Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Alexander Dubcek

You can crush the flowers, but you can't stop the spring.

Khloe Kardashian

I love hard; I love who I love, and I don't make any qualms about it.

Alexander Pope

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

E. M. Forster

Love is always being given where it is not required.

E. M. Forster

God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.

E. M. Forster

You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.

E. M. Forster

Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul.

E. M. Forster

She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

Charles Bukowski

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Our envy of others devours us most of all.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

Aleister Crowley

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

Dwayne Johnson

Sweet cream on an ice cream sandwich!

Dwayne Johnson

You wanna do this...you wanna go right now...do you want to, GO?...then go get The Rock a bologna sandwich because this doesn't concern you.

Dodie Smith

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

Dolly Parton

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.

Dolly Parton

I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.

Dolly Parton

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde.

Dick Gregory

When I lost my rifle, the Army charged me 85 dollars. That is why in the Navy the Captain goes down with the ship.

Desmond Morris

Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.

Desmond Morris

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.