Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baruch Spinoza

What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.

Baruch Spinoza

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

Barbara Pym

Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Barbara Sher

I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can't have it all at once and you can't have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.

Barbara Sher

Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day....

Aulus Gellius

Truth is the daughter of time.

Auguste Rodin

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

Augusten Burroughs

Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I might already be ruined.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

History is full of surprises.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

They know your name, address, telephone number, credit card numbers, who ELSE is driving the car "for insurance", ... your driver's license number. In the state of Massachusetts, this is the same number as that used for Social Security, unless you object to such use. In THAT case, you are ASSIGNED a number and you reside forever more on the list of "weird people who don't give out their Social Security Number in Massachusetts."

Arthur Miller

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.

Arthur Miller

Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Arthur Miller

Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.

Arthur Miller

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Arthur Adamov

Everything happens as though I were only one of the particular existences of some great incomprehensible and central being.... Sometimes this great totality of life appears to me so dramatically beautiful that it plunges me into ecstasy. But more often it seems like a monstrous beast that penetrates and surpasses me and which is everywhere, within me and outside me.... And terror grips and envelops me more powerfully from moment to moment.... My only way out is to write, to make others aware of it, so as not to have to feel all of it alone, to get rid of however small a portion of it.

Art Linkletter

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

Arthur Ashe

If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?

Arthur Ashe

If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.

Arthur Ashe

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

Aziz Ansari

I'm an optimist - I feel like an amazing part of life is that at any moment.

Ayn Rand

If you know that this life is all that you have, wouldn't you make the most of it?

Ayn Rand

I think. I am. I will.

Ayn Rand

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

Ayn Rand

My dear fellow, who will let you?" "That's not the point. The point is, who will stop me?

Golshifteh Farahani

In my life, my parents wanted me to be a musician, I was supposed to go to Vienna to study piano. But this train wanted to go in another direction.

Gina McKee

There's a way of negotiating how you portray your private life publicly that I've never had the skill to do.

Gina McKee

I don't feel comfortable talking about my private life, and some people in my private life don't feel comfortable about me talking about it. So I don't.

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.