July 29, 2012

Ayn Rand: Envy is...

Envy is the only name she could find for the monstrous thing she faced, but it was much worse than envy: it was the profound hatred of life, of success and of all human values, felt by a certain kind of mediocrity...the kind who feels pleasure on hearing about a stranger's misfortune. It was hatred of the good for being the good...hatred of ability, of beauty, of honesty, of earnestness, of achievement and, above all, of human joy.
/Ayn Rand/

Dan Quayle: ...I pledge...

...I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.
/Dan Quayle/

July 28, 2012

Al Franken: Mistakes are...

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
/Al Franken/

Sai Baba: The life...

The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
/Sai Baba/

July 25, 2012

Emma Goldman: Free love?...

Free love? As if love is anything but free! Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love. High on a throne, with all the splendor and pomp his gold can command, man is yet poor and desolate, if love passes him by. And if it stays, the poorest hovel is radiant with warmth, with life and color. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king. Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.
/Emma Goldman/

July 19, 2012

Robert Wagner: A dog...

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.
/Robert Wagner/

Salman Rushdie: Free speech...

Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
/Salman Rushdie/

July 17, 2012

Jessi Lane Adams: Skipping subtracts...

Skipping subtracts years from your heart, adds joy to your life, multiplies your happiness, and divides your stress. It's a prime exercise, and I count it among one of my greatest blessings.
/Jessi Lane Adams/

Jean Giraudoux: The flower...

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
/Jean Giraudoux/

July 15, 2012

Arthur Ashe: If I...

If I were to say, God, why me? about the bad things, then I should have said, God, why me? about the good things that happened in my life.
/Arthur Ashe/

July 14, 2012

Matthew Henry: I thank...

I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.
/Matthew Henry/

July 12, 2012

Lee Drake: A bad...

A bad grade is only one letter in the Essay of life.
/Lee Drake/

Barack Obama: When we...

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
/Barack Obama/

July 11, 2012

Ani Difranco: Maybe you...

Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.
/Ani Difranco/

July 10, 2012

George Santayana: Life is...

Life is neither a spectacle nor a feast, it is predicament.
/George Santayana/

July 07, 2012

Donald A. Hansen: The effort...

The effort to remold, in one's own life, the culture one has grown into is heavy with danger. The searcher is likely to be treated as a criminal or a madman, condemned and criticized by his own society, ridiculed, even persecuted. Even if he is more fortunate--even if he is simply ignored by others--he must begin his struggle as a cripple. For to consciously reject the generalized attitudes' of the parent society is to reject positive reference points that have helped him evaluate his actions and accomplishments.This is the price of freedom on the peripheries. We are able to free ourselves from our parent culture only by destroying parts of ourselves, much as an animal might escape the hunter's trap by gnawing off its own leg. But unlike the wounded animal, the detached person is doubly crippled; however he mutilates himself, he will never quite be free of the trap but will carry it with him in his new freedom.
/Donald A. Hansen/

July 06, 2012

Edna Ferber: Wasn't marriage,...

Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt.
/Edna Ferber/

July 05, 2012

Sarah Zettel: Now, Venus...

Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.
/Sarah Zettel/

Alfred North Whitehead: It is...

It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in civilisation are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur: like unto an arrow in the hand of a child. The art of free society consists first in the maintenance of the symbolic code; and secondly in fearlessness of revision, to secure that the code serves those purposes which satisfy an enlightened reason. Those societies which cannot combine reverence to their symbols with freedom of revision, must ultimately decay either from anarchy, or from the slow atrophy of a life stifled by useless shadows.
/Alfred North Whitehead/

July 04, 2012

Alain de Botton: In the...

In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn't worry about death. If you have had a successful life, Lucretius tell us, there's no reason to mind its end. And, if you haven't had a good time, "Why do you seek to add more years, which would also pass but ill?"
/Alain de Botton/

Mahatma Gandhi: Constant development...

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
/Mahatma Gandhi/

July 03, 2012

Jennifer Saunders: There were...

There were a lot of areas we didn't cover that I'm hoping to cover if we do some specials. One is to see more of Patsy's home and her home life, which is just the saddest thing.
/Jennifer Saunders/

July 02, 2012

Alexander Hamilton: Safety from...

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.
/Alexander Hamilton/

Eric Hoffer: All mass...

