Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Natalie Clifford Barney

There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no one has thought out, and which are excluded for lack of interpreters.

Nora Roberts

I've gotten to know a number of readers from being online, and really treasure the time I've spent with them.

Nora Ephron

What my mother believed about cooking is that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

Edward Hoagland

Like a kick in the butt, the force of events wakes slumberous talents.

Fletcher Knebel

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Mark Twain

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Napoleon Hill

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Anthony Bourdain

I'm not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

Keith Stewart

We're very concerned because the (electricity) system is still very much in the hands of the people who built our last nuclear plants and got us into the mess we're in today,

Fisher DeBerry

We feel like we have some depth in our offensive line and obviously we have two good quarterbacks with game experience. That second unit built some pride. There are a lot of those second-unit guys that could be just as effective as the first-unit guys. We'll continue to use two units like that. What periods of the game we'll use them or when we'll use them, we're not going to say.

Steven Tuen

The expectations are built up so high that anything less than perfection will cause the stocks to fall.

Scott Ford

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Roustam Tariko

Lots of businesses built in the early 1990s were not very transparent, not only by Russians, but also by foreigners.

Rabindranath Tagore

Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man's civilization is built upon his surplus... In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habit

Samuel Gruber

Built in 1763, it is the oldest surviving synagogue in North America,

Samuel Gruber

Built from 1948 to 1953, this is one of the first great modern American synagogues,

Richard Flanagan

My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers in 1943. Between 100,000 and 200,000 died.

Franz Kafka

When K. looked at the castle, often it seemed to him as if he were observing someone who sat quietly there in front of him gazing, not lost in thought and so oblivious of everything, but free and untroubled, as if he were alone with nobody to observe him, and yet must notice that he was observed, and all the same remained with his calm not even slightly disturbed; and really - one did not know whether it was cause or effect - the gaze of the observer could not remain concentrated there, but slid away.

Bertrand Russell

Worry is a form of fear.

Dalai Lama

If there is a solution to a problem, there is no need to worry. And if there is no solution, there is no need to worry.

Sophocles

To him who is afraid, everything rustles.

Max Lucado

Has worrying about tomorrow every changed it?

Mason Cooley

Worry is not thought; complaining is not action.

Erich Fromm

There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.

Maya Angelou

I said, 'Don't worry about it -- I know our culture.'

Carrie Fisher

What worries me is, what if this guy is really the one for me and I just haven't had enough therapy yet for me to be comfortable with having found him.

Horace

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.