Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dev Anand

Life is too short. I don't have time to speak slowly.

Desmond Tutu

Many people ask me what I have learned from all of the experiences in my life, and I say unhesitatingly: People are wonderful. It is true. People really are wonderful.

Desmond Tutu

Out of the cacophony of random suffering and chaos that can mark human life, the life artist sees or creates a symphony of meaning and order. A life of wholeness does not depend on what we experience. Wholeness depends on how we experience our lives.

Desmond Tutu

Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu

If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Derek Waters

If life is too short, get off the floor at the hotel bar. How can you go big if you're on the floor? I don't understand it.

Derek Walcott

To change your language you must change your life.

Delmore Schwartz

How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love?

Della Reese

You dont have to let your life be destroyed by diabetes. You can reclaim your life.

Deepak Chopra

The reason why life is a sleep & dream for most people is because their awareness is caught up with past or future & not with what is.

Debbie Reynolds

I loved going to films, but as far as a movie buff, when I came into the movies at 16, life changed a little bit for me, from an onlooker to a person that lived within the industry. So now I would call myself a different sort of fan.

Debbie Macomber

While it may not be a simple act, offering forgiveness not only has the power to heal relationships, it strengthens the well-being of those who give this life-changing gift.

Debbi Fields

Because what nobody ever understood is that I, too, wanted to be a somebody. But how do you go through life wanting to be a someone and not knowing how?

Debbi Fields

The greatest failure is not to try. Had I listened to all the people during the course of my life who said, "You can't. You'll fail. It won't work. You don't have...," I wouldn't be here today.

Strive not for perfection..but for lives and loves that matter.

Feminism wasn’t supposed to make us miserable. It was supposed to make us free; to give women the power to shape their fortunes and work for a more just world. Today, women have choices that their grandmothers could not have imagined. The challenge lies in recognizing that having choices carries the responsibility to make them wisely, striving not for perfection or the ephemeral all, but for lives and loves that matter.

Andre Agassi

Life will throw everything but the kitchen sink in your path, and then it will throw the kitchen sink. It's your job to avoid the obstacles. If you let them stop you or distract you, you're not doing your job, and failing to do your job will cause regrets that paralyze you more than a bad back.

Anderson Cooper

Anyone who has experienced a certain amount of loss in their life has empathy for those who have experienced loss.

Amber Riley

Not having a private life is hard.

Amber Benson

Life is short, and I'd rather be sitting in the poor house doing what I love doing than making a lot of money and being miserable. Life is very short.

Anthony Powell

On the stage . . . masks are assumed with some regard to procedure; in everyday life, the participants act their parts without consideration either for suitability of scene or for the words spoken by the rest of the cast: the result is a general tendency for things to be brought to the level of farce even when the theme is serious enough.

Anna Pavlova

God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

Anna Quindlen

The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.

Anna Quindlen

Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.

Anna Quindlen

Life is so messy that the temptation to straighten it up is very strong. And the results always illusory.

Anna Quindlen

Life is made up of moments, small pieces of glittering mica in a long stretch of gray cement. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in lives as busy as the ones most of us lead now, that won’t happen. We have to teach ourselves how to make room for them, to love them, and to live, really live.

Anna Quindlen

If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.

Anna Quindlen

I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that this is not a dress rehersal, and that today is the only guarantee you get.

Anna Quindlen

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.

Anna Quindlen

I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was like to be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent remembers what it was like to be a child.

Angie Martinez

We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart.

Donald Trump

When somebody challenges you, fight back. Be brutal, be tough.

Chuck Zito

I've been fighting my whole life.