All mass movements generate in their adherents a readiness to die and a proclivity for united action; all of them, irrespective of the doctrine they preach and the program they project, breed fanaticism, enthusiasm, fervent hope, hatred and intolerance; all of them are capable of releasing a powerful flow of activity in certain departments of life; all of them demand blind faith and singlehearted allegiance.
/Eric Hoffer/

Pearl S. Buck: Life without...

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
/Pearl S. Buck/

July 01, 2012

Jerome K. Jerome: It is...

It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions. After eggs and bacon it says, Work! After beefsteak and porter, it says, Sleep! After a cup of tea (two spoonfuls for each cup, and don't let it stand for more than three minutes), it says to the brain, Now rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature, and into life: spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!
/Jerome K. Jerome/

June 30, 2012

George Gordon Byron: Death, so...

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, and yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
/George Gordon Byron/

Cole Younger: I am...

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.
/Cole Younger/

June 29, 2012

W. Edward Brown: The artist...

The artist has one function--to affirm and glorify life.
/W. Edward Brown/

June 28, 2012

Ogden Nash: Certainly there...

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying then without money?
/Ogden Nash/

Adrienne Rich: Life on...

Life on the planet is born of woman.
/Adrienne Rich/

Miguel De Unamuno: Life is...

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
/Miguel De Unamuno/

June 26, 2012

Denis Waitley: The winners...

The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
/Denis Waitley/

Milovan Djilas: Normal life...

Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.
/Milovan Djilas/

Stephen Leacock: But the...

But the deep background that lies behind and beyond what we call humor is revealed only to the few who, by instinct or by effort, have given thought to it. The world's humor, in its best and greatest sense, is perhaps the highest product of our civilization. Its basis lies in the deeper contrasts offered by life itself: the strange incongruity between our aspiration and our achievement, the eager and fretful anxieties of today that fade into nothingness tomorrow, the burning pain and the sharp sorrow that are softened in the gentle retrospect of time, till as we look back upon the course that has been traversed, we pass in view the panorama of our lives, as people in old age may recall, with mingled tears and smiles, the angry quarrels of their childhood. And here, in its larger aspect, humor is blended with pathos till the two are one, and represent, as they have in every age, the mingled heritage of tears and laughter that is our lot on earth.
/Stephen Leacock/

O. Henry: Life is...

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
/O. Henry/

Nick Lampson: We were...

We were also able to do a great deal of work to improve highways, airports and airways, waterways, and railways, all of which are important and have provided a better quality of life and economic development opportunities for my constituents.
/Nick Lampson/

Frederick Sanger: It was...

It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him.
/Frederick Sanger/

Stefan Kanfer: Sorrows cannot...

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.
/Stefan Kanfer/

June 25, 2012

Paul A. Volcker: What's the...

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.
/Paul A. Volcker/

June 24, 2012

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Where was...

Where was it I read about a man who's been sentenced to die, saying or thinking, the hour before his death, that even if he had to live somewhere high up on a rock, and in such a tiny area that he could only stand on it, with all around precipices, an ocean, an endless murk, endless solitude and endless storms--and had to stand there, on those two feet of space, all his life, for a thousand years, eternity--that it would be better to live like that,than to die so very soon! If only he could live, live, and live! Never mind what that life was like! As long as he could live!...What truth there is in that! Lord, what truth!
/Fyodor Dostoyevsky/

June 23, 2012

Neale Donald Walsch: I think...

I think in metaphysical terms, I would call that increasing the speed of the vibration of life.
/Neale Donald Walsch/

Chico Hamilton: I'm quite...

I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind.
/Chico Hamilton/

June 22, 2012

Anna Neagle: But if...

But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!
/Anna Neagle/

Hesiod: Acquisition means...

Acquisition means life to miserable mortals.
/Hesiod/

Jimmy Sangster: One can...

One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.
/Jimmy Sangster/

June 21, 2012

Herman Melville: The sailor...

The sailor is frankness, the landsman is finesse. Life is not a game with the sailor, demanding the long head - no intricate game of chess where few moves are made in straight-forwardness and ends are attained by indirection, an oblique, tedious, barren game hardly worth that poor candle burnt out in playing it.
/Herman Melville/

June 20, 2012

Augustinas Rakauskas: Breaking free...

