Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sidney Sheldon

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.

Sidney Sheldon

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

Sidney Poitier

I am the me I choose to be.

Sholom Aleichem

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Sherman Alexie

If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad. Arnold, get mad.

John Henry Newman

It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.

John Henry Newman

Growth is the only evidence of life.

John Guare

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

John Galsworthy

It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.

John Galsworthy

Only love makes fruitful the soul. The sense of form that both had in such high degree prevented much demonstration; but to be with him, do things for him, to admire, and credit him with perfection; and, since she could not exactly wear the same clothes or speak in the same clipped, quiet, decisive voice, to dislike the clothes and voices of other men - all this was precious to her beyond everything.

John Galsworthy

Love! Beyond meaure - beyond death - it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.

John Galsworthy

It isn't enough to love people because they're good to you, or because in some way or other you're going to get something by it. We have to love because we love loving.

John Frusciante

And for me the only way to live life is to grab the bull by the horns and call up recording studios and set dates to go in recording studios. To try and accomplish something.

John Donne

All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language. And every chapter must be translated. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice. But God's hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall live open to one another

John Dos Passos

Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.

John Donne

And swear No where Lives a woman true, and fair.

John Donne

. . . Change is the nursery Of musicke, joy, life and eternity.

John Donne

Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.

John Donne

All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

John Donne

Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.

John Donne

Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

John Eldredge

Desire, both the whispers and the shouts, is the map we have been given to find the only life worth living.

John Eldredge

The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other--moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.

John Ortberg

The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God's irreplaceable gift to you.

John Ortberg

When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

John O'Donohue

Beauty is the illumination of your soul.

John Mortimer

The secret of good health and happiness is to have rather small illnesses throughout your life which you can rely on to stop you doing anything you don't want to do.

John Milton

Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.

John Milton

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

John Milton

Luck is the residue of design.

John Milton

For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

John Denham

Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.

John Desmond Bernal

The beauty of life is, therefore, geometrical beauty of a type that Plato would have much appreciated.