Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bella Thorne

My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at prom.

Source Unknown

Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Christopher Reeve

I have never been disabled in my dreams.

Alice Walker

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions, and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

Alice Munro

In dreams you can have the feeling that you've had this dream before, that you have this dream over and over again, and you know that it's really nothing that simple. You know that there's a whole underground system that you call 'dreams,' having nothing better to call them, and that this system is not like roads or tunnels but more like a live body network, all coiling and stretching, unpredictable but finally familiar - where you are now, where you've always been.

Alice Hoffman

Love was like that, like a dream you didn't quite understand, one in which you didn't necessarily know what you were looking at until it was right in front of you.

Alice Hoffman

He believed in dreams, in endings that people told you could never happen, in disappointments reversed and luck that lasted.

Alice Hoffman

I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?

Alice Hoffman

I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.

Ally Condie

Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.

Anthony de Mello

Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

Anthony de Mello

Let’s suppose that rain washes out a picnic. Who is feeling negative? The rain? Or you? What’s causing the negative feeling? The rain or your reaction? When you bump your knee against a table, the table’s fine. It’s busy being what it was made to be – a table. The pain is in your knee, not in the table. The mystics keep trying to tell us that reality is all right. Reality is not problematic. Problems exist only in the human mind. We might add: in the stupid, sleeping human mind.

Annette Funicello

Pain is a part of life...misery is an option.

Cristina Saralegui

I'm a royal pain in the behind.

Conor Oberst

I wanna be your happiness. I wanna be your common sense pain.

Clarence Darrow

When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are approaching an inevitable doom: the consciousness of it should make us more kindly and considerate of each other. This feeling should make men and women use their best efforts to help their fellow travelers on the road, to make the path brighter and easier as we journey on. It should bring a closer kinship, a better understanding, and a deeper sympathy for the wayfarers who must live a common life and die a common death.

Daniel Dennett

I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.

Dan Brown

Pain is a part of growing-up. It is how we learn..

Richard Leakey

Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of plaster of Paris', thus making it impossible to draw any firm conclusion about what species she belonged to.

T. D. Jakes

I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.

Iyanla Vanzant

For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Friedrich Schiller

Cling to thy native land, for it is the land of thy fathers?

Phil Collins

I am stopping so I can be a full-time father to my two young sons on a daily basis.

Ralph Kiner

On Father's Day, we again wish you all happy birthday.

Lady Gaga

I realized my father's sister Joanne, who died at 19 had instilled her spirit in me.

John Malkovich

My father was a very contradictory man.

John Locke

Reason is natural revelation, whereby the eternal father of light, and fountain of all knowledge, communicates to mankind that portion of truth which he has laid within the reach of their natural faculties: revelation is natural reason enlarged by a new set of discoveries communicated by God. . . .