Breaking free from extremely limited capacities of the present-day physical body and having gotten rid of the limits, a man may embark on a journey to a new knowledge, which is being born in his or her dreams. Nobody and nothing can stop such a man for he or she, having tasted freedom, has touched upon the capacities lying within a man. He or she has understood that life is a permanent creation of perfecting his or her soul through the world matter. It is only in this process that a man is implementing the plan of God – to be a man created after His image. This is the main aim, essence and cause of living - to permanently study how to create the new.
/Augustinas Rakauskas/

Lynn Redgrave: He had...

He had Parkinson's disease for about, I'd say diagnosed for about 11 of the last years of his life. And treatment was not as good as it is now, of course. We're still going along and he died in '85 and he was 77.
/Lynn Redgrave/

Burt Ward: You know,...

You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.
/Burt Ward/

June 19, 2012

Paul Gauguin: Life being...

Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
/Paul Gauguin/

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe: What is...

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.
/Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe/

June 17, 2012

Oscar Wilde: How pleasant...

How pleasant it was in the garden! And how delightful other people's emotions were! - much more delightful than their ideas, it seemed to him. One's own soul, and the passions of one's friends - those were the fascinating things in life. He pictured to himself with silent amusement the tedious luncheon that he had missed by staying so long with Basil Hallward. Had be gone to his aunt's, he would have been sure to have met Lord Goodbody there, and the whole conversation would have been about the feeding of the poor and the necessity for model lodging-houses. Each class would have preached the importance of those virtues, for whose exercise there was no necessity in their own lives. The rich would have spoken on the value of thrift, and the idle grown eloquent over the dignity of labour. It was charming to have escaped all that!
/Oscar Wilde/

June 16, 2012

Ralph Ransom: All life...

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
/Ralph Ransom/

Mitsugi Saotome: If you...

If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to, no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch, what would be your purpose in life? It is other life, it is love, which gives your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the joy of challenge, the joy of growth.
/Mitsugi Saotome/

June 15, 2012

Larry Brown: You have...

You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.
/Larry Brown/

Sara Teasdale: There's nothing...

There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.
/Sara Teasdale/

June 14, 2012

Wieder Marcia: Use your...

Use your precious moments to live life fully every single second of every single day.
/Wieder Marcia/

June 13, 2012

Arthur Rubinstein: Love life...

Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.
/Arthur Rubinstein/

June 12, 2012

Peter Ustinov: Books, I...

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
/Peter Ustinov/

June 10, 2012

Antonio Porchia: Following straight...

Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life.
/Antonio Porchia/

June 09, 2012

Flannery O'Connor: To expect...

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
/Flannery O'Connor/

June 08, 2012

Allan K. Chalmers: Crises refine...

Crises refine life. In them you discover what you are.
/Allan K. Chalmers/

June 07, 2012

Derek Jacobi: They were...

They were totally supportive, always saw everything I did. One of the thrills of my life was when they went to the theater to see something that I wasn't in. It opened doors for them that otherwise would have been totally closed.
/Derek Jacobi/

Mignon McLaughlin: In life,...

In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.
/Mignon McLaughlin/

June 05, 2012

Tina Yothers: I've been...

I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt.
/Tina Yothers/

Robert Louis Stevenson: There is...

There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
/Robert Louis Stevenson/

June 01, 2012

Rosa Luxemburg: Without general...

Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.
/Rosa Luxemburg/

May 30, 2012

George Eliot: I think...

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
/George Eliot/

May 29, 2012

Harry Mahtar: A gold...

A gold watch is the most appropriate gift for retirement, as its recipients have given up so many of their golden hours in a lifetime of service.
/Harry Mahtar/

May 26, 2012

Oscar Holmolka: To really...

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must first have experienced the things they are better than.
/Oscar Holmolka/

May 25, 2012

Clarence Darrow: None meet...

None meet life honestly and few heroically.
/Clarence Darrow/

Denis Waitley: That which...

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
/Denis Waitley/

May 23, 2012

George Bernard Shaw: I am...

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live.
/George Bernard Shaw/

Ted Simon: There are...

There are in me the seeds from which, if necessary, the universe could be constructed. In me somewhere there is a matrix for mankind and a holograph for the whole world. Nothing is more important in my life than trying to discover these secrets.
/Ted Simon/

Miles Davis: I'm always...

I'm always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
/Miles Davis/

May 22, 2012

Jay Inslee: But most...

But most importantly, we can all be donors. It does not matter how old you are, your race, where you live; all of us can give the gift of life.
/Jay Inslee/

May 21, 2012

Walter Cronkite: I can't...

