Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shirin Neshat

The first years of my life in the U.S. were very difficult.

The first weekend in September stands for the pure zest for life. A warm welcome to Berlin!

Matthew Lewis

You can stay true to yourself and your friends, you can do the right thing, you can do with your life whatever you want to. I think that's a lovely message.

Emmeline Pankhurst

...the moving spirit of militancy is deep and abiding reverence for human life.

Emmitt Smith

Marriage is not something that's easy, but nothing in life is easy.

Emmet Fox

Life is a state of consciousness.

Emmet Fox

The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.

James Cash Penney

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

Napoleon Hill

Enthusiasm, if fueled by inspiration and perseverance, travels with passion and its destination is excellence.

Napoleon Hill

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Napoleon Hill

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

Napoleon Hill

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

Napoleon Hill

Failure cannot cope with persistence.

Napoleon Hill

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Napoleon Hill

You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.

Napoleon Hill

Life reflects your own thoughts back to you.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.

Middle-aged life is merry, and I love to lead it.

Og Mandino

AI will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force.

Og Mandino

I shall live this day as if it is my last. And if it is not, I shall fall to my knees and give thanks.

Og Mandino

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

Og Mandino

I will make love my greatest weapon and none on whom I call can defend against its force. My reasoning they may counter; my speech they may distrust; my apparel they may disapprove; my face they may reject; and even my bargains may cause them suspicion; yet my love will melt all hearts liken to the sun whose rays soften the coldest clay. I will greet this day with love in my heart.

Og Mandino

Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.

Norman Mailer

We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we called plastic. They had no odor of the living, ... their touch was alien to nature. ... [They proliferated] like the matastases of cancer cells.

Norman Mailer

There are days when I'll wake up and think, oh, I've really been something. You know, it won't be the same without me. And then there are days when I wake up and I say, 'Don't kid yourself. Your contribution was minimal. You changed very little. Everything you hated prospered'.

Norman Mailer

Is one human? Or merely alive? Like a blade of grass equal to all existance in the moment it is torn? Yes. If pain is fundament, then a blade of grass can know all there is.

Orrin Hatch

I think that support of this [stem cell] research is a pro-life pro-family position. This research holds out hope for more than 100 million Americans.

Orson Welles

Living in the lap of luxury isn't bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.

Orson Welles

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Orlando Bloom

Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.