Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Verghese

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

Abraham Lincoln

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.

Ani Difranco

Let's show them all how it's done, let's do it all imperfectly.

Ani Difranco

When everything else seems unclear, at least I'll know I do it for the joy it brings.

Ani Difranco

And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.

Ani Difranco

I just hope it was okay, I know it wasn't perfect, I hope in the end we can laugh and say it was all worth it.

Ani Difranco

First decide what you got to do, then go out and do it. All we can do is to see each other through it.

Ani Difranco

It's not important to be defined, it's only important to use your time well.

Ani Difranco

We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

Ani Difranco

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

Andrew Marvell

What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.

Andrew McMahon

I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

Andrew Mason

Life is too short to be a boring company.

Amy Lowell

Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart.

Amy Lowell

To-night when the full-bellied moon swallows the stars. Grant that I know.

Amy Poehler

Saying "yes" doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying "please" doesn't mean I am waiting for permission.

Ally Carter

Life is classified. There is always so much that goes unsaid.

Allen Iverson

Life is short. Im gonna be happy with mine.

Allen Ginsberg

Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.

Alistair MacLeod

No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.

Alicia Machado

Every day I am trying to improve my life.

Anthony Hopkins

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

Anthony Hopkins

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Ann Landers

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Ann Landers

When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.

Ann Landers

The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.

Ann Brashares

Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.

Ann Brashares

It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.

Ann Brashares

Carmen hated the 'life is too short" rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because "life is too short not to," you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.

Ann Brashares

Love is like war; easy to begin, hard to end.

Ann Brashares

Not all who wander are lost

Ann Brashares

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

Andy Andrews

Whatever you focus upon, increases......When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing......A grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.