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
/Walter Cronkite/

May 16, 2012

Thomas Jefferson: The happiest...

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
/Thomas Jefferson/

May 15, 2012

Buckminster Fuller: Never forget...

Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.
/Buckminster Fuller/

Charles M. Crowe: Easter is...

Easter is the demonstration of God that life is essentially spiritual and timeless.
/Charles M. Crowe/

Anthony Robbins: The quality...

The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.
/Anthony Robbins/

May 14, 2012

E. B. White: You have...

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
/E. B. White/

May 13, 2012

Anna Quindlen: Life is...

Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.
/Anna Quindlen/

Lucy Maud Montgomery: There is...

There is a great solitude about such a shore. The woods are never solitary- they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. We can never pierce its infinite mystery- we may only wander, awed and spell-bound, on the outer fringe of it. The woods call to us with a hundred voices, but the sea has one only- a mighty voice that drowns our souls in its majestic music. The woods are human, but the sea is of the company of the archangels.
/Lucy Maud Montgomery/

Marcia Wieder: You can...

You can come to understand your purpose in life by slowing down and feeling your heart's desires.
/Marcia Wieder/

May 11, 2012

Henry Lytton Bulwer: There are...

There are two things in life that a sage must preserve at every sacrifice, the coats of his stomach and the enamel of his teeth. Some evils admit of consolations, but there are no comforters for dyspepsia and the toothache.
/Henry Lytton Bulwer/

May 10, 2012

Albert Einstein: The devil...

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
/Albert Einstein/

May 09, 2012

Brennan Manning: The dominant...

The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust-not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God.
/Brennan Manning/

May 08, 2012

Sholom Aleichem: Life is...

Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.
/Sholom Aleichem/

May 04, 2012

George Bernard Shaw: There are...

There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
/George Bernard Shaw/

Usher Raymond: Breaking up...

Breaking up is a natural evolution when you try to figure out what you want in life. If you're with an individual who isn't moving in the same direction and at the same rate that you are, it ain't going to work.
/Usher Raymond/

May 03, 2012

Samuel Johnson: When men...

When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
/Samuel Johnson/

Lawrence Kasdan: But, I...

But, I think that the reason I responded to this book, sort of paradoxically, is that it starts out like The Big Chill, sort of. Four friends, who are not quite happy with their life, and every year they get together for a week and look for some comfort from each other.
/Lawrence Kasdan/

May 02, 2012

Ogden Nash: I would...

I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
/Ogden Nash/

May 01, 2012

Tom Dreesen: When I...

When I was growing up, my mom wanted me to become a priest, which I think is a tough occupation. Can you imagine giving up your sex life and then once a week people come in to tell you all the highlights of theirs?
/Tom Dreesen/

April 29, 2012

Henry Miller: The aim...

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
/Henry Miller/

April 28, 2012

Burt Ward: On our...

On our show, I must tell you, it was... the 60s was a period of time when everything was free love. People made love to each other. It was a very open life, you know?
/Burt Ward/

April 27, 2012

Mary Oliver: One day...

One day you finally knew<br>the only life you could save.
/Mary Oliver/

April 25, 2012

John Ruskin: Whether for...

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.
/John Ruskin/

Bette Davis: To fulfill...

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
/Bette Davis/

Katharine Whitehorn: I cannot...

I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.
/Katharine Whitehorn/

April 24, 2012

Albert Einstein: Everybody is...

Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.
/Albert Einstein/

April 23, 2012

Mahatma Gandhi: My life...

My life is my message.
/Mahatma Gandhi/

Larisa Oleynik: I've had...

I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
/Larisa Oleynik/

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: ...from the...

...from the time of Kepler to that of Newton, and from Newton to Hartley, not only all
things in external nature, but the subtlest mysteries of life and organization, and even
of the intellect and moral being, were conjured within the magic circle of mathematical
formulae.
/Samuel Taylor Coleridge/

George Bernard Shaw: Everything I...

Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
/George Bernard Shaw/

Marc Jacobs: I wouldn't...

I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it.
/Marc Jacobs/

April 19, 2012

Joseph Jackson: All I...

All I know is, he's a good kid, and he's done right all his life. And he always treats other people right.
/Joseph Jackson/

April 17, 2012

David Ogilvy: The relationship...

The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.
/David Ogilvy/

April 16, 2012

Joseph Addison: The important...

