Famous Quotes & Sayings

Angelina Jolie

I think as a human being, as a mother, as someone who works internationally, I needed desperately to know a man like Louis Zamperini in my life, to know that there is hope.

Angelina Jolie

There's something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

Angelina Jolie

The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy.

Andrew Clements

Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?

Andrew Carnegie

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Amy Alcott

Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life not to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Every noble life becomes a revelation of the spirit which the love and joy of mankind cannot let perish from remembrance.

Amos Bronson Alcott

One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Life is one, religion one, creeds are many and diverse.

Amos Bronson Alcott

The less routine the more life.

Ally Condie

I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.

Ally Condie

So much of life is in the smallness of moments...but they are harder to mark. So we need the grander celebrations and occasions. People like to feel significant.

Anthony Doerr

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

Anthony de Mello

We're crazy, We're living on crazy ideas about love, about relationships, about happiness, about joy, about everything.

Anthony de Mello

Most people don't live aware lives. They live mechanical lives, mechanical thoughts - generally somebody else's - mechanical emotions, mechanical actions, mechanical reactions.

Anthony de Mello

When you cling, life is destroyed; when you hold on to anything, you cease to live.

Anthony de Mello

You know, all mystics - Catholic, Christian, non-Christian, no matter what their theology, no matter what their religion - are unanimous on one thing: that all is well, all is well. Though everything is a mess, all is well. Strange paradox, to be sure. But, tragically, most people never get to see that all is well because they are asleep. They are having a nightmare.

Anthony de Mello

Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.

Anthony de Mello

There's only one reason why you're not experiencing bliss at this present moment, and it's because you're thinking or focusing on what you don't have....But, right now you have everything you need to be in bliss.

Anne Sweeney

It's not the balanced life we remember, it's the beautiful life.

Annette Funicello

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

Anne Tyler

How plotless real life was!

Anne Tyler

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Life! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; Tis hard to part when friends are dear,- Perhaps 'twill cost a sigh, a tear. Then steal away, give little warning. Choose thine own time, Say not "Good-night," but in some brighter clime, Bid me "Good-morning."

Anna Letitia Barbauld

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

Anne Rivers Siddons

Perhaps the most important thing we can ever do in our lives is find a way to keep the wild-both the wild inside and the wild outside us-and tap into it.

Anne Roiphe

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.

Anne Sexton

What's the point of fighting the dollars when all you need is a warm bed? When the dog barks you let him in. All we need is someone to let us in. And one other thing: to consider the lilies in the field.

Anne Sexton

I am out of practice at living. You are as brave as a motorcycle.

Anne Sexton

Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren

Anne Sexton

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

Anne Sexton

So I won't hang around in my hospital shift, repeating The Black Mass and all of it. I say Live, Live because of the sun, the dream, the excitable gift.