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.

Arthur Miller

I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.

Arundhati Roy

It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do.

Kevin Bardsley

We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned.

Charles Fillmore

The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life.

Charles Fillmore

Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.

Charles Bukowski

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.

Charles Bukowski

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be.

E. B. White

"What's miraculous about a spider's web?" said Mrs. Arable. "I don't see why you say a web is a miracle--it's just a web." "Ever try to spin one?" asked Mr. Dorian.

Anne Bronte

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.

Isaac Asimov

There seems to be a feeling that anything that is natural is good. Strychnine is natural.

Immanuel Kant

Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

Immanuel Kant

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

Immanuel Kant

It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.

Immanuel Kant

Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.

Immanuel Kant

Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

Immanuel Kant

Human reason is by nature architectonic.

Dylan Lauren

I've been entrepreneurial since middle school. I was always arranging bake sales, dances and school trips to raise money for the Dalton School.

Dylan O'Brien

Yeah, I've only been acting since I was 18 out of high school.

Dylan O'Brien

I didn't have that many friends my first few years of high school. It was very cliquey and I'm super shy, so it was hard to make friends.

Dylan O'Brien

I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in school, which was film studies. That was what I intended on doing, but I didn't go away to a university because I wanted to stay in L.A. and audition while I took classes, so I elected to go to a community college and just take G.E. courses. It was terrible.

Douglas Bader

Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.

Douglas Booth

I got cast in a school play and I fell in love with that. I felt comfortable on stage and found out it was a brilliant way of expressing myself and I was happy and I could do it.

Douglas Booth

When you're forced to watch something in school, you never really enjoy it, you sort of rebel against it in a certain way.

Douglas Booth

I knew I wanted to do something creative. I am dyslexic, so I really struggled in school. I knew I was never going to sit behind a desk or do something involving numbers.

Doug Stanhope

He's my usual type of fan... a school shooter who didn't have bullets and now he's all awkward and alone.