Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

Arthur Koestler

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Arthur Miller

The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.

Brian Tracy

Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.

Alan Cumming

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.

Edmund Burke

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

Aristotle

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

Adlai Stevenson

Eggheads, unite! You have nothing to lose but your yolks.

Albert Schweitzer

There is so much coldness because we do not dare to be as cordial as we are.

Clarence Darrow

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

Corita Kent

In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

Corita Kent

To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.

Thomas More

What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

Thomas E. Mann

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

Pablo Neruda

What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?

James Jeans

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.

Abraham Lincoln

We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

Albert Schweitzer

Every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.

Herbert Hoover

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

Ernest Hemingway

Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

Christian Morgenstern

If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

Jean Anouilh

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.

Herbie Hancock

The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

Henry David Thoreau

find your eternity in each moment

Hugh Downs

Life begins when you do.

Horace

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

Horace

Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.

Hank Aaron

In playing ball, and in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: being prepared to seize the moment and having the courage to take your best swing.

Immanuel Kant

So act that anything you do may become universal law.

Mark Twain

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

Publilius Syrus

Never find your delight in another's misfortune.