Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Klee

One eye sees, the other feels.

Patrick Swayze

I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

Paracelsus

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new.

Paracelsus

Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.

Paracelsus

Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.

Paracelsus

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

Paramahansa Yogananda

I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Whenever you want to produce something, do not depend upon the outside source: go deep and seek the Infinite Source.

Owen D. Young

I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

The greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance.

Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.

Owen Wilson

You know how they say we only use 10 percent of our brains? I think we only use 10 percent of our hearts.

Ovid

The end doesn't justify the means.

Ovid

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

Ovid

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop

Ovid

Change is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Oscar Hammerstein II

There is a very real relationship, both quantitatively and qualitatively, between what you contribute and what you get out of this world.

P. C. Cast

Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.

Paul Martin

Since one never knows what will be the line of advance, it is always most rash to condemn what is not quite in the fashion of the moment.

Paul McCartney

The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.

Patty Duke

It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

Pericles

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!

Paullina Simons

Though much is taken, much abides; and though we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are— Unyielding.

Paul Valery

Whoever wants to accomplish great things must devote to a lot of profound thought to details.

Paul Valery

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

Paul Valery

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Paul Virilio

The invention of the ship was also the invention of the shipwreck.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

OK, I'll put it like this: I doubt if we will see another All-American basketball athlete who is a Rhodes Scholar.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

There's a ball. There's a hoop. You put the ball through the hoop. That's success.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify.