Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Rickman

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

Edith Wharton

But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.

David Hume

Anything that is conceivable is possible.

Baroness Orczy

In the chain of my life, there were so many links, all of which tended towards bringing me to the fulfillment of my destiny.

Audre Lorde

It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society is to encourage excellence. But giving in to the fear of feeling and working to capacity is a luxury only the unintentional can afford, and the unintentional are those who do not wish to guide their own destinies.

Niki de St. Phalle

It's my destiny to make a place where people can come and be happy: a garden of joy.

Kurt Vonnegut

... there is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life ...

Benjamin Watson

You CAN be what you want to be. Whatever that is.

Cecily von Ziegesar

Destiny is for losers. It's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen.

Charles Dickens

We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances.

Alain Robert

It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.

Eartha Kitt

I'm still with that feeling that I am afraid of doing the wrong thing, because somebody is going to punish me.

David Hume

.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species.

David Burnett

The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.

David Brooks

When your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't turn inward, go outward.

Benicio Del Toro

It really is a pleasure to work with someone who you admire. Whatever you do in front of the camera, and I don't know what it is, but actors have this thing that you recognize someone that makes you better. When you do that, it's a great feeling.

Robert Kiyosaki

When success and incompetence meet, disaster is not far away.

Usain Bolt

I stay as far away from politics as possible, or any controversy.

Mattie Stepanek

Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now.

Pablo Neruda

Where were you then? Who else was there? Saying what? Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and feel you are far away?

Eve Ensler

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.

Eoin Colfer

If you were me, then I'd be you, and if I were you, then I'd hide somewhere far away.

Jorge Luis Borges

i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive

Edith Hamilton

He was there beside her, yet she was far away from him, aone with her outraged love and her ruined life.

Peter Stone

The rehearsal period is so far away from the time when the scene will actually be shot that very little is remembered.