Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca West

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

Woody Allen

There have been times when I've thought about it - but with my luck it would probably turn out to be only a temporary solution.

Will Smith

The game cannot be won, only played.

William Bernbach

In advertising, not to be different is virtually suicidal.

Rodney Dangerfield

I was an ugly kid; when I was born, after the doctor cut the cord, he hung himself.

Saint Augustine

For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.

Wendell Berry

We must see that it is foolish, sinful and suicidal to destroy the health of nature for the sake of an economy that is really not an economy at all but merely a financial system, one that is unnatural, undemocratic, sacrilegious, and ephemeral.

Neal Stephenson

But then, Cap'n Crunch in a flake form would be suicidal madness; it would last about as long, when immersed in milk, as snowflakes sifting down into a deep fryer. No, the cereal engineers at General Mills had to find a shape that would minimize surface area, and, as some sort of compromise between the sphere that is dictated by Euclidean geometry and whatever sunken treasure related shapes that the cereal aestheticians were probably clamoring for, they came up with this hard -to-pin-down striated pillow formation.

Mahatma Gandhi

The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.

Sid Fleischman

Adult novels are as ephemeral as newspapers. Children's books stay in print for decades.

Marcus Aurelius

All is Ephemeral, fame and the famous as well.

Emilio Estevez

Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure.

Frida Kahlo

What would I do without the absurd and the ephemeral?

John Malkovich

Theater is so ephemeral, and I love that.

Dee Hock

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.

Charles Baudelaire

Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

Thornton Wilder

I am not interested in the ephemeral - such subjects as the adulteries of dentists. I am interested in those things that repeat and repeat and repeat in the lives of the millions.

Lord Shaftesbury

I would be virtuous for my own sake, though nobody were to know it; as I would be clean for my own sake, though nobody were to see me.

William Shatner

Oh, for God's sake... get a life, will you?

Allison Forsyth

I'm not just going there for the sake of being there.

Kevin Whately

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.

Jonathan Raban

Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be anywhere but where you were, with motion itself as the only object.

Henry Ford

We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.

Mahatma Gandhi

You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.

Epicurus

I spit upon luxurious pleasures, not for their own sake, but because of the inconveniences that follow them.

Niklaus Wirth

I have never designed a language for its own sake.