Famous Quotes & Sayings

Langston Hughes

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Langston Hughes

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

John Keble

New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.

John Keats

I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.

John Keats

Ghosts of melodious prophesyings rave Round every spot where trod Apollo's foot; Bronze clarions awake, and faintly bruit, Where long ago a giant battle was; And, from the turf, a lullaby doth pass In every place where infant Orpheus slept. Feel we these things? - that moment have we stept Into a sort of oneness, and our state Is like a floating spirit's. But there are Richer entanglements, enthralments far More self-destroying, leading, by degrees, To the chief intensity: the crown of these Is made of love and friendship, and sits high Upon the forehead of humanity.

John Keats

Love in a hut, with water and a crust, Is - Love, forgive us! - cinders, ashes, dust.

John Keats

And there shall be for thee all soft delight That shadowy thought can win, A bright torch, and a casement ope at night, To let the warm Love in!

John Keats

I wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. Every hour I am more and more concentrated in you; everything else tastes like chaff in my mouth.

John Keats

It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time.

John Keats

The uttered part of a man's life, let us always repeat, bears to the unuttered, unconscious part a small unknown proportion. He himself never knows it, much less do others.

John Keats

The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.

John Keats

Stop and consider! life is but a day

John Keats

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory, and very few eyes can see the mystery of his life, a life like the scriptures, figurative.

John Keats

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

John Keats

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?

John Keats

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

John Kenneth Galbraith

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

John Deacon

But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.

John D. Rockefeller

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

John D. Rockefeller

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

John D. Rockefeller

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

Lionel Trilling

It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.

Lionel Trilling

Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader--it is never quite oneself. 2) I usually hate the sight of my handwriting--it lives too much and I dislike its life--I mean by "lives," of course, betrays too much!

Linus Pauling

We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals.

Linus Pauling

The nucleic acids, as constituents of living organisms, are comparable In importance to proteins. There is evidence that they are Involved In the processes of cell division and growth, that they participate In the transmission of hereditary characters, and that they are important constituents of viruses. An understanding of the molecular structure of the nucleic acids should be of value In the effort to understand the fundamental phenomena of life.

Linus Pauling

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Linus Pauling

Life ... is a relationship between molecules.

Lindsey Vonn

Life changes very quickly in a very positive way if you let it.

Lindsay Lohan

I saw my whole life in front of me, and I had to let go of past things that I was trying to hold on to that were dark in my life.

Linda Ellerbee

Always remember to set a place at the table of life for the unexpected guest.

Lil Wayne

My life is like a movie and I do my own stunts