Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ani Difranco

First decide what you got to do, then go out and do it. All we can do is to see each other through it.

Ani Difranco

It's not important to be defined, it's only important to use your time well.

Ani Difranco

We get a little further from perfection each year. I think that's called character. I think that's just how it goes.

Ani Difranco

Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

Andrew Marvell

What wondrous life is this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass.

Andrew McMahon

I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.

Andrew Mason

Life is too short to be a boring company.

Amy Lowell

Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart.

Amy Lowell

To-night when the full-bellied moon swallows the stars. Grant that I know.

Amy Poehler

Saying "yes" doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying "please" doesn't mean I am waiting for permission.

Ally Carter

Life is classified. There is always so much that goes unsaid.

Allen Iverson

Life is short. Im gonna be happy with mine.

Allen Ginsberg

Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control.

Alistair MacLeod

No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.

Alicia Machado

Every day I am trying to improve my life.

Anthony Hopkins

Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.

Anthony Hopkins

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.

Ann Landers

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

Ann Landers

When life's problems seem overwhelming, look around and see what other people are coping with. You may consider yourself fortunate.

Ann Landers

The real trick is to stay alive as long as you live.

Ann Brashares

Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.

Ann Brashares

It was hard to feel the right emotions at the right times. They didn’t come at all when you set a place for them, and they sacked when you weren’t ready, when you were just innocently flossing your teeth, for example, or eating a bowl of cereal.

Ann Brashares

Carmen hated the 'life is too short" rationalization. She thought it was one of the lamer excuses in the history of excuse-making. Whenever you did something because "life is too short not to," you could be sure life would be just long enough to punish you for it.

Ann Brashares

Love is like war; easy to begin, hard to end.

Ann Brashares

Not all who wander are lost

Ann Brashares

Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.

Andy Andrews

Whatever you focus upon, increases......When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing......A grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

Andy Andrews

The longer you've known someone- the more history there is between you- the longer it will take to establish in their mind that you have truly changed. Remember, forgiveness is an altogether different thing from trust or respect. Forgiveness is about the past. Trust and respect are about the future. Forgiveness will be in the hands of others and cna be given to you, but trust and respect are in your own hands and must be earned.

Andy Andrews

Remember, whatever you focus upon, increases...When you focus on the things you need, you'll find those needs increasing. If you concentrate your thoughts on what you don't have, you will soon be concentrating on other things that you had forgotten you don't have-and feel worse! If you set your mind on loss, you are more likely to lose...But a grateful perspective brings happiness and abundance into a person's life.

Andy Andrews

If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big ‘however’- most people do not ever know why their apology did not seem to have any effect. It is simply that they did not make a mistake; they made a choice…and never understood the difference between the two.

Andy Andrews

Circumstances do not push or pull. They are daily lessons to be studied and gleaned for new knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge and wisdom that is applied will bring about a brighter tomorrow. A person who is depressed is spending too much time thinking about the way things are now and not enough time thinking about how he wants things to be.

Andy Andrews

My life - my personality, my habits, even my speech - is a combination of the books I choose to read, the people I choose to listen to, and the thoughts I choose to tolerate in my mind

Andy Andrews

Well, that's why smart people get tripped up with worry and fear. Worry...fear...is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has been placed in each of us. Because we are smart and creative, we imagine all the things that could happen, that might happen, that will happen if this or that happens. See what I mean?