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.

Ayn Rand

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

Charles Kettering

It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

Christy Porter

We weren't giving up. We had gotten this far.

Trent Strickland

We showed a lot of heart. We seniors talked a lot about giving it all we had and leaving everything on the floor. We've thought all year that we were better than we have showed.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

We've got to figure out a way that we give a private sphere for our public leaders. We're not gonna get the best people in public life if we don't do that.

Doris Lessing

All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.

Doris Lessing

What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away.

Doris Lessing

Everyone knows that where there is something that is capable of giving profit, then exploited it will be.

Doris Lessing

Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.

David Miliband

I've learnt that, sometimes, how others see you is not the same as how you see yourself. I've learnt about how you can be multitasking - and sometimes other people see that you're multitasking. And that's not very nice for them.

Julia Voth

I've always surrounded myself with people who are driven. You can be gorgeous, but if you don't want to work for it, nothing is not going to happen.

Amanda Abbington

I've always wanted to make sure people are okay, ever since I was a little girl.

John Mackey

I've been amazed at how quickly people can heal themselves, actually.

Jeff Greene

I've been a friend to people who may not have had perfect pasts.

Ed Jovanovski

I've been around long enough that people know what kind of player I am and I think there's only an upside to all this.

Lorde

I've always hung out with people older than me, with my parents' friends, because I appreciated the conversation.

J. August Richards

I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!

Stephen A. Schwarzman

I've always been comfortable with people who run things, whether it was the principal of my high school or the president of the university.