Famous Quotes & Sayings

Judy Blume

I think about Lenaya and Hugh. Will they know how much I've changed this year? Will they have changed too? I'll wait until tomorrow to find out. And then it's possible I won't find out after all. Because some changes happen deep down inside of you. And the truth is, only you know about them. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.

Joseph Conrad

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.

Joseph Conrad

A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.

Joseph Conrad

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.

Joseph Conrad

Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.

Joseph Conrad

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Joseph Conrad

No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone.

Joseph Conrad

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Joseph Conrad

Like a flash of lightning between the clouds, we live in the flicker.

Joseph Conrad

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

Joseph Conrad

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

Joseph Conrad

The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Joseph Conrad

It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.

Joshua Chamberlain

The inspiration of a noble cause involving human interests wide and far, enables men to do things they did not dream themselves capable of before, and which they were not capable of alone. The consciousness of belonging, vitally, to something beyond individuality; of being part of a personality that reaches we know not where, in space and time, greatens the heart to the limit of the souls ideal, and builds out the supreme character.

Joseph Butler

But to us, probability is the very guide of life.

Kate Millett

Life is a publicity stunt. A shill. You've been had.

Kate Millett

Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.

Kate Morton

Happiness in life is not a given, it must be seized.

Kate Morton

He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.

Kate Morton

You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off the page.

Karrine Steffans

Life is a lot easier when you realize that you're not in control of it all.

Karlie Kloss

If you believe in yourself and feel confident in yourself, you can do anything. I really believe that.

Leona Lewis

My private life is the most precious thing to me.

Leonard Cohen

I am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me.

Leonard Cohen

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

Leonard Cohen

Love is not a victory march

Leonard Cohen

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Lawton Chiles

We have entered the era of the 'imperial' former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.

Laurel Clark

Life continues in lots of places, and life is a magical thing.

Lauren Bacall

A planned life is a dead life.

Lauren Bacall

Life is not what you expected it to be.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Life is often like that, the best balancing on a knife edge with the worst.

Laurell K. Hamilton

My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.