Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Connolly

If 'why' was the first and last question, then because I was curious to see what would happen was the first and last answer. A version of it had been spoken to God Himself in the Garden of Eden, and it was destined to be the reason for the end of things at the hands of man.

M. Scott Peck

Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others.

You can't reject anything in your life as an artist. Everything has its use.

Bill White

You can't predict the weather. Hurricanes can move in any direction. If you evacuate two or three times and it saves your life only once, that once is enough.

The majority of the people want the quality of life protected.

Claire Danes

The life of my persona has nothing to do with me,

Analeigh Tipton

The life of a working model in L.A. kind of sucks.

Frederick Douglass

The life of a nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous

James Gray

The life of a film is very strange. Once the film is done, you wish you could forget about it and move on.

The life I've lived, ... you don't see people that just pour out and give to you.

John Shimkus

The 'life' in 'pro-life' denotes not the quality of life, but life itself.

Make your life a mission - not an intermission.

Booker T. Washington

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

William Penn

The truest end of life is to know that life never ends.

These are habitats that are similar to the types of places that we think life could have originated in and possibility still survive in.

You want to talk about the worst week of your life? I was only 26 years old, and I was waiting to see if I had cancer.

Henry Drummond

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Joan Van Ark

You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7.

Abraham Lincoln

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

William Hazlitt

All that is worth remembering of life is the poetry of it

Deborah Moggach

All novelists I speak to about how they started usually say it was by pulling up their roots and going to live somewhere else. You see the shape of your life at a distance.

Susanne Bier

The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a will of its own.

Eric Hoffer

To lose one's life is but to lose the present; and, clearly, to lose a defiled, worthless present is not to lose much.

Eric Hoffer

It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living.

Eric Hoffer

Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

Eric Hoffer

The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.

Eric Hoffer

Perhaps a modern society can remain stable only by eliminating adolescence, by giving its young, from the age of ten, the skills, responsibilities, and rewards of grownups, and opportunities for action in all spheres of life. Adolescence should be a time of useful action, while book learning and scholarship should be a preoccupation of adults.

Eric Hoffer

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Eric Hoffer

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

Eric Berne

Whatever you do, think of next morning's headlines.

Eric Berne

Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.

Emo Philips

I'm filthy stinking rich - well, two out of three ain't bad.

The idea being that, over the life of the business, they make their money off software and peripherals.