Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Rutherfurd

She was quiet for a moment or two. Then she said: Cruel words are a terrible thing, Quash. Sometimes you regret them. But what's been said cannot be unsaid.

Edward R. Murrow

Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.

Edward R. Murrow

Learn your language well and command it well, and you will have the first component to life.

Bliss Carman

Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

Billy Joel

The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.

Billy Joel

every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns

Bill Rodgers

Being a runner means you are now 'free' to win and lose and live life to its fullest.

Beverley Nichols

To dig one's own spade into one's own earth! Has life anything better to offer than this?

Bernard Williams

Few things move as quietly as the future.

Edward Hoagland

The zest for life of those unusual men and women who make a great zealous success of living is due more often in good part to the craftiness and pertinacity with which they manage to overlook the misery of others. You can watch them watch life beat the stuffing out of the faces of their friends and acquaintances, although they themselves seem to outwit the dense delays of social custom, the tedious tick-tock of bureaucratic obfuscation, accepting loss and age and change and disappointment without suffering punctures in their stomach lining.

Edward Hoagland

Many divorces are not really the result of irreparable injury but involve, instead, a desire on the part of the man or woman to shatter the setup, start out from scratch alone, and make life work for them all over again. They want the risk of disaster, want to touch bottom, see where bottom is, and, coming up, to breathe the air with relief and relish again.

Edith Piaf

I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.

Edith Sitwell

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

Edith Wharton

We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we?

Edith Wharton

Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

Edith Wharton

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

Eddie Huang

I don’t do coupons or Reeboks. Life is too short to half-step.

David Viscott

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

David Viscott

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

David Hyde Pierce

So much of life is paradox. So much of life is neither one thing nor the other... it's both things at the same time.

David Hobson

Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.

David Icke

Today, the stranglehold of the controlling negative forces upon Earth is extremely advanced and is choking the very life from our planet. The effects of this are evident everywhere in the form of fear, separation, war, disease and multifarious kinds of disharmony on all levels.

David Hume

If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable.

David Hume

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

David Hume

While we are reasoning concerning life, life is gone.

David Hume

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

"With my desire and drive, I definitely wasn't normal. Normal people can be happy with a regular life. I was different. I felt there was more to life than plodding through a normal existence... I have always been impressed by stories of greatness and power. I wanted to do something special, to be recognized as the best. I saw bodybuilding as the vehicle that would take me to the top, and I put all my energy into it." And so with beliefs and dreams like that, he reached the top and everything he has ever done. And it all started in his head... with visions, with dreams, would goals.

Ben Vereen

People talk about love and it seems like a cliche but it's a real thing - the more love we spread around the world the more it's going to change lives.

Benazir Bhutto

My father always would say, "My daughter will go into politics? My daughter will become prime minister", but it's not what I wanted to do. I would say, "No, Papa, I will never go into politics." As I've said before, this is not the life I chose; it chose me ... But I accepted the responsibility and I've never wavered in my commitment.

Beatrice Wood

There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.

Bear Grylls

My faith isn't very churchy, it's a pretty personal, intimate thing and has been a huge source of strength in moments of life and death.

August Strindberg

Meeting each other and leaving each other. Leaving and meeting. That's what life is!