Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jack London

. . . and God knows we are sensitive to the suffering that has sometimes broken loose to come billowing forth from your appendages like the pungent vapors of whales - often it appears that in this life of experience and accommodation we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. But Sissy . . . hold on!

J. Reuben Clark

There is no royal road to any learning, no matter what it is. There is no royal road to any righteous living, no matter who you are or what you are. There is no royal road to anything that is worthwhile. Nothing that is deserving of earning or of cherishing comes except through hard work. I care not how much of a genius you may be, the rule will still hold.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Buy whatever kids are selling on card tables in their front yard.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Don't judge those who try and fail. Judge only those who fail to try.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Give people a second chance, but not a third.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I've learned... . That being kind is more important than being right.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The shortest way to get anywhere is to have good company.

H. P. Lovecraft

Though not a participant in the Business of life; I am, like the character of Addison and Steele, an impartial (or more or less impartial) Spectator, who finds not a little recreation in watching the antics of those strange and puny puppets called men.

George Herbert

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

George Herbert

Give me simplicity, that I may live, So live and like, that I may know Thy ways, Know them and practise them: then shall I give For this poor wreath, give Thee a crown of praise.

George Herbert

You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.

George Herbert

Life is half spent before we know what it is.

George Herbert

Every mile is two in winter

George Herbert

Where there is peace, God is.

George Herbert

The shortest answer is doing.

Georg Buchner

Do you know, Valerio, that even the least among all humans is so great that life is far too short to love him?

Georg C. Lichtenberg

In mathematical analysis we call x the undetermined part of line a: the rest we don't call y, as we do in common life, but a-x. Hence mathematical language has great advantages over the common language.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears...as easily as we open and shut our eyes.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

Gene Oliver

Every path serves a purpose.

Gary Kemp

Your life is the same wherever you go.

Gary Johnson

Life's a party. Invite yourself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.

Friedrich Nietzsche

One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thinking evil is making evil.

Jessica Simpson

Life is definitely always about expanding. That's how we grow.

Jerry Cantrell

Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.

Cassie Steele

I feel like my life is pretty much on display. So much of it is working, and that's really all I want to do. I'm an open book.

If I had stayed on medication, I don't think there's any way my life would be as together as it is now.

If I had stayed in Belfast, my life there wouldn't have as easy as it was in Scotland. I see the strain on the people who stayed. Always worrying about the safety of their children.

Scott Weiland

I don't want to stay on the road for the rest of my life. I have two kids.

Kay Redfield Jamison

It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy.