Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Tracy

Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.

Viktor E. Frankl

Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Viktor E. Frankl

Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedom -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Michael Barone

Obama's attitude toward the rule of law is apparent in the words he used to describe what he is looking for in a nominee to replace Justice David Souter. He wants 'someone who understands justice is not just about some abstract legal theory,' he said, but someone who has 'empathy.' In other words, judges should decide cases so that the right people win, not according to the rule of law.

Seamus Heaney

At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure.

Sean Connery

My view is that to get anywhere in life you have to be anti-social, otherwise you'll end up being devoured. I've never been particularly social, anyway, but if I've ever been rude, fifty per cent of it has usually been provoked by other people's attitudes. Though I do admit, like most Celts, I'm moody. It's fine until people try to cheer you up with gems like, 'snap out of it' or 'Come on, now'.

Milt Palacio

I think so. Me, personally, I did, because you never want to be questioned by your owner. You never want your attitude questioned, your heart questioned, so I did. I took it a little personally, and I just wanted to play tough all night and get to the basket.

Mike James

I guess we have the attitude that we're in unfamiliar territory and we have no one but ourselves, so we stick together.

John C. Maxwell

Our attitude determines our approach to life.

Bobby Hamilton

I can't think about what happened in 2001 and what kind of season it was. It was a good season. But like I say, I hope I can have a season like that, turn it back around and go to the big dance (this year).

Luc de Clapiers

Whoever has seen the masked at a ball dance amicably together, and take hold of hands without knowing each other, leaving the next moment to meet no more, can form an idea of the world.

Martha Graham

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

We're trying to stretch our muscles creatively. It gives us so much more freedom.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

It doesn't matter how high you lift your leg. The technique is about transparency, simplicity, making an earnest attempt.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

The more injuries you get, the smarter you get.

Margot Fonteyn

Dancing was something to be taken very seriously when engaged in and otherwise put out of mind.

Margot Fonteyn

Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time

James A. Baldwin

Heavenly witnesses are a tricky lot, to be used by whoever is closest to Heaven at the time. And legend and theology, which are designed to sanctify our fears, crimes, and aspirations, also reveal them for what they are.

George Washington

Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception.

Henry Miller

If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.

Henri Frederic Amiel

From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.

Cassandra Clare

Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore.

George Eliot

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

George Eliot

How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?

George Eliot

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

Sydney Smith

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Author unknown

The Truth that is to be Realized may be summarized simply as the Realization that no matter what is arising, no matter how many others are present, there is only One Being. This is precisely different from the childish but common religious notion that even when you are alone there is always Someone Else present, Who will look out for you if you do the right thing. True freedom is not a matter of striking a deal with an All-Powerful Parental Deity; no such God exists. True freedom is in the Realization that there is only God and You are That One.

Daniel Barenboim

When you love somebody and they die young and you are young, too, it is very hard.

Cynthia Heimel

Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people.

Ann Landers

All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest - never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.

Abraham Lincoln

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

Abraham Lincoln

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Henry Ian Cusick

I love the sci-fi world and the way it makes me start to question things.

Alberto Moravia

And we all know love is a glass which makes even a monster appear fascinating.

Jessica Savitch

The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself.

Maria Callas

Only when I was singing did I feel loved.