Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Jordan

A man without trust is a man without life.

William Harvey

And so I conclude that blood lives and is nourished of itself and in no way depends on any other part of the body as being prior to it or more excellent... So that from this we may perceive the causes not only of life in general... but also of longer or shorter life, of sleeping and waking, of skill, of strength and so forth.

William Hazlitt

Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot.

William Hazlitt

Good temper is an estate for life.

William Hazlitt

Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

William Hazlitt

The more we do, the more we can do.

William Hazlitt

So I have loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to make me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything.

William Hazlitt

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

Walter Payton

Tough times go away, tough people do not.

Walter Raleigh

What is our life? A play of passion. Our mirth the music of division. Our mother's wombs the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.

W. Somerset Maugham

The passing moment is all we can be sure of; it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.

W. Somerset Maugham

The tragedy of love is indifference.

W. Somerset Maugham

..as the cosmos are in place, so be it with your life...

W. Somerset Maugham

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

W. Somerset Maugham

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Vladimir Nabokov

Life is short. From here to that old car you know so well there is a stretch of twenty, twenty-five paces. It is a very short walk. Make those twenty-five steps. Now. Right now. Come just as you are. And we shall live happily ever after.

Vladimir Nabokov

Do not be awed by giant predecessors. Be ill-tempered with their renown. Point out flaws. Frighten interviewers from Time. Appear in Playboy. Sell to the movies.

Vladimir Nabokov

If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

Vladimir Nabokov

Let all of life be an unfettered howl.

Yoko Ono

If your life changes, we can change the world, too.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it was somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed this fact. But grasping this firmly, one must pile experience upon experience. And once one has come to this understanding he will be a different person from that point on, though he may not always bare it in mind. When one understands this settling into single-mindedness well, his affairs will thin out.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you will still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.

Yann Martel

A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably.

Yann Martel

If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?

Yann Martel

Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud...

Yann Martel

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

Wynonna Judd

You'll be surprised how much better you feel about the world when you feel better about your self.

Wynton Marsalis

Jazz is democracy in music.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music is my life and my life is music.

Willie Stargell

Helping someone is what life is all about.

Willie Nelson

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

William Peter Blatty

We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops---which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depth of desolation, never to despair.

William Osler

Engrossed late and soon in professional cares, getting and spending, you may may so lay waste your powers that you may find, too late, with hearts given away, that t here is no place in your habit-stricken souls for those gentler influences which make your life worth living.