Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mitch Albom

Dor shook his head. “The phrase. What does it mean?” Sarah wondered if he was kidding. “Time flies? You know, like, time goes really fast and suddenly you’re saying goodbye and it’s like no time passed at all?” His eyes drifted. He liked it. “Time flies.” “With you,” she added.

Mitch Albom

If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of ‘I could have, I should have’. We can sleep in a storm. And when its time, our goodbyes will be complete.

Miguel de Cervantes

When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there.

Neil Gaiman

And if there's a moral there, I don't know what it is, save maybe that we should take our goodbyes whenever we can.

Neil Gaiman

Goodbyes are overrated.

Neil Gaiman

When writing a novel, that's pretty much entirely what life turns into: 'House burned down. Car stolen. Cat exploded. Did 1500 easy words, so all in all it was a pretty good day.

John Waters

I've had a pretty amazing life, a good life, and God knows I'm thankful, but I do believe that after 30, stop whining! Everybody's dealt a hand, and it's not fair what you get. But you've got to deal with it.

John Waters

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

Theodore Roosevelt

The lives of truest heroism are those in which there are no great deeds to look back upon. It is the little things well done that go to make up a truly successful and good life.

Theodor Herzl

Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives.

Thales

Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.

Thales

Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.

Thales

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

Thales

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

Terry Pratchett

Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

Terry Pratchett

Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.

Marcus Buckingham

We need to say goodbye to the traditional methodologies of corporate universities.

Kin Hubbard

If capital and labor ever do get together it's good night for the rest of us.

Melissa Marr

Good night, Seth." "So you're running again, then?" One of his boots thudded on the floor. "I'm not running." The other boot hit the floor. "Really?" "Really. It's just—" She stopped; she didn't have anything that would finish that sentence and be honest. "Maybe you should slow down, so I can catch you." He paused, waiting.

Michael Stuhlbarg

I was thrown into a community production of 'Bye Bye Birdie' or something when I was a kid. I wanted to just build the sets, but I wasn't allowed to just build the sets unless I auditioned for the play. So I auditioned for the play and was thrown into the chorus. During the course of that I fell in love with it, and I never really turned back.

Michael Palin

One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye.

Max Miller

My wife's the ugliest woman in the world - I'd sooner take her with me on tour, than kiss her goodbye.

Max Lucado

Don't equate the presence of God with a good mood or a pleasant temperament. God is near whether you are happy or not.

Maya Angelou

I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them. If a person can use a poem of mine to interpret her life or his life, good. I can't control that. Nor would I want to.

Maya Angelou

The woman who truly intends to live a good life is already living phenomenally since intent is part of the achievement.

Meg Ryan

I have a very good life, so I have nothing to complain about. Sometimes, I just have existential angst.

Meg Cabot

And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.

Meg Cabot

I may have been dead for the past hundred and fifty years, Susannah,...but that doesn't mean I don't know how people say good night. And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.

Max Stirner

The people is dead! Good-day, Self!

Matthew McConaughey

My lawyer has been a good friend of mine for a long time. He and I continuously have conversations.

Matthew Bourne

When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope.

Marilyn vos Savant

A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night.

Pablo Neruda

We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye.