Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kennedy

I'm a lifelong believer in trade unionism.

Charles Kettering

It is not a disgrace to fail. Failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Charles Kettering

An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots.

Charles Kettering

There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

Charles Kingsley

I have fought my fight, I have lived my life, I have drunk my share of wine; From Trier to Coln there was never a knight Led a merrier life than mine.

Charles Kingsley

For men must work and women must weep, And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep.

Charles Kingsley

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Charles Kingsley

The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.

Charles Kingsley

Life is too short for mean anxieties.

Charles Colson

Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.

Charles Darwin

It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter.

Charles Darwin

From the first dawn of life, all organic beings are found to resemble each other in descending degrees, so that they can be classed in groups under groups. This classification is evidently not arbitrary like the grouping of stars in constellations.

Charles Atlas

Step by step and the thing is done.

Charles A. Beard

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

Bradley Whitford

Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth.

Bradley Cooper

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

I like to go where the life is.

Barry Long

Feelings are constantly changing. None is dependable for long. You can love someone intensely today, and tomorrow or next month not feel a thing. Except perhaps for the feeling of doubt or depression that what was so beautiful could change so quickly.

Barry Long

Love is the state of enlightenment and enlightenment is the state of love. You can't make any separation between them. Enlightenment is the state of no feelings and pure knowledge and so is love.

Barry Long

Love is a power, a mighty principle that exists in its own right independent of any individual. Man changes, but the principle of love does not and cannot. Love does not leave men and women. Men and women leave love.

Barry Long

I suppose the most radical part of my teaching at present is that love is not a feeling. Everybody suffers from love, or the fear of it, or the lack of it. Why? Why is love so universally and inevitably heart-breaking, whether it be through the end of a love affair, the death of a loved one or being locked in with the habitual casualness or grim indifference of a partner? The answer is because we've been taught and conditioned by the world to believe that love is a feeling.

Barbara Bush

Describing life out of the public eye to David Letterman, December 6th, 1996 It's been different. I started driving again. I started cooking again. My driving's better than my cooking. George has discovered Sam's Club.

Arthur Symons

My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.

Arthur Symons

Life is a dream in the night, a fear among fears, A naked runner lost in a storm of spears.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Human life must be some form of mistake.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

Arthur Schopenhauer

A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.