Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Life has value only when it has something valuable as its object.

Geoff Thompson

Whatever inspires you fires you.

Geoff Tate

Go ahead without me, I'll find my own way.

Garrett Hedlund

You look at what interests a person and then you formulate what their opinions are, in terms of how they see the world, and how they see love and life.

Garrison Keillor

I'm of an age when if I started to do eulogies, I'd be doing nothing else. You don't want to be remembered? I don't want them to be told to remember me.

Garrison Keillor

Life is continuous. Life never stops. We come to the really great questions and before we can answer them, life has moved on to something else.

Francois Fenelon

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

Frank Lloyd Wright

No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Frank A. Clark

Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.

Frank A. Clark

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.

George Cukor

You learn out of bitter experience, trial and error. Life teaches you that. As sincere as you all are, you can't learn it all in school.

George Crabbe

Let's learn to live, for we must die alone.

George Crabbe

Shall he who soars, inspired by loftier views, Life's little cares and little pains refuse? Shall he not rather feel a double share Of mortal woe, when doubly arm'd to bear?

George Crabbe

Life's bloomy flush was lost.

George Crabbe

Life is not measured by the time we live.

George Crabbe

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

Gayle Forman

Nothing happens without intention, Willem. Nothing. This theory of yours - life is rules by accidents - isn't that just one huge excuse for passivity?

Gayle Forman

I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.

Gayle Forman

I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.

Gayle Forman

Life is a big fat gigantic stinking mess, that's the beauty of it, too.

Gayle Forman

Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

Lois McMaster Bujold

My home is not a place, it is people.

Liz Carpenter

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

Lynda Barry

I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.