Famous Quotes & Sayings

Reinhold Niebuhr

Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.

Ursula K. Le Guin

We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

Nadine Gordimer

Fiction is a way of exploring possibilities present but undreamt of in the living of a single life.

Brendan Gill

We must all face the fact that in a single lifetime we lead several simultaneous lives; our intention should be to make them reinforce one another instead of colliding.

Don Herold

Intellectuals should never marry; they won't enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves.

Ray Davies

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.

Stephanie Klein

I spent my whole single life trying to be thin just to find someone who'd love me once I got fat.

Seth MacFarlane

There are things about the single lifestyle that are very appealing.

John Walker Lindh

I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.

Ben Cherington

We may see some of the same faces back this season.

Will Durant

Often your face is your autobiography

Salma Hayek

I've never had anything done on my face. I've never had dermabrasion or peels or injections of any kind, nothing.

Saul Bellow

At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.

Ronnie Wood

Let's face it: I paint well. I know it, you know it. There's no arguing really, is there?

Zach Braff

Let's face it, it's only called Scrubs because I'm saving 'Zach Braff' for my autobiography.

William Golding

If faces were different when lit from above or below -- what was a face? What was anything?

David McKay

I'm keen to see some new faces and think it's time for that to happen,

Marcel Proust

And so when studying faces, we do indeed measure them, but as painters, not as surveyors.

Howard Simon

Kids now are smarter than we were. They want the facts. They want to know what's happening. That's why being open and honest with them is so important.

Richard P. Feynman

It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.

Richard Dawkins

...there are no natural borderlines in evolution. The illusion of a borderline is created by the fact that the evolutionary intermediates happen to be extinct.

Richard Widmark

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.

Richelle Mead

In fact I was fairly certain there was no one in the entire world quite like Adrian Ivashkov.

Umberto Eco

The Roseicrucians were everywhere, aided by the fact that they didn't exist.

William Manchester

The sum of a million facts is not the truth.

Woodrow Wilson

The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

William J. Clinton

I did have a relationship with Ms Lewinsky that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a personal failure on my part for which I am solely and completely responsible.