Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joe Baca

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

Joan Chen

All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away.

Joan Baez

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

Joan Baez

Action is the antidote to despair.

Jimmy Johnson

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Louise Hay

I breathe in the fullness and richness of life.

Louise Hay

Everything you need comes to you in perfect time, space and sequence.

Louise Hay

I have noticed that the Universe loves gratitude. The more grateful you are, the more goodies you get. When I say 'goodies', I don't mean only material things. I mean all the people, places and experiences that make life so wonderfully worth living.

Lolo Jones

Stepping on that line for me, it will be about facing my fears.

Lois Wyse

Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.

Lois Wyse

The single and most dangerous word to be spoken in business is no. The second most dangerous word is yes. It is possible to avoid saying either.

Lois Wyse

Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

Logan Pearsall Smith

If it's to be, it's up to me.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Logan Pearsall Smith

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!

Logan Pearsall Smith

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Lloyd Alexander

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

LL Cool J

Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals.

Mao Zedong

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

Mao Zedong

Learn from the masses, and then teach them.

Madeleine L'Engle

The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in the infinitely small world of particle physics indicate randomness and chance, and I do not find it any more difficult to live with the paradox of a universe of randomness and chance and a universe of pattern and purpose than I do with light as a wave and light as a particle. Living with contradiction is nothing new to the human being.

Madeleine L'Engle

Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.

Madeleine L'Engle

Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.

Madeleine L'Engle

Because to take away a man's freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.

Madeleine L'Engle

Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.

Lynne Cheney

Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

Lucy Larcom

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

Lucy Larcom

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.

Louisa May Alcott

Oft in the silence of the night, When the lonely moon rides high, When wintry winds are whistling, And we hear the owl's shrill cry, In the quiet, dusky chamber, By the flickering firelight, Rising up between two sleepers, Comes a spirit all in white.

Louisa May Alcott

Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us.

Louisa May Alcott

I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within.

Louisa May Alcott

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.