Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

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

Charles Bukowski

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Aristotle

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Ben Lindsey

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Anna Jameson

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

Alain Rene Le Sage

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Thomas Fuller

Govern thy life and thy thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one, and read the other.

Thomas Fuller

Good is not good, where better is expected

Thomas Fuller

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

Andrea Gibson

Say this is what the pain made of you: an open, open, open road, an avalanche of feel it all.

Andrea Gibson

Don't google your name. Ever. Don't “search” for yourself on anything that glows in the dark. Don't let your beauty be something anyone can turn off. Don't edit your ugly out of your bio. Let your light come from the fire. Let your pain be the spark, but not the timber. Remember, you didn't come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.

Andrea Gibson

Do you think anger is a sincere emotion or the timid motion of a fragile heart trying to beat away its pain?

Aesop

Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain

Aeschylus

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

Aeschylus

Take courage; pain's extremity soon ends.

Aeschylus

In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.

Aeschylus

Wisdom comes through suffering. Trouble, with its memories of pain, Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep, So men against their will Learn to practice moderation. Favours come to us from gods.

Aeschylus

For it would be better to die once and for all than to suffer pain for all one's life.

Bridget Moynahan

There's not a second I regret having a child on my own.

Corey Taylor

You have to live in these moments, not for them. If you look too hard, they blow right by you. If you do not live enough, you will regret every breath.

Confucius

The superior man accords with the course of the Mean. Though he may be all unknown, unregarded by the world, he feels no regret - It is only the sage who is able for this.

Confucius

Listen widely to remove your doubts and be careful when speaking about the rest and your mistakes will be few. See much and get rid of what is dangerous and be careful in acting on the rest and your causes for regret will be few. Speaking without fault, acting without causing regret: 'upgrading' consists in this.

Andrew Lincoln

I don't really have any regrets because if I choose not to do something there is usually a very good reason. Once I've made the decision I don't view it as a missed opportunity, just a different path.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.

Amelia Barr

a little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.

Andrew Fastow

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't want to be anything else other than what I am. I can say that with passion. No regrets...