Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Surely what a man does when he is taken off guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is. If there are rats in a cellar, you are most likely to see them if you go in very suddenly. But the suddenness does not create the rats; it only prevents them from hiding. In the same way the suddenness of the provocation does not make me ill tempered; it only shows me what an ill-tempered man I am.

Maurice Maeterlinck

We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.

Barry Lopez

You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

Barry Lopez

There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions.

Barry Lopez

If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.

David Korten

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

Dave Barry

Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages

Charles Stanley

The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.

Chester A. Arthur

Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

Cathy Guisewite

Everyday is a new beginning and a chance to blow it.

Bill Gates

Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.

Billie Jean King

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.

Billie Jean King

Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.

Brett Favre

Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.

Brad Paisley

Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem like a waste of time. I remember that feeling well. But don't worry about wasting time, because it'll be so worth it. It's my experience that in the end, life lessons and guitar lessons begin to blur in all sorts of interesting ways.

Denis Waitley

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Elizabeth Scott

Three life lessons: 1.No one will see you. 2.No one will say anything. 3.No one will save you.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Sometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original source, or fountainhead. But regardless of the reason for or the source of the anger or the relative ease or complexity in perceiving either the anger or its source - everybody, but everybody, gets angry.

Cecilia Munoz

The outpouring of anger in the community is combined with the hope that the Senate will do better.

Common

You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those; jealousy, anger - all your emotions are not going to be considered the strong emotions; all of them are not going to be love, happiness, joy.

Chris Crutcher

If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.

Barack Obama

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

Nina Easton

Public anger over bank bailouts was as much about fairness as the billions of dollars spent.

Gore Vidal

I think I have a normal threshold of anger, but it's true that I am, by nature, belligerent.

Berkeley Breathed

That's the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.

Bill Vaughan

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.