Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Wortley Montagu

Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge. . . and the longest life is too short.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Mary J. Blige

'My Life' is soft, with notes of pear and gardenia, but still bold, with a woody base.

Mary J. Blige

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

Martha Graham

You give all your life to doing this one thing. It sounds grim, it sounds frightening - it isn't - it has a great gaiety at times and a great wonder.

Martha Graham

We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.

Martha Graham

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

Marshall McLuhan

The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they are used that determines their value.

Marshall McLuhan

A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.

Mark Helprin

Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to compensate those it has cruelly abandoned. Whoever knows this is willing to suffer, for he knows that nothing is in vain.

Mark Haddon

And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what they can’t see, like the dark side of the moon, or the other side of a black hole, or in the dark when they wake up at night and they’re scared.

Mark Haddon

And it's best if you know a good thing is going to happen, like an eclipse or getting a microscope for Christmas. And it's bad if you know a bad thing is going to happen, like having a filling or going to France. But I think it is worst if you don't know whether it is a good thing or a bad thing which is going to happen.

Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Flowers and fruit are only the beginning. In the seed lies the life and the future.

Oswald Chambers

The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.

Oswald Chambers

I have to learn that the aim in life is God's, not mine.

Oswald Chambers

Eternal life is not a gift from God; eternal life is the gift OF GOD.

Paul Ryan

Life is short, you better make the most of it.

Paul Hawken

We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it.

Paul Auster

Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.

Paul Auster

When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an imaginary world, the pains of this world disappear. For as long as the story goes on, reality no longer exists.

Paul Auster

it's a rare day when she speaks in anything but platitudes--all those exhausted phrases and hand-me-down ideas that cram the dump sites of contemporary wisdom

Paul Auster

In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.

Patrick Henry

It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, “Peace! Peace!” — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

Pat Benatar

People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life.

Pat Conroy

All life connects ... Nothing happens that is meaningless.

Pat Conroy

There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

It is a maxim received in life that, in general, we can determine more wisely for others than for ourselves. The reason of it is so dear in argument that it hardly wants the confirmation of experience.

The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.

Julia Phillips

Her life was like running on a treadmill or riding on a stationary bike; it was aerobic, it was healthy, but she wasn't going anywhere.

Julia Margaret Cameron

The clock is ticking and you're hearing the beat. You stop by a museum shop, sign your name on a scuba-diving sheet, and commit yourself to Saturday mornings in the deep end. You're either losing your mind - or gaining your soul. Life is meant to be an artist date. That's why we were created.