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
/Joseph Addison/

Lev Tolstoy: The changes...

The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience ... not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.
/Lev Tolstoy/

April 14, 2012

Edward Abbey: There is...

There is a certain satifaction in living a life in complete and total failure.
/Edward Abbey/

Richard M. Daley: My dad...

My dad came out of the Roosevelt era and the Depression. One person and one party made a difference in his life. That's what everybody forgot when they called my father and other people political bosses.
/Richard M. Daley/

Bessie Stanley: He has...

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.
/Bessie Stanley/

April 13, 2012

Connie Mack: Humanity is...

Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is as true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life.
/Connie Mack/

William Faulkner: Clocks slay...

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
/William Faulkner/

April 12, 2012

April 11, 2012

Veronica Lake: I've reached...

I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.
/Veronica Lake/

Richard L. Evans: Don't let...

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
/Richard L. Evans/

Leo Buscaglia: Love is...

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
/Leo Buscaglia/

April 08, 2012

Havelock Ellis: Pain and...

Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
/Havelock Ellis/

April 06, 2012

Cicero: We think...

We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
/Cicero/

April 05, 2012

Graham Nash: If every...

If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.
/Graham Nash/

April 03, 2012

George Santayana: Progress, far...

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians.
/George Santayana/

April 02, 2012

W. H. Davies: What is...

What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
/W. H. Davies/

April 01, 2012

Joshua J. Marine: Challenges are...

Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
/Joshua J. Marine/

Brennan Manning: The greatest...

The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny him with their life style. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.
/Brennan Manning/

March 30, 2012

Theodore Roosevelt: We of...

We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted...So any nation which in its youth lives only for the day, reaps without sowing, and consumes without husbanding, must expect the penalty of the prodigal whose labor could with difficulty find him the bare means of life.
/Theodore Roosevelt/

March 28, 2012

George Earle Buckle: In practical...

In practical life the wisest and soundest people avoid speculation.
/George Earle Buckle/

March 27, 2012

Eugene O'Neill: I lay...

I lay on the bowsprit, with the water foaming into spume under me, the masts with every sail white in the moonlight towering above me. I became drunk with the beauty and singing rhythm of it, and for a moment lost myself- actually lost my life. I was set free... dissolved in the sea, became white sails and flying spray, became beauty and rhythm and the high dim-starred sky... I belonged within a unity and joy to life itself.
/Eugene O'Neill/

Alicia Machado: Every day...

Every day I am trying to improve my life.
/Alicia Machado/

March 26, 2012

Kiri Te Kanawa: We sing...

We sing these songs for the everyday occasions of life, and they are very close to the hearts of our people.
/Kiri Te Kanawa/

March 24, 2012

Anatole France: The average...

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
/Anatole France/

March 23, 2012

Dante G. Roque: Life is...

Life is a rough biography. Memories smooth out the edges.
/Dante G. Roque/

March 22, 2012

Terri Minsky: It's very...

It's very strange when the life you never had flashes before your eyes.
/Terri Minsky/

Frédéric Bastiat: Life, faculties,...

Life, faculties, production- in other words, individuality, liberty, property- this is man. And in spite of the cunning of artful political leaders, these three gifts from God precede all human legislation, and are superior to it. Life, liberty and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
/Frédéric Bastiat/

C. S. Lewis: He who...

He who takes his life for granted is a pencil without an eraser.
/C. S. Lewis/

Jean Paul: Art is...

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.
/Jean Paul/

Muhammed Iqbal: The ultimate...

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
/Muhammed Iqbal/

March 21, 2012

Benjamin Franklin: It is...

It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead: Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?
/Benjamin Franklin/

March 20, 2012

Ella Maillart: We must...

We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.
/Ella Maillart/

Mary Oliver: Listen, are...

Listen, are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?
/Mary Oliver/

March 19, 2012

Nancy Thayer: It's never...

It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
/Nancy Thayer/

March 17, 2012

Heraclitus: Life has...

Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death.
/Heraclitus/

March 16, 2012

March 13, 2012

Samuel Butler: Life is...

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
/Samuel Butler/

March 12, 2012

Harriet Ann Jacobs: But I...

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
/Harriet Ann Jacobs/

March 11, 2012

Mary Oliver: To live...

To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
/Mary Oliver/

Bernard Malamud: We have...

