Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marilynne Robinson

And there is no living creature, though the whims of eons had put its eyes on boggling stalks and clamped it in a carapace, diminished it to a pinpoint and given it a taste for mud and stuck it down a well or hid it under a stone, but that creature will live on if it can.

Maria Montessori

What is a scientist?... We give the name scientist to the type of man who has felt experiment to be a means guiding him to search out the deep truth of life, to lift a veil from its fascinating secrets, and who, in this pursuit, has felt arising within him a love for the mysteries of nature, so passionate as to annihilate the thought of himself.

Matsuo Basho

Now the swinging bridge Is quieted with creepers ... Like our tendrilled life.

Matsuo Basho

Without the bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance to the whole world?

Mary Webb

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

Mary Engelbreit

Life is too short to sleep it all away!

Mary Engelbreit

Life is too short to rush around and be too busy for your kids.

Patricia Briggs

Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.

Pat Nixon

I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political career of my husband.

Pat Metheny

The Unity Band project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

Pat Riley

All of us have at least one great voice deep inside.

Pat Riley

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

Pablo Casals

The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.

Pablo Neruda

In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?

P. J. O'Rourke

I'd like to end the book a lot of ways. Except I don't have any answers. Use your common sense. Be nice. This is the best I can do. All the trouble in the world is human trouble. Well, that's not true. But when cancer cells run amok and burst out of the prostate and take over the liver and lymph glands and end up killing everything in the body including themselves, they certainly are acting like some humans we know.

Plautus

He who falls in love meets a worse fate than he who leaps from a rock.

Plautus

He that is in love, faith, if he be hungry, is not hungry at all.

Plautus

Love has both its gall and honey in abundance: it has sweetness to the taste, but it presents bitterness also to satiety.

Plautus

Find me a reasonable lover against his weight in gold.

Plautus

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Plato

Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.

Plato

Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it.

Plato

Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness.

Plato

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Plato

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom.

Plato

I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.

Philip Larkin

...the breath that sharpens life is life itself...

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.

Paulo Freire

What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?

Paula Malcomson

If you're lucky enough to get to play a character for a long time, it's life-changing.

Paula Fox

Life is all getting used to what you're not used to.

Paula Deen

Life is too short to wonder where you hid your waffle maker.

Phil Harding

We can't always control what happens but we can control our response