Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jonathan Swift

Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

Jonathan Swift

In all I wish, how happy should I be, Thou grand Deluder, were it not for thee? So weak thou art that fools thy power despise; And yet so strong, thou triumph'st o'er the wise.

Jonathan Swift

I've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year; A handsome house to lodge a friend; A river at my garden's end; A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood.

Jonathan Swift

There's none so blind as they that won't see.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Life is scarier than death.

Jonathan Safran Foer

SADNESSES OF THE INTELLECT: Sadness of being misunderstood [sic]; Humor sadness; Sadness of love wit[hou]t release; Sadne[ss of be]ing smart; Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean]; Sadness of having options; Sadness of wanting sadness; Sadness of confusion; Sadness of domes[tic]ated birds; Sadness of fini[shi]ng a book; Sadness of remembering; Sadness of forgetting; Anxiety sadness...

Jonathan Safran Foer

I spent my life learning to feel less.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future.

Jonathan Safran Foer

It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

Napoleon Hill

Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objectives in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.

John Adams

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

Jack Welch

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

Jack Welch

Change before you have to.

Hartley Coleridge

Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.

Harvey Mackay

We all start out in life with one thing in common; We all have the same amount of time. It's just a matter of what we do with it.

Louise Erdrich

Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

Louise Erdrich

Life is made up of three kinds of people -- those who live it, those afraid to, those in between.

Louise Erdrich

We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.

George Bancroft

The charities of life are scattered everywhere, enameling the vales of human beings as the flowers paint the meadows. They are not the fruit of study, nor the privilege of refinement, but a natural instinct.

Charlie Trotter

The idea that you have to pursue greatness... it's up to you; it's your life.

Jennifer Grey

The idea that I can touch anybody's life in any way is perfect.

William Story

Ah! how ugly Life can beAfter Love from it is lopped!

William Story

Ah! how ugly Life can be After Love from it is lopped!

Dan Castellaneta

Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life have been without it?

You want your life back so bad. I spent months trying to get my life back. But that was the wrong goal.

James Altucher

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes

James Altucher

Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.

James Allen

All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your thoughts.

James Allen

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

James Allen

A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.

James Anthony Froude

We live merely on the crust or rind of things.