Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Park

I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. And I hate flying. So I have this really laid-back, good lifestyle, and it's hard to nudge me out of it.

Art Linkletter

Do a little more than you're paid to. Give a little more than you have to. Try a little harder than you want to. Aim a little higher than you think possible, and give a lot of thanks to God for health, family, and friends.

Alain de Botton

It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint against the modern status-ideal. Why should failure to make money be taken as a sign of an unconditionally flawed human being rather than of a fiasco in one particular area if the far larger, more multifaceted, project of leading a good life? Why should both wealth and poverty be read as the predominant guides to an individual's morals ?

Bruce Jenner

Remember, success is not measured by heights attained but by obstacles overcome. We're going to pass through many obstacles in our lives: good days, bad days. But the successful person will overcome those obstacles and constantly move forward.

Dorothy Allison

The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.

Constantin Brancusi

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

Damian Lewis

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.

Douglas Horton

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Donald Trump

My parents lived very long lives. And good lives, too. They're great people, but good lives.

Andy Rooney

One of the sweetest things in life: a letter from a friend.

Robert Frost

If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on.

Thomas Huxley

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

Tony Hsieh

To never forget that the most important thing in life is the quality of life we lead.

Steve Nash

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.

Veronica Roth

Living without virtues is to live divorced from society, seperated from the most important thing in life, community.

Tony Gonzalez

I've come to realize that the thing in life that's important, the reason we're all here, is to love and do well for each other.

Robbie Keane

Sometimes, you need different things in life, you need different challenges that will give you that little boost.

Marisha Pessl

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

Andrew Natsios

Development does not take place in Washington, DC. Development takes place in the rest of the world.

Alfred North Whitehead

Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.

Alfred North Whitehead

Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory, is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology.

Alexander Herzen

What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!

Dylan Thomas

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

Anita Ekberg

I'm very much bigger than I was, so what? It's not really fatness, it's development.

Albert Bandura

Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend

Valentina Tereshkova

I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century

Stephen Hawking

Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.