Famous Quotes & Sayings

Veronica Roth

Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other

Johnny Cash

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.

Ornette Coleman

I'm having this conversation with you now. I'm talking, but I'm thinking, feeling, smelling, and moving. Yet I'm concentrating on what you're saying. So that means there's more things going on in the body than just the present thing that the person's got you doing.

Omar Khayyam

The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.

Emile M. Cioran

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

Nelson Mandela

Forget the past.

Nhat Hanh

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Richard Paul Evans

Regret is the most tiresome of companions.

Travie McCoy

I'd like to be remembered as someone that lived life by his own rules with no regrets.

William Jennings Bryan

That is the one thing in my public career that I regret--my work to secure the enactment of the Federal Reserve Law.

Samuel Johnson

The business of life is to go forward; he who sees evil in prospect meets it in his way, and he who catches it by retrospection turns back to find it. That which is feared may sometimes be avoided, but that which is regretted to-day may be regretted again to-morrow.

Sarah Orne Jewett

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.

Samuel Beckett

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

Ryan Sheckler

I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worried about it. I can't change it. I can't fix it. It is what it is. I'm just living.

Wanda Sykes

People say, 'Well don't you regret not having kids?' And I go, 'No, not really.' And then if they keep asking, I always say this, 'Well, you know, maybe I'll adopt.' But I don't mean that. It's just something I say to make me sound like a nicer person.

Virgil Thomson

I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.

Robert Conquest

Everyone is a reactionary about subjects he understands.

Thomas Jefferson

If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

Richard Steele

The conquest of passion gives ten times more happiness than we can reap from the gratification of it

Gabriel Marcel

... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.

Muhammad

The most excellent jihad (struggle) is that for the conquest of self

James Thompson

Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.

Don Martin

That's not going to be an easy conquest for him. He's got a lot of unhappy campers in the trenches.

Algernon Sidney

No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.

Plautus

He is hailed a conqueror of conquerors. [Lat., Victor victorum cluet.]