Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Warhol

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

Andy Warhol

I broke something and realized I should break something once a week to remind me how fragile life is.

Andrew Schneider

Despite everything I've achieved in my life, the culinary awards, the military commendations, the honorary degrees, I have never, ever lost sight of what's truly important. The thing that gives meaning to these triumphs. Someone to share them with. A companion. A help mate. A wife.

Andrew Schneider

Life's dirty. Life's unclean you know. It's birth, it's sex, it's the intestinal tract. One big squishy, unsanitary mess. It never gets any cleaner either. You know, dust to dust, worms crawl in, worms crawl out, right Even though we know that, we still walk the walk, we still live the life. We're like a bunch of little kids. Little kids, you know, we jump in this big old pond of mud and we're slapping it all over our face, rubbing our hair all down our backs and we're making these glorious, gooey, mud pies. That's us.

Andre Breton

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

Andre Gide

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Andre Gide

Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.

Andre Gide

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Andre Gide

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

Andre Gide

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Andre Gide

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

Andre Gide

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

Andre Gide

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

Andre Gide

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

Ann Rinaldi

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

Ann Richards

There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.

Ann Patchett

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

Aneurin Bevan

Virtue is its own punishment.

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.