Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Baxter

If life be long I will be glad, that I may long obey; if short, yet why should I be sad to welcome to endless day?

William J. Clinton

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

William James

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." "This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it." "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Richard M. Nixon

If we succeed, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but, rather because of what we believe.

William Henry Harrison

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

William Howard Taft

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

William Howard Taft

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

Warren Buffett

Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

Virginia Woolf

I am rooted, but I flow.

Will Rogers

We are sure living in a peculiar time. You get morefor not working than you will for working, and morefor not raising a hog than for raising it.

Marsha Mason

The idea of being a single woman in Hollywood is a very peculiar thing.

Luc de Clapiers

Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.

Louise Brown

I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal.

Greg Moore

This is a very peculiar year for flu.

Troy Fisher

It's unique because of that. It's a peculiar sound.

John Bankhead

It's very peculiar that he isn't ... We're investigating to find out why.

Joseph Hume

I am willing to admit that if the agriculturists are oppressed by peculiar burdens, they ought to be relieved from them, or be allowed a fair and just protection equivalent to all such peculiar burdens.

Lewis H. Lapham

The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.

Richelle Mead

You forgot my first lesson: don't hesitate.

Russell Baker

Americans treat history like a cookbook. Whenever they are uncertain what to do next, they turn to history and look up the proper recipe, invariably designated "the lesson of history.

Rob Bell

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

Walt Whitman

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

Wiz Khalifa

Live longer or die hard is not just a movie title, there is a great lesson hidden in this title.

Zach Braff

Didn't we learn our lesson from Planet of the Apes?

William T. Vollmann

Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe the residue will show what violence is.

Rufus Wainwright

Well, my great lesson with that was I went to the same production twice - once completely high and once completely sober - and both times were equally wonderful.

Yolanda King

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