Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character develops itself in the stream of life.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.]

Joanne Harris

Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.

Joachim du Bellay

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!

Jo Coudert

Every life is a dilemma that must be solved by the person living it.

Jimmy Carter

Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people cant. But I dont believe that the Federal Government should take action to try to make these opportunities exactly equal, particularly when there is a moral factor involved.

Jimmy Carter

We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.

Jimmy Carter

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

Jimmy Carter

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

Jimmy Carter

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

John Cage

We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.

John Cage

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear. In fact, try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Immanuel Kant

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Robert Fulghum

You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it.

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

Leonard Maltin

The Little Rascals: The Life and Times of Our Gang.

Muhammad Ali

Life is so, so short. Bible says it's like a vapor.

Mencius

People can have a long-term life plan only if they know their private property is secure.

James Thurber

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

James Prescott Joule

The most convincing proof of the conversion of heat into living force [vis viva] has been derived from my experiments with the electro-magnetic engine, a machine composed of magnets and bars of iron set in motion by an electrical battery. I have proved by actual experiment that, in exact proportion to the force with which this machine works, heat is abstracted from the electrical battery. You see, therefore, that living force may be converted into heat, and that heat may be converted into living force, or its equivalent attraction through space.

James Packer

Business is good right now, but now my personal life is a disaster.

James Patterson

They're afraid of change, and we must change. They're afraid of the young, and we are the young. They're afraid of music, and music is our life. They're afraid of books, and knowledge, and ideas. They're most afraid of our magic.

James Patterson

Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's what they tell us in school and in the New York Times Review. In fact, it's a good thing that stories are as different as we are, one from another.

James Patterson

Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?

James Patterson

Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet.

James Merrill

In life, there are no perfect affections.