Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Davies

I dont drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

Brian Cox

What scientists are attached to is journeys into the unknown and discovering things that are completely unexpected and baffling and surprising.

Bruce Dickinson

Life on the road can get a little one-dimensional. I didn't want to reach 40 and have to say all I'd done was look out the window of a tour bus and get drunk.

Edmund Burke

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Damon Galgut

A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it's made. You go from one place to another place, and on to somewhere else again, and already behind you there is no trace that you were ever there.

Adelbert von Chamisso

After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.

Debbie Ford

We must risk the journey to a higher ground where there is freedom from the gravitational pull of our stories, the pull that comes from years of trying to prove that the stories we tell ourselves, the ones we've made up, are the truth.

Donna Karan

My favorite journey is anywhere I haven't been

Dr. Seuss

Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter.

Simon Sinek

Complaining begets more complaints. Anger begets more anger. And optimism begets more optimism.

Rem Koolhaas

Find optimism in the inevitable

Tony Kushner

One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

William Arthur Ward

Optimism is a seed sown in the soil of faith; pessimism is a seed hoarded in the vault of doubt.

Jim Leach

There's probably a little greater case for pessimism than optimism. But I do not rule out optimism.

Cesar Pelli

Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with confidence.

Dan Miller

Sorrow, anger and resentment look back, worry looks around, while faith, hope, and optimism look to the future.

Cornel West

Optimism is evidence-based.

Colum McCann

I’m not interested in blind optimism, but I’m very interested in optimism that is hard-won, that takes on darkness and then says, ‘This is not enough.’ But it takes time, more time than we can sometimes imagine, to get there. And sometimes we don’t.

Bob Dole

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

Sydney J. Harris

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning.

Thomas Jefferson

We should talk over the lessons of the day, or lose them in Music, Chess, or the merriments of our family companions.

Taylor Mali

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

Oscar Wilde

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

Faith Hill

There are many lessons to learn. Naming just one is next to impossible. However, learning to love and be loved is a good starting point. It will encompass much.

Garth Nix

Let this be my final lesson. Everyone and everything has a time to die.

Rob Bell

The lesson that has been hardest for me to learn: there is nothing to prove.

Yolanda King

The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.