Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paolo Bacigalupi

Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.

Paracelsus

Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.

Paramahansa Yogananda

The things you need in life are those that will help you to fulfill your dominant purpose. Things you may want but not need may lead you aside from that purpose. It is only by making everything serve your main objective that success is attained.

Paramahansa Yogananda

A good rule in life is to tell yourself simply, 'What comes of itself, let it come.

Paramahansa Yogananda

If you are posing as religious and are not living the life as stressed by God, you should wake up. It is wrong to be insincere. The best time to begin a religious life is when you are youthful and well. If you have a short time to live, you must work harder at it. And if you have along time to live, you should not waste that precious opportunity.

Paramahansa Yogananda

A smooth life is not a victorious life.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself......

Owen Wister

When you can't have what you choose, you just choose what you have.

Ovid

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs.

Ovid

We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.

Ovid

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Ovid

Thus I am not able to exist either with you or without you; and I seem not to know my own wishes.

Ovid

Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love.

Ovid

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

Otto Frank

I shall remember the look in Margot's eyes all my life.

Paul Martin

At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold.

Paul McCartney

We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us. We've been through a lot and we've reached a stage where we really value life.

Paul McCartney

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

Patton Oswalt

There are times when I have to take, I call it a 'silence bath,' where I shut off all of the external gadgets. I go walk around, talk to people, and just live life for a while.

Peter Garrett

Life is very short; be willing to serve.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love, from its awful throne of patient power In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep, And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs And folds over the world its healing wings.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

And bid them love each other and be blest: And leave the troop which errs, and which reproves, And come and be my guest, - for I am Love's.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

I love Love - though he has wings, And like light can flee, But above all other things, Spirit, I love thee - Thou art love and life! Oh come, Make once more my heart thy home.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

In proportion to the love existing among men, so will be the community of property and power. Among true and real friends, all is common; and, were ignorance and envy and superstition banished from the world, all mankind would be friends. The only perfect and genuine republic is that which comprehends every living being. Those distinctions which have been artificially set up, of nations, societies, families, and religions, are only general names, expressing the abhorrence and contempt with which men blindly consider their fellowmen.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love's Pestilence, and her slow dogs of war.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The One remains, the many change and pass; Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The most refined abstractions of logic conduct to a view of life, which, though startling to the apprehension, is, in fact, that which the habitual sense of its repeated combinations has extinguished in us. It strips, as it were, the painted curtain from this scene of things. I confess that I am one of those who are unable to refuse my assent to the conclusions of those philosophers who assert that nothing exists but as it is perceived.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of eternity.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.