We have two lives - the one we learn with and the life we live after that.
/Bernard Malamud/

Zack Wamp: With freedom...

With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
/Zack Wamp/

March 09, 2012

Eric Hoffer: Passionate hatreds...

Passionate hatreds can give meaning and purpose to an empty life. These people haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunies for battle.
/Eric Hoffer/

March 07, 2012

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Everything which...

Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.
/Johann Wolfgang von Goethe/

March 06, 2012

Aldous Huxley: Human contacts...

Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.
/Aldous Huxley/

John Eaton: We need...

We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life.
/John Eaton/

Henry David Thoreau: If one...

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
/Henry David Thoreau/

Edward Abbey: Our suicidal...

Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too muchof their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudgingup mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life isthe next best thing to premature burial.
/Edward Abbey/

March 05, 2012

Robert Brault: How often...

How often in life we complete a task that was beyond the capability of the person we were when we started it.
/Robert Brault/

David R. Hawkins: All judgment...

All judgment reveals itself to be self-judgment in the end, and when this is understood a larger comprehension of the nature of life takes its place.
/David R. Hawkins/

Jorge Luis Borges: Life itself...

Life itself is a quotation.
/Jorge Luis Borges/

March 04, 2012

Giorgio de Chirico: Although the...

Although the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of life. Psychologically speaking, to discover something mysterious in objects is a symptom of cerebral abnormality related to certain kinds of insanity. I believe, however, that such abnormal moments can be found in everyone, and it is all the more fortunate when they occur in individuals with creative talent or with clairvoyant powers. Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.
/Giorgio de Chirico/

March 03, 2012

George Gribbon: A writer...

A writer should be a joyous optimist. Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong for a writer.
/George Gribbon/

Benjamin Mays: It must...

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. It lies in having no goal to reach. It is not a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace not to have any stars to reach. Not failure, but low aim, is the real sin.
/Benjamin Mays/

March 02, 2012

Mohamed ElBaradei: Challenging the...

Challenging the integrity of the non-proliferation regime is a matter which can affect international peace and security.
/Mohamed ElBaradei/

February 27, 2012

Brittany Daniel: If you've...

If you've been told all your life that you're good-looking, people just flock around you and you never really have to try or have to learn an interesting craft, skill or hobby - or even have depth.
/Brittany Daniel/

February 26, 2012

C. Astrid Weber: If your...

If your inner energy is misdirected, so will your whole life be.
/C. Astrid Weber/

David Mamet: We respond...

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.
/David Mamet/

February 24, 2012

February 22, 2012

George Sand: He who...

He who draws noble delights from sentiments of poetry is a true poet, though he has never written a line in all his life.
/George Sand/

T. S. Eliot: As things...

As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
/T. S. Eliot/

Jean-Paul Sartre: One is...

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
/Jean-Paul Sartre/

February 21, 2012

Harper Lee: The one...

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.
/Harper Lee/

February 19, 2012

Gioacchino Rossini: Eating, loving,...

Eating, loving, singing and digesting are, in truth, the four acts of the comic opera known as life, and they pass like bubbles of a bottle of champagne. Whoever lets them break without having enjoyed them is a complete fool.
/Gioacchino Rossini/

Henri Alain: Life on...

Life on a farm is a school of patience; you can't hurry the crops or make an ox in two days.
/Henri Alain/

February 18, 2012

Charles M. Schulz: That's the...

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another...
/Charles M. Schulz/

Henry David Thoreau: To be...

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts,nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to liveaccording to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence,magnanimity, and trust.
/Henry David Thoreau/

February 17, 2012

Patrick Henry: Is life...

Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
/Patrick Henry/

February 16, 2012

Isak Dinesen: Of all...

Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.
/Isak Dinesen/

John M. Thomas: You must...

You must regulate your life by the standards you admire when you are at your best.
/John M. Thomas/

February 15, 2012

Victor Garber: Being on...

Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.
/Victor Garber/

February 13, 2012

Jean Ingelow: A healthful...

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
/Jean Ingelow/

February 10, 2012

Thomas Mann: The only...

The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
/Thomas Mann/

February 09, 2012

Ralph Thomas Walker: May I...

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.
/Ralph Thomas Walker/

February 08, 2012

Edward Young: Friendship's the...

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
/Edward Young/

February 07, 2012

Erykah Badu: Oh, yeah,...

