Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles R. Swindoll

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

Charles R. Swindoll

10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.

Charles R. Swindoll

The skeptic may deny your doctrine or attack your church but he cannot honestly ignore the fact that your life has been changed.

Dennis Prager

Life is too short not to enjoy as much of it as you can

Demosthenes

The fact speak for themselves.

Democritus

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Debra Messing

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

Dean Rusk

The best way to persuade is with your ears.

Dean Koontz

He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often.

Dimitar Sasselov

In science, it is rare that a transformational change occurs during our lifetimes.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God has willed that we should seek and find God's living Word in the testimony of other Christians, in the mouths of human beings.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

On Sunday 8 April 1945, he had just finished conducting a service of worship at Schoenberg, when two soldiers came took him away. As he left, he said to another prisoner, This is the end - but for me, the beginning - of life. He was hanged the next day, less than a week before the Allies reached the camp.

Edgar Mitchell

We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point.

Edgar Mitchell

We are not alone in the universe. They have been coming here for a long time...

Edgar Allan Poe

The fever called "living" Is conquer'd at last.

Edgar Allan Poe

Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart From its present pathway part not! Being everything which now thou art, Be nothing which thou art not. So with the world thy gentle ways, Thy grace, thy more than beauty, Shall be an endless theme of praise, And love - a simple duty.

Edgar Allan Poe

Finally on Sunday morning, October 7, 1849, "He became quiet and seemed to rest for a short time. Then, gently, moving his head," he said, "Lord help my poor soul." As he had lived so he died-in great misery and tragedy.

Edgar Allan Poe

In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. Ah! what is not a dream by day To him whose eyes are cast On things around him with a ray Turned back upon the past? That holy dream- that holy dream, While all the world were chiding, Hath cheered me as a lovely beam A lonely spirit guiding. What though that light, thro' storm and night, So trembled from afar- What could there be more purely bright In Truth's day-star?

Edgar Allan Poe

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Edgar Allan Poe

The best things in life make you sweaty.

Edgar Allan Poe

The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.

Edgar Allan Poe

Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made.

Edgar Allan Poe

Even for those to whom life and death are equal jests. There are some things that are still held in respect.

Edgar Allan Poe

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Edgar Allan Poe

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Eleanor Catton

Remember that anybody who is clever enough to set you free is clever enough to enslave you.

Eldridge Cleaver

The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the American Way of Life is a fossil of history. What do they care if their old baldheaded and crew-cut elders don't dig their caveman mops? They couldn't care less about the old, stiff-assed honkies who don't like their new dances: Frog, Monkey, Jerk, Swim, Watusi. All they know is that it feels good to swing to way-out body-rhythms instead of dragging across the dance floor like zombies to the dead beat of mind-smothered Mickey Mouse music.

Eldridge Cleaver

Every highly successful person is a maniac on a mission. Too much agreement kills a chat

Eldridge Cleaver

You're either part of the solution or you're part of the problem.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.