Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Bukowski

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

Algernon Sidney

It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun

Alfred Kastler

We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.

Alfred Jarry

Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

God and Nature met in light.

Aldous Huxley

The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information.

Albert Pike

The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.

Albert Pike

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

Albert Pike

Masonry is a search after Light. That search leads us directly back, as you see, to the Kabalah.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Sam Lewis

During the playoffs the teams really come at you and we're going to be the team to beat.

Dustin Pedroia

I hope to play for the Red Sox a long time.

Duncan Sheik

If I were to do this over I'd play a lot more shows before I made a record

Dustin Hoffman

Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why

Drew Houston

Software touches all of these different things you use, and tech companies are revolutionizing all different areas of the world...from how we shop to how farming works, all these things that aren't technical are being turned upside down by software. So being able to play in that universe really makes a difference.

Donald Trump

When you have momentum going, play the momentum

Adelaide Clemens

Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type.

Adam Rich

We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that.

Alex Haley

I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.

Whoopi Goldberg

Taliban-esque: Any behavior that imposes the beliefs of one person on everyone else. Conversations with the Taliban-esque are impossible. They aren't even conversations. With them, it's my way or no way.

Saint Augustine

I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.

Zoltan Kodaly

Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime

Twyla Tharp

Any comic is a tragic soul. Comedy is one of the things that allows one to survive. Particularly if one has been in the process of separating off the emotions, it's one place you can process them.

Wassily Kandinsky

Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.

William Booth

Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.

William Davenant

Generous souls Are still most subject to credulity.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

To desire with one’s very soul every second of every day to accomplish one’s aim.