Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julius Rosenberg

This death sentence is not surprising. It had to be.

Charles de Secondat

A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

Carson McCullers

Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

Susan Jovanovic

The only way I could describe it -- the full effect -- is like having a death in the family. The entire family was ripped apart.

Anton Chekhov

When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is.

Demi Lovato

I pray every night before I go to sleep and every morning when I wake up.

Daniel Handler

It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.

Coco Chanel

I have only one curiosity left: death.

Clark Gable

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.

Billie Joe Armstrong

When all else fails...be a rockstar

Bonnie Hunt

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

Randy Pausch

Better to fail spectacularly than do something mediocre.

Henry Miller

Every day that we fail to live out the maximum of our potentialities we kill the Shakespeare, Dante, Homer, Christ which is in us.

Hudson Taylor

In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.

Horace Mann

If temperance prevails, then education can prevail; if temperance fails, then education must fail.

Thomas A. Edison

I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work.

Hans Zimmer

You're going to fail a few times, because that is the only time you actually learn something.

Charlie Munger

A business model that relies on trickery is doomed to fail.

Elbert Hubbard

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

Orson Scott Card

You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet.

Clare Bowen

When people are grieving, it's kind of like a storm, and you need something to grab onto, but often you have to brave it on your own.

Susanna Kearsley

A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right under.

Christina Rossetti

Yet if you should forget me for a while And afterwards remember, do not grieve: For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.

George Bernard Shaw

Heartbreak is life educating us.

Frederick William Robertson

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

Isadora Duncan

Eleonora Duse said, "Tell me about Deirdre and Patrick," and made me repeat to her all their little sayings and ways, and show her their photos, which she kissed and cried over. She never said 'Cease to grieve', but she grieved with me, and, for the first time since their death, I felt I was not alone.

Bede Jarrett

Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.

Jan Karon

And it can be a way of healing.

Jane Austen

Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing - fortifying and bracing - seemingly just as was wanted - sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Advent creates people, new people.

Bill Hybels

Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.

Deepak Chopra

If you restore balance in your own self, you will be contributing immensely to the healing of the world.

Deepak Chopra

When we connect to the infinite source of wisdom within, creative new ideas, opportunities, and healing spontaneously unfold.

Andrew Weil

There's no limit to what working with the breath can accomplishmy own first-hand experiences with this natural healing method have convinced me that breathing well may be the master key to good health. I recommend breath work to all my patients.

David Simon

Any music can be healing if it inspires, relaxes, encourages or creates enthusiasm for life in you.

Thomas Wolfe

The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers of resilience, self-protection, and self-healing. Unless an event completely shatters the order of one's life, the mind, if it has youth and health and time enough, accepts the inevitable and gets itself ready for the next happening like a grimly dutiful American tourist who, on arriving at a new town, looks around him, takes his bearings, and says, "Well, where do I go from here?

Paula Abdul

I've never been to MAGIC before. This is a little overwhelming.

Josh Feinman

You're not going to turn this thing around with platitudes. There are no magic bullets.

Ben Okri

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Bertrand Russell

If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.

Jamie Cullum

When I look back on my ordinary, ordinary life, I see so much magic, though I missed it at the time.

Jane Yolen

Touch magic. Pass it on.

Brian May

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.

Charles Bukowski

I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking.

Marcia Wieder

Every day use your magic to be of service to others.

Shannon Staub

Englewood wants sidewalks. So do a lot of other people. I am not sure what happened.

Ralph Murphy

We want to make sure they (companies) have a place to come.

Bobby Cox

I don't think it's bad, but he sure flinched when he did it.

Mark Vitner

I don't think it's a sure thing they'll tighten in December, even if it is now more likely.

James Mansfield

Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

Jack Moore

If it doesn't help, I damned sure don't know what will.

Dillon Dougherty

If we win this week, it will for sure be established. We are trying to get this team thinking that we don't just want to win, we want to win by a lot.

Karron Clarke

I was sure we'd get it tied and get things rolling. But every time we did, they made a big shot.

Mark Stinson

I was sure she would make (at least) one.

Jerry Bridges

Obeying the revealed will of God and trusting Him for the results.

James Macdonald

When you say, I don't know exactly what God is doing, but I know he's in control that's evidence you're trusting Him.