Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Pasteur

Every chemical substance, whether natural or artificial, falls into one of two major categories, according to the spatial characteristic of its form. The distinction is between those substances that have a plane of symmetry and those that do not. The former belong to the mineral, the latter to the living world.

Louis Pasteur

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Lope de Vega

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.

Lord Chesterfield

Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Lord Chesterfield

I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

Lord Chesterfield

Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.

Lord Byron

Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life, and if Virtue is not its own reward, I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.

Lord Byron

As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?

Jim Valvano

I just got one last thing, I urge all of you, all of you, to enjoy your life, the precious moments you have. To spend each day with some laughter and some thought, to get you're emotions going.

John Connolly

If 'why' was the first and last question, then because I was curious to see what would happen was the first and last answer. A version of it had been spoken to God Himself in the Garden of Eden, and it was destined to be the reason for the end of things at the hands of man.

John Cleese

If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'

John Buchan

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

John Barrymore

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.

M. Russell Ballard

It is almost impossible for children and youth to find their way through the seas of life without the guiding light of a good example.

M. Russell Ballard

We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude.

M. Scott Peck

Most do not fully see this truth that life is difficult. Instead they moan more or less incessantly, noisily or subtly, about the enormity of their problems, their burdens, and their difficulties as if life were generally easy, as if life should be easy. They voice their belief, noisily or subtly, that their difficulties represent a unique kind of affliction that should not be and that has somehow been especially visited upon them, or else upon their families, their tribe, their class, their nation, their race or even their species, and not upon others.

M. Scott Peck

Some Catholics have a concept I very much admire: the Sacrament of the Present Moment. It suggests that every moment of our lives is sacred, and that we should make of each moment a sacrament. Were we to do this we would think of the entire world as diffused with holiness. Wherever we might be would be a holy place for us, and we would see the holy, even sainthood, in everyone we encounter.

M. Scott Peck

Life is difficult. This is the great truth, one of the greatest truths-it is a great truth because once we see this truth, we transcend it.

M. Scott Peck

The giving up of personality traits, well-established patterns of behavior, ideologies, and even whole life styles...these are major forms of giving up that are required if one is to travel very far on the journey of life.

M. Scott Peck

We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.

M. Scott Peck

It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually.

M. Scott Peck

Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers, and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex.

M. Scott Peck

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

John Cena

There are moments in life where it gets so hectic that time becomes a blur. Keep calm and never give up.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.

John Boyne

The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of the cupboard.

John Boehner

In this time of challenge, I am asking the prime minister to address Congress on the grave threats radical Islam and Iran pose to our security and way of life.

You know, life is long. My shooting career is long.

Darin Erstad

You could see right then that he had it back. There was still a lot of life in him.

Cilla Black

You couldn't give me any more confidence than when I was on T.V. because I was in control, but I wasn't in control in my private life.

Craig Venter

You can't have life without the genetic code.

You can win a national championship, but you'll remember for the rest of your life that you didn't get one of these.

Andrea Riseborough

You can't tell what's going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.