Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

Boris Pasternak

Man is born to live, not to prepare for life.

Blaise Pascal

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

Ray Lewis

Daddy wasn't there for me, so I had to grind every day.

Ray Lewis

Greatness is a lot of small things done well, stacked up on each other.

Rumi

God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him." "The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.

Stephen Covey

Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things.

Sigourney Weaver

When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

Sigmund Freud

I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.

Arthur Conan Doyle

But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things.

Cesar Millan

Love is leading. People think it has to be two different roles but it is the same.

Alain Badiou

Love and politics are the two great figures of social engagement. Politics is enthusiasm with a collective; with love, two people. So love is the minimal form of communism.

Jane Austen

Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved.

Jason Blum

People love being scared, even for long periods of time.

Miley Cyrus

There's so much negativity in the world and what you only need to hear is all the love. People try to say to me, 'I just heard someone say this or that about you,' and I just ignore it because it's irrelevant. Love is what makes the world go around, and that's all we need to focus on.

bell hooks

I think this is often misunderstood in the West, where people feel that there can be no justice unless everything is the same. This is part of why I feel we have to relearn how we think about love, because we think about love so much in terms of the self.

bell hooks

Love is an action, never simply a feeling.

Diane Ackerman

When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor. What we call "white" is a rainbow of colored rays packed into a small space. The prism sets them free. Love is the white light of emotion.

Brad Pitt

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

Jodi Picoult

When it's all over, you're remembered for what you did, not what you said you were going to do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders, so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

Leo Tolstoy

You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking.

Peter Gallagher

If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear and panic and feeling of helplessness.

Peter Gabriel

Words, they climb all over you/'Til they uncover you From where you hide.

Phyllis Diller

[When to have a facelift:] If you're tripping over your neck.

John Maeda

If you have no fear, no one has power over you.

Charlie Munger

Once you get into debt, it’s hell to get out. Don’t let credit card debt carry over. You can’t get ahead paying eighteen percent.