Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alvin Gentry

Or Rip comes off and finds Chauncey Billups right here.

Lao Tzu

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

Woody Allen

The only way to be happy is to love to suffer.

Brian Weiss

Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else.

Charles Bukowski

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

Sydney Smith

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Sydney Smith

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

David McKenzie

We've still got a long way to go ... but I'm happy with my position at this point.

Rig Veda

The real happiness of life is in doing 'karma'.

Aristotle

No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.

Bentzi Lieberman

with happiness and determination, but without confrontation with the security forces.

Dennis Prager

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.

Amy Weber

I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles.

Alfred Nobel

Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

Alfred Jarry

It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom

Alexander Pope

You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.

Alexa Chung

Looking effortless takes a lot of effort. When I get new Converse I dedicate some time at home to shoving mud on them so they don't look squeaky clean.

E. L. Konigsburg

Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock Full O'Nuts still cost thirty-five cents.

E. O. Wilson

Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which we live. The earth is our home. Unless we preserve the rest of life, as a sacred duty, we will be endangering ourselves by destroying the home in which we evolved, and on which we completely depend.

Donna Karan

I feel at home most places I go, but my very top of the list are Bali, Italy, and London. Those are like second homes to me.

Bobby Scott

In fact, the Harvard study data indicates that 70 percent of African American children attend schools that are predominately African American, about the same level as in 1968 when Dr. King died.

Mavis Staples

I have to pinch myself sometimes. It's unbelievable, but it's not. Because I know that this would not be happening if it hadn't been for Dr. Martin Luther King.

Ken Salazar

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.

Leo Tolstoy

Kings are the slaves of history.

Charles Spurgeon

You and your sins must separate or you and your God will never come together. No one sin may keep you; they must all be given up, they must be brought out like Canaanite kings from the cave and be hanged up in the sun.

Cheyenne Jackson

I was a 12 year old kid in Northern Idaho listening to Billie Holiday and Lena Horne and Sarah Vaughan and Nat King Cole. This whole genre of music is a part of who I am.

David Berkowitz

In this hole lives the wicked king.

Cornel West

We look at the legacy of Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells and Ella Baker, Malcolm X and Martin King. We have, and part of the struggle now in the age of [Barack] Obama is how do we keep alive the legacy of Martin King?

Cornel West

The black agenda, from Frederick Douglas to Ida B. Wells to Martin King, has always been the most broad, deep, inclusive, embracing agenda of the nation.

Tacitus

A bad peace is even worse than war.

Maya Angelou

Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace.

Madonna Ciccone

Let love shine and we will find a way to come together.

Cindy Sheehan

Senator Clinton, taking the peace road would not prove you are weak,

Mona Sutphen

If I'm going to be staying up until 3 A.M., it should be for world peace and not shampoo sales.

Hannah Arendt

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Voltaire

To hold a pen is to be at war.

Robert Fulghum

Peace is not something you wish for; It's something you make, Something you do, Something you are, And something you give away.

Margaret Walker

Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.