Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Faber

A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.

Michel Houellebecq

If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.

Michel Foucault

People know what they do; frequently they know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

Michael Johnson

Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.

Michael Josephson

I think Samuel Johnson had it right when he observed that hope is itself a species of happiness. So if we want to be happy it only makes sense to discipline ourselves to choose our attitudes, to think positively and to be hopeful.

Michael J. Fox

Life is the power that's greater than I can ever comprehend.

Michael J. Fox

Life is good, and there's no reason to think it won't be--right up until the moment when everything explodes into a fireball of tiny, unrecognizable fragments, or it all goes skidding sideways, through the guardrail, over the embankment, and down the mountain. This will happen (and probably more than once).

Michael J. Fox

Life is what you put into it and how much you take out of it. You put in more than is expected, and you take out less than you want.

Michael J. Fox

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.

Michael Jordan

I realized that if I was going to achieve anything in life I had to be aggressive. I had to get out there and go for it... I know fear is an obstacle for some people, but it's an illusion to me.

Martha Reeves

Good and bad - this is the story of my life.

Martha Stewart

My new motto is: When you're through changing, you're through.

Mark Richards

I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I alone know when that is.

Mark Cuban

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.

Mark Cuban

Treat your customers like they own you. Because they do.

Marie Corelli

it seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful.

Marie Curie

Life is not easy for any for us.

Marie Curie

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

Marie Curie

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Mariel Hemingway

When child actors act well they're just reacting to situations, and they're acting very real because their life experience is so short; there's no history to fall back on.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marge Piercy

Any life is lived in a particular time and place. Every life is impacted by the family's socio-economic circumstances, and, in later life, by the person's.

Marge Piercy

Live as if you like yourself, and it may happen.

Marge Piercy

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.

Terrell Owens

Life and death. At some point we're gonna leave this world. Do I know when? Absolutely not.

Ted Turner

Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it, but you don't want to see it again.

Ted Turner

Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.

Ted Cruz

We need leaders who will stand unapologetically in defense of marriage and life.

Theodore Zeldin

What we make of people, and what we see in the mirror when we look at ourselves, depends on what we know of the world, what we believe to be possible, what memories we have, and whether our loyalties are to the past, the present or the future.

Theodore Sturgeon

Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with.

Theodore Parker

Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.

Theodore Roethke

And what a congress of stinks!- Roots ripe as old bait, Pulpy stems, rank, silo-rich, Leaf mold, manure, lime, piled against slippery planks, Nothing would give up life: Even the dirt kept breathing a small breath.

Theodore Roosevelt

In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard.