Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meir Kahane

Life is essentially a question of values.

Melanie Klein

the anxiety arising from the perpetual activity of the death instinct, though never eliminated, is counteracted and kept at bay by the power of the life instinct.

Melanie Klein

Feelings of love and gratitude arise directly and spontaneously in the baby in response to the love and care of his mother.

Masi Oka

Even as we get older, we get in these routines -and routines are nice and comfortable -but I think that it's important to live life to its fullest and try different things. Because you never know what you're going to learn. You might not like it, you might like it.

Mason Cooley

The Simple Life is not a simple life.

Mason Cooley

The life of pleasure breeds boredom. The life of duty breeds resentment.

Mason Cooley

Life just keeps unfolding, ignoring our praise or blame.

Mason Cooley

Life is the risk we cannot refuse.

Mason Cooley

A goldfish is reason enough for living, if someone needs a reason.

Mason Cooley

I really like life, don't you? There's nothing else quite like it.

Mason Cooley

Life is used up all the same, whether we save, spend, or waste it.

Mason Cooley

The Insignificance of Man is a congenial theme; my own insignificance is a sore point.

Mason Cooley

Life is what it makes you.

Mason Cooley

Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death.

Mason Cooley

Life is struggle and sleep.

Mason Cooley

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.

Mason Cooley

Cure for an obsession: get another one.

Mary Karr

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild...

Mary Kay Ash

I've often said that we are doing something far more important than just selling cosmetics; we are changing lives.

Mary Kay Ash

Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret.

Mary Alice

Trust is a fragile thing. Once earned, it affords us tremendous freedom. But once trust is lost, it can be impossible to recover. Of course the truth is, we never know who we can trust. Those we're closest to can betray us, and total strangers can come to our rescue. In the end, most people decide to trust only themselves. It really is the simplest way to keep from getting burned.

Mary Astell

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

Martin Starr

Life is too short to torture yourself for no reason.

Martin Yan

I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life.

Martin Yan

When I retire or pass away, I will be able to look back and say that this has been an exciting life. That's all that matters.

Martin Yan

I live a very low-key life.

Michael Franti

Life is too short to make just one decision, music is too loud for just one station, love is too big for just one nation, and God is too big for just one religion!

Michael Chabon

The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.

Michael Chabon

The little boy had wandered away from his mother, tacking across the grass toward the play structure. His mother watched him go, proud, tickled, unaware that every time they toddled away from you, they came back a little different, ten seconds older and nearer to the day when they left you for good. Pearl divers in training, staying under a few seconds longer every time.

Mena Suvari

Sometimes I don't feel like the person that I'm supposed to be. I don't feel like I deserve any of this.

Melody Beattie

When you wonder what is coming, tell yourself the best is coming, the very best life and love have to offer, the best God and His universe have to send. Then open your hands to receive it. It's yours.

Michio Kaku

After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it], we physicists learned that we have to sing for our supper. ... The Cold War is over. You can't simply say "Russia!" to Congress, and they whip out their checkbook and say, "How much?" We have to tell the people why this atom-smasher is going to benefit their lives.

Michio Kaku

Srinivasa Ramanujan was the strangest man in all of mathematics, probably in the entire history of science. He has been compared to a bursting supernova, illuminating the darkest, most profound corners of mathematics, before being tragically struck down by tuberculosis at the age of 33... Working in total isolation from the main currents of his field, he was able to rederive 100 years' worth of Western mathematics on his own. The tragedy of his life is that much of his work was wasted rediscovering known mathematics.