Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Ayn Rand

Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!

Benjamin Disraeli

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

C. S. Lewis

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

C. S. Lewis

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

Carol Bartz

If you think you can't, you're right.

Booth Tarkington

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

Booker T. Washington

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

Booker T. Washington

Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you've over come

Barbara Sher

Isolation is a dream killer.

Arthur Miller

I am bewildered by the death of love. And my responsibility for it.

Arthur Miller

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

Ayn Rand

She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.

Michel de Montaigne

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Blake Edwards

Look, there's nothing wrong with people being happy, but there's more to life than turning on and screwing to Ravel's Bolero.

Karl Lagerfeld

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

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.

Diana Ross

Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?

Baruch Spinoza

I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature

Arthur Schopenhauer

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

In every page of David Hume, there is more to be learned than from Hegel's, Herbart's and Schleiermacher's complete philosophical works.

Steve Nash

You have good games, you have bad games. You have good years, you have bad years. I have always been kind of philosophical about that.

Philip Roth

Nothing lasts and yet nothing passes either, and nothing passes just because nothing lasts.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.

Mason Cooley

Modern thought does not offer consolations, but upsets.

Oscar Wilde

All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.