Famous Quotes & Sayings

Angelina Jolie

I just started to see the world as it really is and it completely shocked me and changed my opinion on everything.. on life and my values and certainly my own sense of self.

Andrew Cohen

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

Anthony Hamilton

I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given.

Anthony de Mello

The way to really live is to die. The passport to living is to imagine yourself in your grave. Imagine you're lying in your coffin....Now look at your problems from that viewpoint. Changes everything, doesn't it?

Anthony de Mello

You only change what you understand. What you do not understand and are not aware of, you repress. You dont change. But when you understand it, it changes.

Anthony de Mello

I was neurotic for years. I was anxious and depressed and selfish. Everyone kept telling me to change. I resented them and I agreed with them, and I wanted to change, but simply couldn't, no matter how hard I tried. Then one day someone said to me, Don't change. I love you just as you are. Those words were music to my ears: Don't change, Don't change. Don't change . . . I love you as you are. I relaxed. I came alive. And suddenly I changed!

Anne Sexton

Rocks crumble, make new forms, oceans move the continents, mountains rise up and down like ghosts yet all is natural, all is change.

Anne Rice

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

Anita Hill

When I think of what has happened in a larger sense, beyond myself, then I would not change anything.

Edsger Dijkstra

A convincing demonstration of correctness being impossible as long as the mechanism is regarded as a black box, our only hope lies in not regarding the mechanism as a black box.

Alice Hoffman

I thought you were supposed to be the champion of your people,' I said. I live because I need to do that. For anyone who is left.' Don't you see? No one will be left. Protect them now or there will be no one to protect!' This is a battle that goes on and on. It never ends. You're too young to understand. No! You're too much of a coward to fight.' I was sick of lies and secrets and of battles so old we had to erase who we were to fight back. And still we lost. Still we were tied to posts.

Albert Camus

The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation.

Albert Camus

Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.

Albert Camus

The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression.

Albert Camus

A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.

Albert Camus

Liberty is the right not to lie.

Albert Camus

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

Annie Besant

If my interlocutor desires to convince me that Jupiter has inhabitants, and that his description of them is accurate, it is for him to bring forward evidence in support of his contention. The burden of proof evidently lies on him; it is not for me to prove that no such beings exist before my non-belief is justified, but for him to prove that they do exist before my belief can be fairly claimed. Similarly, it is for the affirmer of God's existence to bring evidence in support of his affirmation; the burden of proof lies on him.

Just because swans mate for life, I don't think its that big a deal. First of all, if you're a swan, you're probably not going to find a swan that looks much better than the one you've got, so why not mate for life?

Tori Amos

God sometimes you just don't come through, Do you need a woman to look after you?

Eric Braeden

Some situations are so hopeless when you look at them from the outside you say, Why are they still married?

Bobby Heenan

You're 83? Really? You don't look it. I would've guessed 81 or 82.

Mark DiCamillo

There are large-scale differences between voters here (on the coast) and voters inland. Within California's borders, there's a red-state region that looks a lot like the Midwest.

Tommy Amaker

When you look at their team, it looks like they're defending. It looks like they're having some fun.

Jack Foster

We think the U.S. looks one of the the most overpriced property share markets around the globe.

John Pavlos

Why did they wait, not only until the 11th hour, but it looks like the 13th hour?

Ram Dass

When you get old, everything changes - your body changes, your family changes. You can't do what you've always done, anymore. And, either you can complain about things changing - or you can be content. Instead of complaining, you can say: "Oh, yesss! Look at all this change!" You can welcome it.