Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. M. Forster

Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.

E. M. Forster

One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.

E. M. Forster

I love love I love being in love I don't care what it does to me The Format, in "Inches and Failing". Masood, a young lady has fallen in love with me-at least so I judge from her letters. Awkward is it not-awkward and surprising. You would be flattered and twirl your moustache, but I am merely uncomfortable. I wish she would stop, as she is very nice, and I enjoyed being friends. What an ill constructed world this is! Love is always being given where it is not required.

E. M. Forster

Life - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week.

E. M. Forster

Life is like a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the intrument as you go along

E. M. Forster

The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.

E. M. Forster

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

E. M. Forster

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Drew Barrymore

I don't think that life happens by sitting back and waiting. People hold their cards so tight to their chest. Life is short. Tell people you love them. What's the worst that's going to happen?

Douglas MacArthur

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

Douglas MacArthur

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Douglas MacArthur

I promise to keep on living as though I expected to live forever. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only be deserting their ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.

Douglas MacArthur

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

Douglas MacArthur

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

Douglas MacArthur

By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder - infinitely prouder - to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, Our Father Who Art in Heaven.

Doug Larson

A lifetime isn't nearly long enough to figure out what it's all about.

Don DeLillo

The term itself--my life--is a desperate overstatement.

Don DeLillo

The shock, the power of an ordinary life. It is a thing you could not invent with banks of computers in a dust-free room.

Don DeLillo

Some people fake their death, I'm faking my life.

Don DeLillo

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking, feeling, lost in memory, dreamingly self-aware, the submicroscopic moments.

Douglas Coupland

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

Douglas Coupland

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

Douglas Coupland

If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?

Douglas Coupland

The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water.

Douglas Coupland

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

Douglas Coupland

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Donald Trump

Life is what you do while you're waiting to die.

Donald Trump

Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.

Donald Trump

As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.

Donald Trump

Our inner cities are a disaster. You get shot walking to the store. They have no education. They have no jobs. I will do more for African-Americans and Latinos than Hillary Clinton can ever do in 10 lifetimes.

Dwight L. Moody

The grand question of life is, Is my name written in heaven?

Duke of Wellington

I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.

Douglas William Jerrold

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.