Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Cowley

Life is an incurable disease.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ....get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

Time is one measure of life, ... Time wasted is life wasted, time saved is life saved.

Traveling is magical, inspiring, and life - changing.

Javier Bardem

You know I don't like to talk about my personal life.

Steve Case

When I saw it, I really thought it could be more of a lifestyle brand, much like Nike.

Rebecca Ferguson

When I first studied Billie Holiday's life story years ago, I admit that I was quite judgmental.

We know they're going to press and make life uncomfortable for us,

Ludwig von Mises

The history of mankind is the history of ideas. For it is ideas, theories, and doctrines that guide human action, determine the ultimate ends men aim at, and the choice of the means employed for the attainment of these ends.

Ludwig von Mises

True, man cannot escape death. But for the present he is alive; and life, not death, takes hold of him... It is mans innate nature that he seeks to preserve and to strengthen his life, that he is discontented and aims at removing uneasiness, that he is in search of what may be called happiness.

Ludwig von Mises

The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

Heinrich Boll

Literature has its own life, even in a dictatorship like the Soviet Union.

Halston Sage

I went to an all-girls school, and I always felt like I missed out on a traditional high-school life.

Jacques Villeneuve

Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.

Tariq Aziz

We are not the kind that will surrender to them (coalition forces) just to live a wretched life for two or three years.

Horace Mann

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Jack Johnson

We've got everything we need right here, and everything we need is enough.

Petrarch

And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt, Left here without the light I loved so much, In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.

William Shakespeare

Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done.

William Shakespeare

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me prov'd, I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd.

William Shakespeare

On a day - alack the day! - Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair Playing in the wanton air

William Shakespeare

Her father lov'd me; oft invited me; Still question'd me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have pass'd.

William Shakespeare

Reason thus with life: If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep.

William Shakespeare

So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't.

William Shakespeare

Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious in mortality: All is but toys; renown, and grace is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.

William Shakespeare

That but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'ld jump the life to come.

William Shakespeare

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit; But life, being weary of these worldly bars, Never lacks power to dismiss itself.

William Shakespeare

This day I breathed first: time is come round, And where I did begin there shall I end; My life is run his compass.

William Shakespeare

I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.

William Shakespeare

The sands are number'd that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.

William Shakespeare

O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.