Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope Benedict XVI

The outpouring of Christ's blood is the source of the church's life.

Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.

Si Robertson

The Bible says that you marry for life, okay. It's a lifetime decision.

Ranbir Kapoor

I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show.

Randy Pausch

There's nothing about my life that I would have changed.

Abbie Hoffman

Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.

A. E. Housman

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

A. C. Benson

Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

A. C. Benson

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

A. A. Milne

I do like a little bit of butter to my bread.

A. E. Housman

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

A. E. Housman

Oh when I was in love with you, Then I was clean and brave, And miles around the wonder grew How well did I behave. And now the fancy passes by, And nothing will remain, And miles around they'll say that I Am quite myself again.

James L. Brooks

I love it if comedy reflects real life because to me it's more reassuring that we'll get through.

James Hetfield

If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.

Aeschylus

Sweet is a grief well ended.

Adrienne Rich

We see daily that our lives are terrible and little, without continuity, buyable and salable at any moment, mere blips on a screen, that this is the way we live now. Memory marketed as nostalgia; terror reduced to mere suspense, to melodrama.

Adrienne Rich

A life I didn't choose chose me: even my tools are the wrong ones for what I have to do.

Adrienne Rich

Can you remember? when we thought the poets taught how to live?

Agatha Christie

In the midst of life, we are in death.

Agatha Christie

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.

Agatha Christie

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.

Adrien Brody

It's interesting, winning an Academy Award as a young man... life-changing, but I'm just me within that. It's been very helpful for my career, but I'm trying to stay on the path I was on before.

Adrian Rogers

Much of God's will for your life is already found in the Bible.

Adam Smith

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Adam Smith

With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches.

Adam Leipzig

The unexamined life is not worth living. But if all you're doing is examining, then you're not living!

Adam Michnik

Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely.

Adam Johnson

Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?

Abraham Cahan

Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.

Abraham Cowley

His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.

Abraham Cowley

Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.

Abraham Cowley

Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.

Abraham Cowley

Vain, weak-built isthmus, which dost proudly rise Up between two eternities!