Famous Quotes & Sayings

Danny Bonaduce

My motto in life is, 'If anything is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.'

Dag Hammarskjold

Smiling, sincere, incorruptible - His body disciplined and limber. A man who had become what he could, And was what he was- Ready at any moment to gather everything Into one simple sacrifice.

Dag Hammarskjold

Life yields only to the conqueror.

Dag Hammarskjold

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

Dag Hammarskjold

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Dag Hammarskjold

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

Dag Hammarskjold

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Dag Hammarskjold

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

Dag Hammarskjold

You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.

Daisaku Ikeda

It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life.

Daisaku Ikeda

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

Daisaku Ikeda

Like the ocean that remains calm in its depths even when waves rage over its surface, and like the sun that continues shining on high even during storms, we can at each moment create value and develop our state of life, enjoying our existence to the fullest in times of both suffering and joy.

Condoleezza Rice

Differences can be strength rather than a handicap.

I am aware that my name has been connected with all the bank robberies in the country; but positively I had nothing to do with any one of them. I look upon my life since the war as a blank, and will never say anything to make it appear otherwise.

I never, in all my life, had anything whatever to do with robbing any bank in the state of Missouri.

Andy Serkis

Gollum is my picture of Dorian Gray. He will be with me for the rest of life, and I will grow to look more like him as I get older.

Andy Serkis

I had a body wax. It's the most painful thing I have ever done in my life. I had every single hair on my body pulled out, and I really bruised.

Alana Stewart

People might have the impression I had an easy life, but it's been anything but that.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

I don't have interest in life. Life has an interest in me.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

To have hands, to have fingers, is weird. Real life is weird, to have fingers?

Penelope Cruz

I am someone who worries a lot. I'm always worrying 'what if?' Now I'm a mum - there will be worries for the rest of my life, but they're not about me anymore.

Peter Falk

My father's whole life was work. He had a retail store in Ossining, New York, and I mean, he was down there at 6:15 every morning. The store didn't open until 9, but he hadda be down there. That's all he knew.

Peter Abrahams

Perhaps life had a meaning that transcended race and colour. If it had, I could not find it in South Africa.

There is only one Jesus; we can't live a sinless life like He did.

Polly Bergen

It suddenly struck me - I'm 70 years old. I wonder if I could possibly end my life the way I started it: doing the most joyful thing I ever did, which is to sing.

Jane Birkin

When you start recognising that you're having fun, life can be delightful.

Donald Trump

I've been dealing with politicians all my life. All my life. And I've always gotten them to do what I need them to do.

Bill Cosby

Things from real life are the things that get people laughing.

Blaise Pascal

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Anatole France

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

Andy Warhol

People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal.

Angelina Jolie

In my father's generation, the product was 80 percent of what you were putting into the world, and your personal life was 20 percent. It now seems that 80 percent of the product I put out is silly, made-up stories and what I'm wearing.

Annette Bening

Having a life outside of movies is like pure oxygen. It makes the work more precious and informed.