Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed to study the two items separately. Similarly, we can not separate life from living matter, in order to study only living matter and its reactions. Inevitably, studying living matter and its reactions, we study life itself

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Life is a wondrous phenomenon.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Think boldly. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Don't miss small details, keep your eyes open and be modest in everything except your aims.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.

Albert Schweitzer

I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not true humans, but beings who live by a civilization inherited from the past, that keeps us hostage, that confines us. No freedom of movement. Nothing. Everything in us is killed by our calculations for our future, by our social position and cast. You see, I am not happy-yet I am happy. I suffer, but that is part of life. I live, I don't care about my existence, and that is the beginning of wisdom.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

Albert Schweitzer

The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

Albert Schweitzer

If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.

Deborah Davis

If there was a volcano under their feet, a Vesuvius that could erupt and bury this modern-day Pompeii at any moment, the best thing to do was dance on it.

Debby Ryan

It's really special to be a part of something that's really changing lives.

Debbie Ford

When you learn that you can trust life, life will deliver treasures beyond your imagination.

E. L. Konigsburg

Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves.

E. M. Forster

Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

E. M. Forster

Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.

E. M. Forster

Not only in sex, but in all things men have moved blindly, have evolved out of slime to dissolve into it when this accident of consequences is over.

E. M. Forster

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

E. M. Forster

Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.

E. M. Forster

One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.

E. M. Forster

I love love I love being in love I don't care what it does to me The Format, in "Inches and Failing". Masood, a young lady has fallen in love with me-at least so I judge from her letters. Awkward is it not-awkward and surprising. You would be flattered and twirl your moustache, but I am merely uncomfortable. I wish she would stop, as she is very nice, and I enjoyed being friends. What an ill constructed world this is! Love is always being given where it is not required.

E. M. Forster

Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

E. M. Forster

Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along

E. M. Forster

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

E. M. Forster

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

E. M. Forster

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Drew Barrymore

I don't think that life happens by sitting back and waiting. People hold their cards so tight to their chest. Life is short. Tell people you love them. What's the worst that's going to happen?

Douglas MacArthur

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

Douglas MacArthur

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Douglas MacArthur

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthur

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Douglas MacArthur

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

Douglas MacArthur

By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder - infinitely prouder - to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, Our Father Who Art in Heaven.