Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brandon Lee

My mother is very wise and intelligent. If I have children and can do half as good a job as she did in keeping me in line, I'll be very happy.

Bai Ling

I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.

Augustine Birrell

A poet's soul must contain the perfect shape of all things good, wise and just. His body must be spotless and without blemish, his life pure, his thoughts high, his studies intense.

Augustine Birrell

The true historian, therefore, seeking to compose a true picture of the thing acted, must collect facts and combine facts. Methods will differ, styles will differ. Nobody ever does anything like anybody else; but the end in view is generally the same, and the historian's end is truthful narration. Maxims he will have, if he is wise, never a one; and as for a moral, if he tell his story well, it will need none; if he tell it ill, it will deserve none.

Aubrey McClendon

With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will come from gas-fired electric generation. However, I do not believe it is wise for America to substitute dependence on foreign oil for dependence on Chinese batteries.

Juvenal

The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.

C. S. Lewis

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

Charles R. Swindoll

I am convinced that wise planning is good. But plans, like material possessions, must always be held loosely. Yes - always! Plan wisely, but be ready for God to rearrange things and take you along paths that may feel dangerous to you. Don't sweat it; He knows what He's doing. And He isn't obligated to inform you ... or request permission to upset your neat little agenda!

Charles Churchill

Satire, whilst envy and ill-humor sway The mind of man, must always make her way; Nor to a bosom, with discretion fraught, Is all her malice worth a single thought. The wise have not the will, nor fools the power, To stop her headstrong course; within the hour Left to herself, she dies; opposing strife Gives her fresh vigor, and prolongs her life.

Arthur Brisbane

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Baltasar Gracian

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

Edward Abbey

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

Elfriede Jelinek

After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.

Allen Ginsberg

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

Albert Camus

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

Albert Camus

Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.

Albert Camus

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Anthony Burgess

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

Dick Van Dyke

I'm not a loner. I have to have a life partner.

Jill Sobule

As a bit of loner, prone to melancholy, with a questionable sexuality, I found great solace in the words of-Dylan, Joni, John Prine and Leonard Cohen. The darker the better.