Famous Quotes & Sayings

Confucius

Don't be concerned about others not appreciating you. Be concerned about your not appreciating others.

Confucius

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

Confucius

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Confucius

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?

Confucius

When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

Ambrose Bierce

Admiration, n. Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.

Ambrose Bierce

The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.

Ambrose Bierce

Here's to woman! Would that we could fold into her arms without falling into her hands.

Ambrose Bierce

NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.

Ambrose Bierce

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.

Anthony Holden

Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.

Alicia Vikander

My agent in Sweden used to send off interview tapes but I decided to take it upon myself and come to London to visit casting directors which is when things first started taking off for me. I love Sweden but the industry out here is quite small so when I was given the chance to go internationally I took it.

Alicia Keys

If I didn't love it, I would not record it.

Alicia Keys

Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language.

Alice Walker

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Alice Walker

The more I wonder, the more I love.

Alice Walker

You must learn to love only that which cannot be stolen.

Alice Munro

She could not explain or quite understand that it wasn't altogether jealousy she felt, it was rage. And not because she couldn't shop like that or dress like that. It was because that was what girls were supposed to be like. That was what men - people, everybody - thought they should be like. Beautiful, treasured, spoiled, selfish, pea-brained. That was what a girl should be, to be fallen in love with. Then she would become a mother and she'd be all mushily devoted to her babies. Not selfish anymore, but just as pea-brained. Forever.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.

Alfred de Musset

I see that you believe in love such as the poets and romancers have represented... The poets represent love as the sculptors design beauty, as the musicians create melody; that is to say, endowed with an exquisite nervous organization, they gather up with discerning ardor the purest elements of life, the most beautiful lines of matter, and the most harmonious voices of nature.... To try to find in real life such love as this, eternal and absolute, is the same thing as to seek on the public squares such a woman as Venus or to expect nightingales to sing the symphonies of Beethoven.

Alfred de Musset

The only true language in the world is a kiss.

Alfred de Musset

Life is a sleep, love is a dream; and you have lived if you have loved.

Alfred de Musset

... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.

Alfre Woodard

When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love; it doesn't happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they're suddenly together.

Alfred Adler

There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.

Amy Tan

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Amy Tan

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

Anthony Burgess

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

Andy Rooney

Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time.

Andy Rooney

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.

Andy Stanley

Jesus healed people one at a time because God cares about individual people.

Andy Warhol

The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.

Andy Warhol

Love and sex can go together and sex and unlove can go together and love and unsex can go together. But personal love and personal sex is bad.