Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Rogers

There are as many "real worlds" as there are people!

Carl Sagan

Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion - may be the key to survival.

Carl Sagan

Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close.

Carl Sagan

Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable. . . .

Carl Sagan

Discussing the possibilities of extraterrestrial life: I would love it even if they were short, sullen, grumpy and sexually obsessed. But there just isn't any good evidence.

Bill Bryson

As the saying goes, it takes all kinds to make the world go around, though perhaps some shouldn't go quite so far around it as others.

Bill Bryson

It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.

Bill Bryson

To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.

Bethany Mota

You can't take anything online personally, especially if it is negative. You can have 10 positive comments, but the one negative comment will get to you. I learned you have to stay focused on the people who love and support you.... Remember that hate comments can be a cry for help or attention. I recommend not responding at all, but if you do, be kind.

Bethenny Frankel

Truthfully, my life is always lunacy.

Bette Davis

Old age is no place for sissies.

Bernard Berenson

I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.

Bernard Berenson

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities.

Arsene Wenger

Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.

Anton Corbijn

My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.

Suze Orman

I want to work with the Philippine people and make life better there; there are systems I can work with.

Salli Richardson

'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.

Halle Berry

I will never say never, but at this time in my life NUDITY IS OUT.

I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.

Robert Fogel

I think the most important thing I have done in my life is to raise two boys.

Oscar Wilde

It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.

Josiah Royce

It is an old story, this life of ours. There is nothing new under our sun. Nothing new, that is, for us, as we now feel and think.

Joshua Sasse

I think there are always people that you meet in your life that scare you a little, but not because of the terror in their eyes so much as their unpredictability.

Simon Schama

Jews can live their own life as Jews and yet be part of a different country.

Antoine Rivarol

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

Bill Hicks

The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill those people.

Bertrand Russell

What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to emptiness. Sometimes a voice of one drowning, and in a moment the silence returns. The world seems to me quite dreadful, the unhappiness of many people is very great, and I often wonder how they all endure it. It is usually the central thing around which their lives are built, and I suppose if they did not live most of their lives in the things of the moment, they would not be able to go on.

Bertrand Russell

Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.

Bertrand Russell

Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

Charles R. Swindoll

Joy springs from a life lived with eternity's values in view.

Megan Hilty

Theater was a big part of my life from the beginning.