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/