Famous Quotes & Sayings

Epicurus

Death is nothing to us: for after our bodies have been dissolved by death they are without sensation, and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. And therefore a right understanding of death makes mortality enjoyable, not because it adds to an infinite span of time, but because it takes away the craving for immortality.

Epicurus

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.

Epictetus

To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.

Emily Blunt

Well, you wear underwear. That helps.

Emily Giffin

I wondered why I was so startled by the encounter when there was something that seemed utterly inevitable about the moment. Not in any grand, destined sense; just in the quiet, stubborn way that unfinished business has of imposing its will on the unwilling.

Emily Giffin

Really-nothing is unforgivable if you truly love someone.

Emeril Lagasse

I spent a lot of time on farms when I was young. My uncle and my dad owned a big farm.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

Henri Pirenne

The Germanic invasions destroyed neither the Mediterranean unity of the ancient world, nor what may be regarded as the truly essential features of the Roman culture as it still existed in the 5th century, at a time when there was no longer an Emperor in the West.

Henri Pirenne

The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was the final separation of East from West, and the end of the Mediterranean unity.

Henri Matisse

A new painting is a unique event, a birth, which enriches the universe as it is grasped by the human mind, by bringing a new form into it.

Henri Nouwen

The mystery of ministry is that we have been chosen to make our own limited and very conditional love the gateway for the unlimited and unconditional love of God.

Henri Nouwen

Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.

Henri Nouwen

I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.

Hesiod

No day is wholly unproductive of good.

Henry Petroski

There's so much written about the Titanic, and it's hard to separate what's fact and what's fiction. My understanding is that the way the Titanic was designed, the emphasis was placed on surviving a head-on collision.

Helen McCrory

If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?

Helen Mirren

The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives.

Heather O'Neill

I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.

Heraclitus

If we do not expect the unexpected, we will never find it.

Heraclitus

There is nothing permanent except change. Nothing is permanent except change. The only constant is change. Change is the only constant. Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.

Heraclitus

If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.

Heraclitus

Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. Nothing endures but change.

Heraclitus

Learning many things does not teach understanding

Henry Ward Beecher

Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.

Henry Jenkins

Transmedia storytelling represents a process where integral elements of a fiction get dispersed systematically across multiple delivery channels for the purpose of creating a unified and coordinated entertainment experience. Ideally, each medium makes its own unique contribution to the unfolding of the story.

Henry James

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

Henry Clay

How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

Only through blind Instinct, in which the only possible guidance of the Imperative is awanting, does the Power in Intuition remain undetermined; where it is schematised as absolute it becomes infinite; and where it is presented in a determinate form, as a principle, it becomes at least manifold. By the above-mentioned act of Intelligising, the Power liberates itself from Instinct, to direct itself towards Unity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.