Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wes Moore

Life's impermanence, I realized, is what makes every single day so precious. It's what shapes our time here. It's what makes it so important than not a single moment be wasted.

Jorge Luis Borges

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Caroline Knapp

Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious and pervasive to be defined. Alcohol is everywhere in your life, omnipresent, and you're both aware and unaware of it almost all the time, all you know is you'd die without it, and there is no simple reason why this happens, no single moment, no physiological event that pushes a heavy drinker across a concrete line into alcoholism. It's a slow, gradual, insidious, elusive becoming.

Marshall McLuhan

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of the photograph that it isolates single moments in time.

Kristen Stewart

I always say every single moment that has led me to this moment has made me who I am.

Pete Wilson

The grateful heart is not developed in a single moment; it is the result of a thousand choices.

Edan Lepucki

I am not sure how a novel changes the world. I think it alters a reader's perspective by asking him or her to see the world through another consciousness. That can perhaps cause people to see their own lives differently. Or just give a single day, a single moment, a slightly different sheen.

Bill Richardson

Raising a family is difficult enough. But it's even more difficult for single parents struggling to make ends meet. They don't need more obstacles. They need more opportunities.

Brian Tracy

Every single moment shapes our future. Be intentional. Live on purpose!

Robert Collier

Make your mold. The best flux in the world will not make a usable shape unless you have a mold to pour it in.

Sarah Rees Brennan

Down the well," Angela repeated, and had to go sit down and hold on to her letter opener. It was in the shape of a dagger. Angela said holding it soothed her; seeing Angela hold it did not soothe Kami.

Rob Bell

We shape our God, and then our God shapes us.

Eric Hoffer

It is startling to see how the oppressed almost invariably shape themselves in the image of their hated oppressors.

Eric Hoffer

However much we guard against it, we tend to shape ourselves in the image others have of us.

Paul Henderson

The Lord expects us to enjoy our lives. He says there will be some brutal times, but we shouldn't get all bent out of shape about it.

Kerri Walsh

It's not a sprint to get in shape.

Nicola Formichetti

The Internet shapes my life and work so completely that I couldn't imagine living without it.

Ben Shahn

Form is the shape of content...

Richard Boucher

The purpose of these talks is to get started,

Tim Wulfemeyer

The purpose of new technology is to democratize the system a little bit.

Mark Dutro

I did that on purpose. We were down by two, and I didn't want to see Montrose win here on our track.

Richard Dawkins

We have to find our own purposes in life, which are not derived directly from our scientific history.

William S. Burroughs

The whole point is, I feel the machine should be eliminated. Now that it has served its purpose of alerting us to the dangers of machine control.

William Matthews

The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose.

Sarah Brady

There is no personal right to be armed for private purposes unrelated to the service in a well regulated militia.

Sara Gilbert

I like that kind of frantic schedule. It makes me feel like I have a purpose.

Richard Flanagan

The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.