Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierce Brosnan

I will forever be a Bond. It's a small group of men who've made this role. Someone said, More men have walked on the moon than have played James Bond.'

Jennifer Rodriguez

He'll say one sentence and I'll say one sentence. It takes me forever to pop out that one sentence. It's horrible. I could kill him now.

Rob Zombie

All the classic bands that have been around forever, they came up gradually.

Richelle Mead

Since...since when?" I finally managed to ask. "Since...forever." His tone implied the answer was obvious.

Richelle Mead

You're burned into my mind forever. There is nothing, nothing in this world that will ever change that.

Richelle Mead

We can retreat and retreat and let ourselves get backed into corners forever,” she’d said once. “Or we can go out and meet the enemy at the time and place we choose. Not them.” Okay, Tasha, I thought. Let’s see if your advice gets me killed.

William Matthews

With the "civilized" person contentment is a myth. From the cradle to the grave they are forever longing and striving after something better, an indefinable something, some new object yet unattained.

William McDonough

Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point.

Woody Allen

I don't want to live forever through my work. I want to live forever by not dying.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Harmony is the inner cadence of contentment we feel when the melody of life is in tune.

Jose Saramago

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

Plutarch

Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we will take the good we find, asking no questions, we shall have heaping measures. The great gifts are not got by analysis. Everything good is on the highway. The middle region of our being is the temperate zone.

Larry McMurtry

Part of the trick of being happy is a refusal to allow oneself to become too nostalgic for the heady triumphs of one's youth.

Josh Billings

Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.

John Bunyan

I am content with what I have, little be it, or much.

James Macdonald

I don't have everything I want but I have everything I need. That's contentment.

Rufus Wainwright

I'll always be a boulevardier. I have an extreme reverence and romantic longing for all that is decrepit and fatalistic.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nothing troubles you for which you do not yearn.

David Mitchell

The music provokes a sharp longing the music soothes.

Anna Freud

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't have a vast longing for the stage.

Stanley Kunitz

A longing for the dance stirs in the buried life.

John Steinbeck

What hidden, hoarded longings there are in all of us.

Maureen Corrigan

It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent.

Lorrie Moore

She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there?