Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Christopher Marlowe

You must be proud, bold, pleasant, resolute, And now and then stab, when occasion serves.

Christopher Morley

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.

Christopher Morley

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Christopher Moore

Children see magic because they look for it.

Anselm of Canterbury

A Prayer of Anselm My God, I pray that I may so know you and love you that I may rejoice in you. And if I may not do so fully in this life let me go steadily on to the day when I come to that fullness . . . Let me receive That which you promised through your truth, that my joy may be full.

Annie Proulx

We face up to awful things because we can't go around them, or forget them. The sooner you say 'Yes, it happened, and there's nothing I can do about it,' the sooner you can get on with your own life. You've got children to bring up. So you've got to get over it. What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things.

Ansel Adams

The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.

Ansel Adams

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Anne Bancroft

A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.

Anne Bradstreet

We must, therefore, be here as strangers and pilgrims, that we may plainly declare that we seek a city above.

Anne Bradstreet

Wisdom with an inheritance is good, but wisdom without an inheritance is better than an inheritance without wisdom.

Anne Bradstreet

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Anne Bronte

But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.

Angelina Jolie

I want to take time to understand life. I want to travel. I want to be a better person, a better Mom. I want to do something good with my life.