Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cassandra Clare

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters.

Cassandra Clare

Sometimes," Jem said, "our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts. It's those times, I think, when our lives have altered but we still long for the time before everything was altered-- that is when we feel the greatest pain. I can tell you, though, from experience, you grow accustomed to it. You learn to live your new life, and you can't imagine, or even really remember, how things were before.

Cassandra Clare

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

Carolyn Mackler

The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.

Carolyn Mackler

Life's a car ride...Sometimes it's cruise control down smooth highways. Other times it's potholes on rural roads.

Carolyn Heilbrun

It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Whether deliberately, unconsciously or accidentally, she seems to have composed her own life so that its fitful, rudderless, and self-doubting first half was alchemized into gold when the austere bluestocking became the fallen woman.

Carly Simon

Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.

Carmelo Anthony

You just got ta believe, i have never been a quitter in my life or in my career.

Kyle Kinane

I now get to have the life I wanted when I was 18 years old. Now, I'm like, 'I can buy any skateboard I want.'

Kyle Kinane

I'm glad I'm a comedian. Otherwise, my life would just be a series of undocumented low points.

Kyle Kinane

The exciting part about life is finding out what you can't do, because you don't find out until you try to do something and you're stopped.

Kodi Smit-McPhee

I think everyone has been different once in their life.

Kevin Connolly

I got no entourage in real life. Solo. I go solo. No entourage.

Kim Edwards

Though my stories aren't autobiographical, I do sometimes use things from my life.

John Burnside

All my life, I have been a celebrant of Halloween. For me, it is the most important day of the year, the turning point in the old pagan calendar.

Muriel Rukeyser

Try to live as if there were a God

Mickey Rooney

I belong to the public. The public made me. The public can break me. I owe them my life.

Mickey Rooney

Life is an infiltration course. We all try and get through it. We all try and get through it unscathed - maybe not hurt, not bruised. No bones broken, maybe a few hearts here and there.

Mickey Rooney

On Hollywood turning its back on him: I wasn't in the club. You see, I'm not going to be a stroker. I never have been all my life.

Mickey Rooney

Now. Now is the most important time of all of your young lives. And what does now stand for - N-O-W? No Other Way. That's the only time - NOW!

Kenneth Tynan

All of life is more or less what the French would call s'imposer, to be able to create one's own terms for what one does.

Kenneth Rexroth

The holiness of the real Is always there, accessible In total immanence. The nodes Of transcendence coagulate In you, the experiencer, And in the other, the lover.

Kenneth Rexroth

Love is the garment of knowledge.

Kenneth Rexroth

The free, creative, loving people who shine so brightly in my memory of studios and coffee shops have become models for a huge section of the population. If they in turn can just stay alive in the face of power and terror, they may become the decisive section.

Kenneth Rexroth

Now I know surely and forever, However much I have blotted our Waking love, its memory is still there. And I know the web, the net, The blind and crippled bird. For then, for One brief instant it was not blind, nor Trapped, not crippled. For one heart beat the Heart was free and moved itself. O love, I who am lost and damned with words, Whose words are a business and an art, I have no words. These words, this poem, this Is all confusion and ignorance. But I know that coached by your sweet heart, My heart beat one free beat and sent Through all my flesh the blood of truth.

Kathleen Norris

Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incidentally thereby affecting for good such other souls as come under our influence.

Karl Liebknecht

The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.

Karl Marx

The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities.

Karl Marx

Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life.

Karl Marx

As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.

Kaley Cuoco

I had sinus surgery the day after Christmas and it has been the worst surgery of my life. Very painful, and on top of it everyone of course thought I got a nose job. Which is so funny because if you know me I would have told you I got a nose job I'm not gonna keep it a secret.

Julia Child

Life itself is the proper binge.