Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Joyce

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

James Russell Lowell

Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low; Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all; Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.

James Russell Lowell

Here come the hum the golden bees Underneath full blossomed trees, At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.

Friedrich Schiller

If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Buckminster Fuller himself was fond of stating that what seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story of what is really going on. He liked to point out that for the honey bee, it is the honey that is important. But the bee is at the same time nature's vehicle for carrying out cross-pollination of the flowers. Interconnectedness is a fundamental principle of nature. Nothing is isolated. Each event connects with others.

Luc de Clapiers

Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.

Longchenpa

Let the flower of compassion blossom in the rich soil of maître, and water it with the good water of equanimity in the cool, refreshing shade of joy.

John Clare

Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers.

Lurlene McDaniel

The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.

Art Buchwald

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.

Eckhart Tolle

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

Aldous Huxley

We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability.

Alexander Pope

But to the world no bugbear is so great, As want of figure and a small estate.

Alexander Pope

Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains, 'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains: And grant the bad what happiness they would, One they must want--which is, to pass for good.

Alex Kapranos

Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.

Albert Pujols

When you get a walk-off homer, you get to do whatever you want. You need to be excited about it. You don't get too many of those, so you need to enjoy them when they come.

Debbie Ford

If we want to know what we're really committed to, all we have to do is look at our lives.

E. L. James

Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

Lauren Oliver

Here's another thing to remember: hope keeps you alive. Even when you're dead, it's the only thing that keeps you alive.

Lauren Oliver

Is this freedom? Is it happiness? I don't know. I don't care anymore. It is different--it is being alive.

Lauren Oliver

Hope keeps you alive.

L. Frank Baum

But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.

Paul Cezanne

It is not about painting life, it is about making painting alive.

Margaret Atwood

If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive.

Margaret Atwood

If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive.

John Casto

A person said: 'There are miracles - 12 alive and one dead'.