Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Wood

He was the kind of guy, when things were down, he brightened them up. He was happy-go-lucky ... and that light shone around him all the time.

William Jennings Bryan

The money power denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

Virginia Woolf

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

Woody Allen

When you are dead, it is hard to find the light switch.

Robert Delaunay

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

Rob Bell

You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.

Wallace Stevens

The poet's function is to make his imagination . . . become the light in the mind of others. His role, in short, is to help people to live their lives.

William Howard Taft

I would like to have an ample fund to spread the light of Republicanism, but I am willing to undergo the disadvantage to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics for unworthy purposes.

Willa Cather

I wanted to walk straight on through the red grass and over the edge of the world, which could not be very far away. The light and air abot me told me that the world ended here: only the ground and sun and sky were left, and if one went a little farther there would only be sun and sky, and one would float off into them, like the tawny hawks which sailed over our heads making slow shadows on the grass.

Rick Warren

Never confuse activity with productivity.

John Brown

I am worth inconceivably more to hang than for any other purpose.

Napoleon Hill

If you have no major purpose, you are drifting toward certain failure.

Napoleon Hill

Constancy of purpose is the first principle of success.

Ogden Nash

A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you.

Og Mandino

I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

Os Guinness

Mastering our emotions has nothing to do with asceticism or repression, for the purpose is not to break the emotions or deny them but to "break in" the emotions, making them teachable because they are tamed.

Octavia Butler

Consider We are born Not with purpose, But with potential.

Octavio Paz

The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.