Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pearl S. Buck

To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.

Pearl S. Buck

Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.

Peace Pilgrim

Life is a mixture of successes and failures. May you be encouraged by the successes and strengthened by the failures. As long as you never lose faith in God, you will be victorious over any situation you may face.

Peter Thiel

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.

Peter F. Hamilton

The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.

Pema Chodron

In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest

Pema Chodron

Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.

Payne Stewart

The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, then the next one would fall short, and then the next one would go long.

Peter S. Beagle

Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying -- shameful, even, to come from a minister's lips. Blasphemous, too, properly regarded.

Pedro Almodovar

Hospitals are places that you have to stay in for a long time, even if you are a visitor. Time doesn't seem to pass in the same way in hospitals as it does in other places. Time seems to almost not exist in the same way as it does in other places.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

We may, perhaps, imagine that the creation was finished long ago. But that would be quite wrong. It continues still more magnificently, and at the highest levels of the world.

Phyllis Bottome

Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters.

Phyllis McGinley

Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle or be a failure.

Philip Pullman

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.

Rabindranath Tagore

You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.

Puff Daddy

The sun don't shine forever, but as long as it's here, then we might as well shine together.

Queen Latifah

Sometimes when I am in a situation that I have never been in, I kind of pull back a little bit to observe things; it doesn't really last long though I have to. I've resigned to myself to the fact that I have to be me.

Queen Latifah

People say I'm going to be the next Oprah. But I say no, because Oprah is still Oprah. I'll be the next me. I feel like there's always a lane for me as long as I'm true to myself.

Julian Barnes

You get towards the end of life - no, not life itself, but of something else: the end of any likelihood of change in that life. You are allowed a long moment of pause, time enough to ask the question: what else have I done wrong?

Terence McKenna

A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities.

Teddy Thompson

For a long time I was trying to be poppier and younger. I didn't want to be on public radio or do any of that stuff for older people. Then I realized that that is exactly what I listen to.

Ted Ligety

Something I still work on today is ankle flexion—ankle pressure in your boots. There is no way to turn or have your skis carve unless you’re going down the hill leaning forward, and that puts you in a good athletic position to do whatever you want to do on your skis—make quick turns, make long turns, or absorb bumps.

Ted McGinley

The script comes first. If that isn't good enough, you know it's gonna be a long ride.

Ted Koppel

And there will continue to be a specific threat, and there will continue to be terrorism, as there has been for as long as human history exists.

Ted Hughes

The world rolls under the long thrust of his heel. Over the cage floor the horizons come.

Ted Danson

I had trouble hanging around [Shelley Long] until we stood onstage together, and then I was in heaven.

Randall Munroe

One of the things I've learned with doing 'xkcd' is that you sort of give people, 'Here's the thing, and here's the button you can press to get another thing.' Sometimes that can be more easy to digest than, 'Here's a long page of things.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

Sean Mackin

I don't know where the money would come from, I don't have that answer, but I've been wanting to do something for music education for a long time as it's a big part of not only our band but my whole life.

Sia Furler

There's time limits on how long people's attention spans will work. There's six weeks in each territory that you're really famous, then you, thank god, disappear again.

Sheldon Adelson

I'm against very wealthy ­people attempting to or influencing elections. But as long as it's doable I'm going to do it.

Sheldon Adelson

I look at every business and ask, How long can this last? How can I identify the status quo and change it?