Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Pope

Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.

Alexander Pope

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

Alexander Pope

Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.

Alexander Pope

This long disease, my life.

Alexander Pope

Passions are the gales of life.

Alexander Pope

Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Alexander Pope

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

Alexander Pope

How vast a memory has Love!

Alexander Pope

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.

Alex Kingston

If you are the one who is dumped, then you feel like your life is over.

Alex Haley

Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.

Albert Schweitzer

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

Albert Schweitzer

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations of the same living matter. This adapts itself to different jobs and circumstances, but operates on the same basic principles. Muscle contraction is only one of these adaptations. In principle it would not matter whether we studied nerve, kidney or muscle to understand the basic principles of life. In practice, however, it matters a great deal.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

It is impossible to encircle the hips of a girl with my right arm and hold her smile in my left hand, then proceed to study the two items separately. Similarly, we can not separate life from living matter, in order to study only living matter and its reactions. Inevitably, studying living matter and its reactions, we study life itself

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Life is a wondrous phenomenon.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Think boldly. Don't be afraid of making mistakes. Don't miss small details, keep your eyes open and be modest in everything except your aims.

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.

Albert Schweitzer

I have given up the ambition to be a great scholar. I want to be more- simply a human. . . . We are not true humans, but beings who live by a civilization inherited from the past, that keeps us hostage, that confines us. No freedom of movement. Nothing. Everything in us is killed by our calculations for our future, by our social position and cast. You see, I am not happy-yet I am happy. I suffer, but that is part of life. I live, I don't care about my existence, and that is the beginning of wisdom.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life is the highest court of appeal.

Albert Schweitzer

The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.

Albert Schweitzer

If you study life deeply, its profundity will seize you suddenly with dizziness.

Deborah Davis

If there was a volcano under their feet, a Vesuvius that could erupt and bury this modern-day Pompeii at any moment, the best thing to do was dance on it.

Debby Ryan

It's really special to be a part of something that's really changing lives.

Debbie Ford

When you learn that you can trust life, life will deliver treasures beyond your imagination.

E. L. Konigsburg

Sometimes we even have to risk making fools of ourselves.

E. M. Forster

Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.

E. M. Forster

Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.

E. M. Forster

Not only in sex, but in all things men have moved blindly, have evolved out of slime to dissolve into it when this accident of consequences is over.

E. M. Forster

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.