Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julie Morgenstern

Each time we go through a major life change (getting married or divorced, moving, having a family, switching careers, starting a new business, going back to school), we experience a breakdown of our organizational systems. It's inevitable-we are dealing with a new set of realities-and it takes time to process the information and to actually see what there is to organize.

Joy Baluch

Life marches by, I suggest you get on with it.

Joyce Brothers

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Julianne Hough

Grease' is one of the movies that made me want to be an entertainer, and I have literally been waiting my whole life to play Sandy.

Julianne Moore

I was lucky enough to come in at the beginning of the independent film movement and its really shaped my life and career.

Jules Michelet

Animal life, sombre mystery. All nature protests against the barbarity of man, who misapprehends, who humiliates, who tortures his inferior brethren.

Joshua L. Liebman

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

Joshua Reynolds

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

Josh Billings

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

Josh Billings

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Josh Billings

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

Josh Billings

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

Josh Billings

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Josh Billings

Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.

Karl G. Maeser

Make the man within your living ideal.

Karl G. Maeser

A being without an aim in life, or not possessing the requisite concentration of purpose to assist him in resisting temptation, is like a cork floating upon the water, driven hither and thither by every wind that blows.

Karl G. Maeser

School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.

Karl Barth

Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.

Karl Kraus

Family life is an encroachment on private life.

Karl Kraus

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

Karl Kraus

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

Karl Kraus

The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Karl Kraus

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Karl Lagerfeld

I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.

Julius Caesar

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

Julius Caesar

People readily believe what they want to believe.

Julius Caesar

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

Julius Caesar

No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.

Julius Caesar

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

Julius Caesar

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Julius Caesar

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.

Joyce Cary

I had from childhood not only the experience of love and truth common to all family life, but the idea of them embodied in the person of Jesus, a picture always present to our imagination as well as our feelings.

Joyce Cary

I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming to give it back, I have no right to complain.