Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Dryden

Pity melts the mind to love.

John Masefield

On the long dusty ribbon of the long city street, The pageant of life is passing me on multitudinous feet, With a word here of the hills, and a song there of the sea And-the great movement changes-the pageant passes me.

John Masefield

Love is a flame to burn out human wills, Love is a flame to set the will on fire, Love is a flame to cheat men into mire.

John Masefield

All ye that pass by! While we least think it he prepares his Mate. Mate, and the King's pawn played, it never ceases, Though all the earth is dust of taken pieces.

John Masefield

I must down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's over.

John Masefield

Man cannot call the brimming instant back; Time's an affair of instants spun to days; If man must make an instant gold, or black, Let him, he may; but Time must go his ways. Life may be duller for an instant's blaze. Life's an affair of instants spun to years, Instants are only cause of all these tears.

John Masefield

What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?

John Masefield

Life is a long headache in a noisy street.

John Masefield

To most of us the future seems unsure. But then it always has been; and we who have seen great changes must have great hopes.

John Mayer

If you had started doing anything two weeks ago, by today you would have been two weeks better at it.

John Major

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

John Malkovich

My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.

John Lennon

There are places I'll remember All my life though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some remain All these places have their moments With lovers and friends I still can recall Some are dead and some are living In my life I've loved them all

John Lennon

There's nothing you can do that can't be done Nothing you can sing that can't be sung Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game It's easy. All you need is love.

John Lennon

We all been playing those mind games forever Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil. Doing the mind guerrilla, Some call it magic - the search for the grail. Love is the answer and you know that for sure. Love is a flower, you got to let it - you got to let it grow.

John Lennon

How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?

John Lennon

Life is what happens when you make other plans.

John Lennon

Life is what's going on while your making other plans.

John Lennon

There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be...

John Lennon

Love is real, real is love.

John Lennon

I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before.

John Lennon

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

John Kitzhaber

I understand that I have become a liability to the very institutions and policies to which I have dedicated my career and, indeed, my entire adult life.

John Barth

Though life's tuition is always ruinous, inexorably we learn.

John Banville

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

John Banville

That's one of the many things I hate about life, that it's a hideously cliched business.

Jimmy Carr

I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way.

Jimmy Buffett

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

Jim Rohn

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Jim Rohn

Any day we wish we can discipline ourselves to change it all. Any day we wish; we can open the book that will open our mind to new knowledge. Any day we wish; we can start a new activity. Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change. We can do it immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year.

Jim Rohn

A few years ago I lost one of my dearest friends. He died at age 53 - heart attack. David is gone, but he was one of my very special friends. I used to say of David that if I was stuck in a foreign jail somewhere accused unduly and if they would allow me one phone call, I would call David. Why? He would come and get me. That's a friend. Somebody who would come and get you.

Jim Rohn

Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change.

Jim Rohn

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.