Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

I was not born to be forced.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.

Jean Genet

It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.

Harville Hendrix

We are born in relationship, we are wounded in relationship, and we can be healed in relationship.

Jacques Derrida

Who ever said that one was born just once?

Pat Conroy

Graham is as Southern as black-eyed peas, scuppernong wine, she-crab soup, Crimson Tide tailgating and a dog with ticks. She is so relentlessly Southern she makes me feel that I was born in Minnesota!

Imelda Marcos

I was no Marie Antoinette. I was not born to nobility, but I had a human right to nobility.

Huston Smith

The faith I was born into formed me.

Grant Bowler

I was born in New Zealand, so I have a lot of family there.

Rabindranath Tagore

Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets, they who are seers, seek to express the universe in terms of music... The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.

Ai Weiwei

You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.

Marcel Proust

We are healed of a suffering only by expressing it to the full.

Alice Walker

Resistance is the secret of joy!

Rumi

I will find new meaning in every joy and sorrow.

Rumi

If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.

Stella Young

I dance as a political statement, because disabled bodies are inherently political, but I mostly dance for all the same reasons anyone else does: because it heals my spirit and fills me with joy.

Shawn Achor

Happiness is the joy we feel striving after our potential.

Shawn Achor

The way we define happiness is the joy you feel striving toward your potential

Robert Browning

Sing, riding 's a joy! For me I ride.

Robert Browning

Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.

Richard Ashcroft

I don't know if I have a problem expressing joy, but the difficulty is in making an album, a piece of music that really does reflect life rather than the one dimension. I have a problem in trying to make a complete trip record.

David Miliband

I've learnt that, sometimes, how others see you is not the same as how you see yourself. I've learnt about how you can be multitasking - and sometimes other people see that you're multitasking. And that's not very nice for them.

Julia Voth

I've always surrounded myself with people who are driven. You can be gorgeous, but if you don't want to work for it, nothing is not going to happen.

Amanda Abbington

I've always wanted to make sure people are okay, ever since I was a little girl.

John Mackey

I've been amazed at how quickly people can heal themselves, actually.

Jeff Greene

I've been a friend to people who may not have had perfect pasts.

Ed Jovanovski

I've been around long enough that people know what kind of player I am and I think there's only an upside to all this.

Lorde

I've always hung out with people older than me, with my parents' friends, because I appreciated the conversation.

J. August Richards

I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!

Stephen A. Schwarzman

I've always been comfortable with people who run things, whether it was the principal of my high school or the president of the university.

Bill James

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses. Anyone can become a drug addict if you let yourself do it and, once you become a drug addict, you'll do whatever you have to to get the drugs. Absolutely, anybody can do it.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Normally as an actress you're constantly worried that people think you don't look good enough. It's just like an unnecessary stress that's just frustrating.

Marilu Henner

I also think stress is related to control. When you're in charge of your life, you tend to not care about losing control of things that don't really matter like traffic jams.

Marilu Henner

Often when a person can't get past stress, she will turn to overeating, drinking or smoking, which can become a greater problem than the stress itself.

Marilu Henner

Being in control of your life and having realistic expectations about your day-to-day challenges are the keys to stress management, which is perhaps the most important ingredient to living a happy, healthy and rewarding life.

Marilu Henner

Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life.

Missy Franklin

I don't think about the trials and the Olympics a lot. If I do, it's just going to stress me out and get me worried.

Peter Andre

It's amazing how stress keeps you trim.

Peggy Noonan

What we need most right now, at this moment, is a kind of patriotic grace - a grace that takes the long view, apprehends the moment we're in, comes up with ways of dealing with it, and eschews the politically cheap and manipulative. That admits affection and respect. That encourages them. That acknowledges that the small things that divide us are not worthy of the moment; that agrees that the things that can be done to ease the stresses we feel as a nation should be encouraged, while those that encourage our cohesion as a nation should be supported.

Andrew Kluger

They want to make sure everything is how they would like to see it.

Lisa Richardson

They have to make sure everything is working correctly.

Linda Gilliland

They just got beat. I'm not sure what happened.

Mark Taylor

It's important to make sure everyone's vote is counted,

Janie Bess

It was a mess. There was water everywhere. But he was so happy. It took him all day to wash three plates. But he made sure they were clean.

Dusty Baker

I've got to talk to him first. I'm sure he wants to get back to .500.

Dave Osborn

It's like any service. If it's not being used, I'm not sure it's worth running.

Jerry Jones

That's a little heavy. I'm not sure about him; that hurts, buries you.

Ayrton Senna

The day it arrives, it will arrive. It could be today or 50 years later. The only sure thing is that it will arrive.