Famous Quotes & Sayings

Esther Hicks

Unless you choose to take action on what you want, nothing is ever going to come out of it.

Ernest Hemingway

Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.

Ernest Hemingway

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Ernest Hemingway

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

Ernest Hemingway

I know now that there is no one thing that is true - it is all true.

Ernest Hemingway

The thing is to become a master and in your old age to acquire the courage to do what children did when they knew nothing.

Ernest Hemingway

The hard part about writing a novel is finishing it.

Ernest Hemingway

As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.

Ernest Hemingway

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

Ernest Hemingway

Man is not made for defeat.

Ernest Hemingway

All things truly wicked start from innocence.

Ernest Hemingway

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

Ernest Hemingway

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

Evita Peron

I demanded more rights for women because I know what women had to put up with.

Erykah Badu

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

Fantasia Barrino

I want to do all types of music, music for all people. I want my music to be encouraging, to help people.

F. H. Bradley

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

Ezra Taft Benson

To a significant degree, we are an overfed and undernourished nation digging an early grave with our teeth, and lacking the energy that could be ours because we overindulge in junk foods.

Francis Bacon

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

Frances Farmer

That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?

George Washington

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Flannery O'Connor

I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.

Herbert Hoover

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

Cat Stevens

To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

Franz Liszt

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Christine Lagarde

Tackling climate change is a collective endeavour, it means collective accountability and it's not too late

Christine Lagarde

Massive progress has been made in the last five years. More progress has to be made in terms of fiscal union and banking union.

Christie Brinkley

I always say, the bigger the hair, the smaller the hips!

Isabel Allende

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.