Oh, yeah, I see the world differently now. Actually, when I first had the baby, I was breast-feeding him for two years straight. So we were together for two years of his life, every single day, all hours of the day. So I was two people, and I eventually morphed back into one.
/Erykah Badu/

February 06, 2012

Cherralea Morgen: Life is...

Life is life, and death is life, and everything in between.
/Cherralea Morgen/

February 05, 2012

John Wooden Legs: Our land...

Our land is everything to us... I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it - with their life.
/John Wooden Legs/

February 02, 2012

Edward Gorey: Life is...

Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring.
/Edward Gorey/

February 01, 2012

José Ortega y Gasset: Abasement, degradation...

Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be.
/José Ortega y Gasset/

January 30, 2012

V. S. Naipaul: Argentine political...

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
/V. S. Naipaul/

January 29, 2012

Leon Kass: Is it...

Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
/Leon Kass/

January 26, 2012

Rod Taylor: The most...

The most important thing in my life is my work.
/Rod Taylor/

January 25, 2012

Gilda Radner: I wanted...

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way that some poems dont rhyme, and some stories dont have a clear begining middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the most of it without knowing whats going to happen next.
/Gilda Radner/

January 22, 2012

Stephen Leacock: Humor may...

Humor may be defined as the kindly contemplation of the incongruities of life, and the artistic expression thereof.
/Stephen Leacock/

Meir Kahane: Every man...

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.
/Meir Kahane/

January 21, 2012

Alan Ladd: I'm the...

I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last.
/Alan Ladd/

January 19, 2012

Timothy Fuller: Life is...

Life is just a series of trying to make up your mind.
/Timothy Fuller/

Douglas Adams: He hoped...

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
/Douglas Adams/

Ralph Waldo Emerson: What I...

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great person is one who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
/Ralph Waldo Emerson/

Frank Sinatra: I would...

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.
/Frank Sinatra/

January 16, 2012

Theodore Roosevelt: It is...

It is well that you should celebrate your Arbor Day thoughtfully, for within your lifetime the nation's need of trees will become serious. We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted.
/Theodore Roosevelt/

Robert Herrick: The person...

The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
/Robert Herrick/

Audra Foveo-Alba: Star Trek...

Star Trek fans usually know the metaphors of life better than most mainstream poets.
/Audra Foveo-Alba/

January 14, 2012

Smiley Blanton: Love is...

Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.
/Smiley Blanton/

January 12, 2012

Charles Stuart Calverley: But ah!...

But ah! disasters have their use;<BR>And life might e'en be too sun-shiny.
/Charles Stuart Calverley/

January 11, 2012

Robert Louis Stevenson: What do...

What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility ... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
/Robert Louis Stevenson/

January 10, 2012

Zinedine Zidane: I was...

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.
/Zinedine Zidane/

January 09, 2012

Joseph Campbell: He said...

He said myths and mythology wasn't to give meaning to life but to give us an experience of life, an experience of vitality in being alive.
/Joseph Campbell/

January 08, 2012

January 06, 2012

Mel Brooks: Look, I...

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
/Mel Brooks/

January 05, 2012

Maya Angelou: Life loves...

Life loves the liver of it.
/Maya Angelou/

Elbert Hubbard: Do not...

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
/Elbert Hubbard/

Hedy Lamarr: Jack Kennedy...

Jack Kennedy always said to me, Hedy, get involved. That's the secret of life. Try everything. Join everything. Meet everybody.
/Hedy Lamarr/

January 03, 2012

David Shakarian: I never...

I never worked a day in my life. It's not work when you love what you're doing.
/David Shakarian/

George Tooker: Painting is...

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
/George Tooker/

Ludwig van Beethoven: What will...

What will be the judgment a century hence concerning the lorded works of our favorite composers today? Inasmuch as nearly everything is subject to the changes of time, and - more's the pity- the fashions of time, only that which is good and true will endure like a rock and no wanton hand will ever venture to defile it. Then, let every man do that which is right, strive with all his might towards the goal which can never be obtained, develop to the last breath the gifts with which the gracious Creator has endowed him, and never cease to learn. For life is short, art eternal.
/Ludwig van Beethoven/

January 02, 2012

George Edward Woodberry: To feel...

To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problems of contentment.
/George Edward Woodberry/

David Zucker: I believe...

I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would be very depressing. I'd prefer to believe there is.
/David Zucker/

January 01, 2012

Rachel Carson: Those who...

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
/Rachel Carson/