Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aneurin Bevan

You don't have to gaze into a crystal ball when you can read an open book.

Anacreon

Life is like a chariot-wheel that ever rolls along.

Anatoli Boukreev

I cannot say to be glad or not glad to be on Everest. It is my life. I have opportunity to be here, so I am here.

Anatole France

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.

Anatole France

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.

Anatole France

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Anatole France

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Anatole France

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

Anatole France

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

Anatole France

A tale without love is like beef without mustard: insipid.

Anais Nin

Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child's blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality....I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.

Anais Nin

Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.

Anais Nin

To withhold from living is to die ... the more you give of yourself to life the more life nourishes you.

Anais Nin

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.

Anais Nin

The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anais Nin

If one's conscious life is too rigid, too regimented, then the surface may crack at times, and we are unprepared for the strange emotions or sensations we experience.

Anais Nin

The enemy of a love is never outside, it's not a man or a woman, it's what we lack in ourselves.

Anais Nin

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Anais Nin

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Anais Nin

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

Anais Nin

Dreams are necessary to life.

Anais Nin

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

Anais Nin

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.

Anais Nin

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Anais Nin

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

Anais Nin

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Amanda Lindhout

I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.

Anne Carson

We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth-- we call it life.

Anne Hathaway

I love the short-haired lifestyle.

Anne Frank

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

Anita Shreve

That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.

Anita Roddick

Not all revolutionaries set out to change the world per se; some set out to change their own worlds. And in so doing, they often change the way one person, or a few people, or whole communities, or entire nations or the world thinks and operates in some significant way.

Anita Roddick

Over the past decades...while many businesses have pursued what I call 'business as usual', I have been part of a different, smaller business movement, one that tried to put idealism back on the agenda.