Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Russo

And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again.

Richard Francis Burton

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, themagic Laby'rinth's single clue...

Richard Francis Burton

Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause. He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

Richard Ford

Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.

Rich Robinson

I hold my time with the Black Crowes with the utmost respect and sincerest appreciation. It is a huge swath of my life's body of work, i couldn't be more proud of what we accomplished and deeply moved by the relationships people created and maintained with my music. That alone is the greatest honor of being a musician.

Rebecca Wells

It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

Reba McEntire

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

Robert De Niro

I have to be able to trust you with my life. Do you understand?

Robert C. Solomon

Spirituality can be severed from both vicious sectarianism and thoughtless banalities. Spirituality, I have come to see, is nothing less than the thoughtful love of life. [Spirituality for the Skeptic]

Roald Dahl

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

Roald Dahl

It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.

Roald Dahl

I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be

Roald Dahl

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Richard Preston

In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple.

Richard Rodriguez

Though I am alive now, I do not believe an old man's pessimism is nessessarily truer than a young man's optimism simply because it comes after. There are things a young man knows that are true and are not yet in the old man's power to recollect. Spring has its sappy wisdom.

Richard Le Gallienne

How much more interesting life would be if only more people had the courage and skill to act themselves, instead of abjectly understudying some one else!

Richard L. Evans

But fortunately for us and for all men, it has not been given unto us to judge, nor to execute, nor to measure out the days and the years of men. We may be most grateful that such matters belong to the Lord God our Father, who sees things past and things to come. And, we may be grateful for the assurance that there is plan and purpose in this world, and in our own lives.

Richard L. Evans

There must be a priority of values in all our lives.

Richard L. Evans

Enjoy life while it is happening.

Richard L. Evans

There are few of us but who have been touched somehow by death. Some may not have been touched closely by it nor yet have kept vigil with it, but somewhere along our lives, most of us are sorely bereft of someone near and deeply cherished - and all of us will some day meet it face to face.

Richard L. Evans

It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther.

Richard L. Evans

This is life-and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

Richard L. Evans

When in the world are we going to begin to live as if we understood that this is life? This is our time, our day...and it is passing. What are we waiting for?

Richard L. Evans

May we never let the things we can't have, or don't have, or shouldn't have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness let us not forget it. For one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have.

Tupac Shakur

What doesn't kill me just makes me stronger

Tupac Shakur

I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

Tupac Shakur

There’s no way that Michael Jackson or whoever Jackson should have a million thousand droople billion dollars and then there’s people starving. There’s no way! There’s no way that these people should own planes and there people don’t have houses. Apartments. Shacks. Drawers. Pants! I know you’re rich. I know you got 40 billion dollars, but can you just keep it to one house? You only need ONE house. And if you only got two kids, can you just keep it to two rooms? I mean why have 52 rooms and you know there’s somebody with no room?! It just don’t make sense to me. It don’t.

Tupac Shakur

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

Tupac Shakur

Life's a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference.

Tracy Chevalier

He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.

Tracy Kidder

You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to be worthy of happiness.

Tori Amos

Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.

Valerie Cruz

Life is like Avant Garde. It will make you uncomfortable, and leave the room. But always remember to come back and watch the artist bow.