Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Conrad

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

Joseph Conrad

The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Joseph Conrad

It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.

Joshua Chamberlain

The inspiration of a noble cause involving human interests wide and far, enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before, and which they were not capable of alone. The consciousness of belonging, vitally, to something beyond individuality; of being part of a personality that reaches we know not where, in space and time, greatens the heart to the limit of the souls ideal, and builds out the supreme character.

Joseph Butler

But to us, probability is the very guide of life.

Kate Millett

Life is a publicity stunt. A shill. You've been had.

Kate Millett

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

Kate Morton

Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.

Kate Morton

He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.

Kate Morton

You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off the page.

Karrine Steffans

Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.

Karlie Kloss

If you believe in yourself and feel confident in yourself, you can do anything. I really believe that.

Leona Lewis

My private life is the most precious thing to me.

Leonard Cohen

I am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me.

Leonard Cohen

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

Leonard Cohen

Love is not a victory march

Leonard Cohen

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Lawton Chiles

We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.

Laurel Clark

Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing.

Lauren Bacall

A planned life is a dead life.

Lauren Bacall

Life is not what you expected it to be.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Life is often like that, the best balancing on a knife edge with the worst.

Laurell K. Hamilton

My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

Langston Hughes

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Langston Hughes

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

John Keble

New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.

John Keats

I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.

John Keats

Ghosts of melodious prophesyings rave Round every spot where trod Apollo's foot; Bronze clarions awake, and faintly bruit, Where long ago a giant battle was; And, from the turf, a lullaby doth pass In every place where infant Orpheus slept. Feel we these things? - that moment have we stept Into a sort of oneness, and our state Is like a floating spirit's. But there are Richer entanglements, enthralments far More self-destroying, leading, by degrees, To the chief intensity: the crown of these Is made of love and friendship, and sits high Upon the forehead of humanity.

John Keats

Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is - Love, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust.

John Keats

And there shall be for thee all soft delight That shadowy thought can win, A bright torch, and a casement ope at night, To let the warm Love in!

John Keats

I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.

John Keats

It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time.