Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Young

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

Andrew Young

I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.

Andres Serrano

One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.

Anaxagoras

The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.

Chuck Palahniuk

Love and life belongs to great risk.

Chuck Palahniuk

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

Chuck Palahniuk

We just had a near-life experience!

Chuck Palahniuk

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice.

Chuck Palahniuk

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

Chuck Palahniuk

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

Chuck Palahniuk

What if reality is nothing but some disease?

Chuck Palahniuk

You are permanent, but this life is not.

Chuck Palahniuk

Narrator: You had to give it to him: he had a plan. And it started to make sense, in a Tyler sort of way. No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

Chuck Palahniuk

There's always the chance you could die right in the middle of your life story.

Chuck Palahniuk

Life is short, death is forever

Chuck Palahniuk

Without just one nest A bird can call the world home Life is your career

Chuck Palahniuk

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

Chuck Palahniuk

Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

Chuck Palahniuk

People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

Chuck Palahniuk

I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.

Chuck Palahniuk

The answer is there is no answer.

Chuck Palahniuk

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Chuck Palahniuk

I don't want to die without any scars.

Chuck Palahniuk

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

Chuck Palahniuk

Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.

Chuck Hagel

I don't think it's a matter of going back and having a review of our process. Our process is about as thorough as there can be. Is it imperfect? Yes. Is there risk? Yes, but we start with the fact that we have an American that's being held hostage and that American's life is in danger and that's where we start. And then we proceed from there.

Christy Turlington

Pranayama is the practice of breath control. The word prana refers not only to breath, but also to air and life itself.

Christopher Reeve

Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.

Christopher Paolini

Life is too short to fight every idiot along your way.

Christopher Paolini

First, let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered... . Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not. Consider none your superior whatever their rank or station in life. Treat all fairly, or they will seek revenge. Be careful with your money. Hold fast to your beliefs and others will listen.

Christopher McCandless

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

Christopher Marlowe

Love me little, love me long.