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.

William J. Clinton

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

William James

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William Howard Taft

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

Warren Buffett

Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

Virginia Woolf

I am rooted, but I flow.

Werner Erhard

Living is not the story of your life. Living is the process of experiencing right now.

Salma Hayek

When you are passionate about life, it keeps you young. Sometimes I wake up at 4:00 am just to see how my roses look.

Robertson Davies

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The true wisdom is to be always seasonable, and to change with a good grace in changing circumstances.

John Green

I think instead writers and publishers and readers need to go to the places where people are, and make the argument that there is great value to the quiet, contemplative process of reading a novel, that reading great books carefully offers pleasures and consolations that no iPad app ever can.

Bill Schneider

His whole argument is 'Vote for me, and this is how I'm going to do it. I'm going to beat Bush, and here's how.' That's his whole campaign.

William Hazlitt

There is no force but argument in the case, and it is reason, not the will of another, that gives the law.

John Roberts

I think that civil liberties types will make an argument that the lure of chat lines may be too much. And maybe that will not be a fair use of the limited rights granted police authorities to use entrapments.

William Shakespeare

I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.

Bill Schneider

He's been focusing entirely on Bush, trying to continue the argument that he can take the fight to Bush,

Steve Bloom

There is an argument that medical marijuana is a back door to (recreational) legalization, ... I don't think that, but I do believe it's opening the door for people to learn about the plant.

Scott Moss

There is an argument that it would be appropriate now. But I doubt that will happen.

Rohan Edrisinha

There is an argument that both sides are simply going through the motions to convince the international community they have exhausted peaceful options but that both really have decided conflict is inevitable.