Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimmy Carter

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

John Cage

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

John Cage

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Immanuel Kant

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Robert Fulghum

You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it.

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

Leonard Maltin

The Little Rascals: The Life and Times of Our Gang.

Muhammad Ali

Life is so, so short. Bible says it's like a vapor.

Mencius

People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure.

Mahatma Gandhi

One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love.

James Thurber

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

James Prescott Joule

The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a machine composed of magnets and bars of iron set in motion by an electrical battery. I have proved by actual experiment that, in exact proportion to the force with which this machine works, heat is abstracted from the electrical battery. You see, therefore, that living force may be converted into heat, and that heat may be converted into living force, or its equivalent attraction through space.

James Packer

Business is good right now, but now my personal life is a disaster.

James Patterson

They're afraid of change, and we must change. They're afraid of the young, and we are the young. They're afraid of music, and music is our life. They're afraid of books, and knowledge, and ideas. They're most afraid of our magic.

James Patterson

Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.

James Patterson

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

James Patterson

Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet.

James Montgomery

Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?

James Merrill

In life, there are no perfect affections.

James Martineau

There is no human life so poor and small as not to hold many a divine possibility.

James Martineau

The mere lapse of years is not life. To eat, to drink, and sleep; to be exposed to darkness and the light; to pace around in the mill of habit, and turn thought into an instrument of trade-this is not life. Knowledge, truth, love, beauty, goodness, faith, alone can give vitality to the mechanism of existence.

James Martineau

I bow in reverence before the emotions of every melted heart....The more intense the delight in their presence, the more poignant the impression of their absence....When the tears of bereavement have had their natural flow, they lead us again to life and love's generous joy.

James Macdonald

God brings tests into your life because your faith in Him--your belief that He is in control and that He is good--can be proved only in times when life is hard.

Novalis

Love works magic. It is the finalpurpose of the world story, the Amen of the universe.

Novalis

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Novalis

Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.

Norton Juster

if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.

Norman Vincent Peale

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Norman Vincent Peale

Artur Rubinstein, the famous pianist, was once asked the secret of his success-was it dedication, ability, discipline, hard work? Mr. Rubinstein smiled as he remarked, "It's hard to say, but one thing I do know: if you love life, life will love you back!" What a wonderful insight! That philosophy explains how a man in his eighties can continue to be so creative. For life is simply filled with exciting blessings for everybody. They're ours if we give enough of ourselves to life!

Norman Vincent Peale

Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.

Norman Vincent Peale

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

Emilie Autumn

Why can I never go back to bed? Who's is the voice ringing in my head? Where is the sense in these desperate dreams? Why should I wake when I'm half past dead?

Emile Zola

Yes! live life with every fibre of one's being, surrender oneself to it, with no thoughts of rebellion, without deluding oneself that one can improve it and render it painless.