Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erik Erikson

If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentially constructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essence developing, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age will stimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.

John Galsworthy

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

John Denver

Reach for the heavens, and hope for the future, and all that will be, not what we are.

Garrison Keillor

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.

Garrison Keillor

You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy.

Gabriela Mistral

Love beauty it is the shadow of God on the universe

Gabrielle Reece

I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.

Frank Lloyd Wright

A professional is one who does his best work when he feels the least like working.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Frank Lloyd Wright

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

Francois Mauriac

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads.

Frank A. Clark

If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

George Clooney

You never really learn much from hearing yourself talk.

George Clooney

I know love at first sight can work. It happened to my parents.

George Clooney

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life.

Lord Acton

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lois McMaster Bujold

An honor is not diminished for being shared.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

Liz Carpenter

How to get a job: Speak up and show some life about you. Almost anyone who can give you a decent job these days is half deaf.

Lloyd Jones

Men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.

Livy

Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue

Lyndon B. Johnson

Life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

Ludacris

Life is short if you don't notice it'll pass you by, That's why my head is in the clouds trying to pass the sky.

Louis C. K.

People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound. They're like, 'It was the worst day of my life. We didn't board for 20 minutes and they made us sit there on the runway for 40 minutes.' Oh really? What happened next? Did you fly in the air, incredibly, like a bird? Did you partake in the miracle of human flight you non-contributing zero?'

Louis Aragon

Your imagination, my dear fellow, is worth more than you imagine.

Louis Armstrong

Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him.

Loretta Lynn

You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it.