one ever gains power over the forest, but the forest posses the power to change lives and alter destinies.

Jack Youngblood

Football has been my life for as long as I can remember.

Jackie Chan

The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro , like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.

Jackie Chan

When life knocks you down, you can choose to get back up.

Jackie Chan

Life will knock us down, but we can choose whether or not to stand back up.

James Freeman Clarke

It is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it.

James Freeman Clarke

Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.

James Frey

What is the meaning of life?Whatever you want it to be.

James Frey

I wanted to be a writer that had an impact. I wanted, and still I say the same thing, I want to write books that change people's lives, change how we think and live and read and write. I wanna write books that are read in 50 or 100 years.

James Carroll

Before entering the seminary, I had not encountered the life-changing potential of reading as a source of meaning, as a way of ordering one's inner life, and being rooted in the world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill.

J. R. R. Tolkien

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out.

J. R. R. Tolkien

'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.'

J. R. R. Tolkien

Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.