Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

Baltasar Gracian

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

Albert Einstein

When men are engaged in war and conquest, the tools of science become as dangerous as a razor in the hands of a child of three. We must not condemn man because his inventiveness and patient conquest of the forces of nature are being exploited for false and destructive purposes. Rather, we should remember that the fate of mankind hinges entirely upon man’s moral development.

Anthony Hamilton

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It's a voice of pain and victory.

Thomas Huxley

It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is only the people who have to stop to be washed and made clean, who must necessarily lose the race. And I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance

Rumi

When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it.

Steve Harvey

If you pray about it don't worry about it. If you're going to worry about it don't pray about it.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

He who says patience, says courage, endurance, strength.

Michael Haneke

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.

Billy Corgan

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.

Shaun White

What a strange bunch. Where would one find a Fabio cutout?

Dolly Parton

Some things are strange to me, and some things are odd. But I don't condemn. If you can accept me, I can accept you.

Albert Camus

For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself.

Clemence Poesy

I've often been told that I'm a bit strange. I hear that pretty regularly, but it is not how I see myself.

Simone de Beauvoir

The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole ...

Tilda Swinton

I'm just really old [in Doctor Strange]. Just really, really old. There is I suppose a sort of theme tune which I'm really interested in.

Tim Duncan

In all seriousness, it really should be difficult for me to be too strange. After all, a great family raised me.

Suzanne Collins

It's strange to be so physically close to someone who's so distant

Charles Peguy

Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics.

Douglas Adams

I rarely end up where I was intending to go, but often I end up somewhere I needed to be.

Czeslaw Milosz

All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.

T. S. Eliot

To make an end is to make a beginning.

John Milton

Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

Shawn Ryan

The worst thing you can do is end up with a network show on cable or end up with a cable show on network.

George Orwell

The end was contained in the beginning.

George Bernard Shaw

All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

Emma Forrest

Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” Yes. “Are you mine?” No. “No?” No. I loved being yours. But now I’m mine, which is all I ever was, in the end.