Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Keats

The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others.

John Keats

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

John Keats

Stop and consider! life is but a day

John Keats

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a life like the scriptures, figurative.

John Keats

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

John Keats

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

John Keats

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

John Deacon

But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.

John D. Rockefeller

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

John D. Rockefeller

Singleness of purpose is essential for success in life.

John D. Rockefeller

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

John D. Rockefeller

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Gayle Forman

Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?

Gayle Forman

I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.

Gayle Forman

I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.

Gayle Forman

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.

Gayle Forman

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

Lois McMaster Bujold

My home is not a place, it is people.

Liz Carpenter

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Lynda Barry

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.

Lyndon B. Johnson

No man should think that peace comes easily. Peace does not come by merely wanting it, or shouting for it, or marching down Main Street for it. Peace is built brick by brick, mortared by the stubborn effort and the total energy and imagination of able and dedicated men. And it is built in the living faith that, in the end, man can and will master his own destiny.

Ludwig Borne

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.

Louise Penny

After spending most of her life scanning the horizon for slights and threats, genuine and imagined, she knew the real threat to her happiness came not from the dot in the distance, but from looking for it. Expecting it. Waiting for it. And in some cases, creating it. Her father had jokingly accused her of living in the wreckage of her future. Until one day she'd looked deep into his eyes and saw he wasn't joking. He was warning her.

Louise Penny

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

Louis Armstrong

If I don’t practice for a day, I know it. If I don’t practice for two days, the critics know it. And if I don’t practice for three days, the public knows it.

Louis D. Brandeis

If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.

Loretta Devine

The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.