Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments.

Rebecca West

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.

William Shatner

The good life is one that's artistically made.

Roald Dahl

If you are good life is good.

Sasha Alexander

I don't know. I think you're born with that. I've always been somebody that enjoys life. I want to be happy in it, and I've always been that way. Since I was a kid, I really was somebody that was active. It's just an inner drive, and a willingness to lead a good life.

Sarah Vowell

But I have never had the privilege of unhappiness in Happy Valley. California is about the good life. So a bad life there seems so much worse than a bad life anywhere else. Quality is an obsession there—good food, good wine, good movies, music, weather, cars. Those sound like the right things to shoot for, but the never-ending quality quest is a lot of pressure when you’re uncertain and disorganized and, not least, broker than broke. Some afternoons a person just wants to rent Die Hard, close the curtains, and have Cheerios for lunch.

Vincent Nichols

The only thing that I am ambitious about is to live a good life. Full stop.

Wallace Stegner

It is love and friendship, the sanctity and celebration of our relationships, that not only support a good life, but create one. Through friendships, we spark and inspire one another's ambitions.

Virginia Gildersleeve

I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?

Eric Ries

At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar.

Larry Ellison

Everyone thought the acquisition strategy was extremely risky because no one had ever done it successfully. In other words, it was innovative.

Kate Morton

Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies.

Leo Tolstoy

But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.

Ramana Maharshi

Realisation is not acquisition of anything new nor is it a new faculty. It is only removal of all camouflage

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others.

Edgar Allan Poe

Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge

Anna Seward

A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.

Richard J. Roberts

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

Robin Wright

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Robert Cray

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Richard M. Nixon

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Ricardo Semler

It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A more humane, trusting, productive, exhilarating, and, in every sense, rewarding way.

Tupac Shakur

Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.

Tupac Shakur

Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble.

Tupac Shakur

I'm on my knees begging, please come and save me.