Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jason Messer

Other than the motivational stuff, at this point, there's not much we can do.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Bede Jarrett

If we are going to do anything significant with life, we sometimes have to move away from it- beyond the usual measurements. We must occasionally follow visions and dreams.

B. R. Ambedkar

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Bill Shoemaker

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.

Bill Cosby

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

C. S. Lewis

You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. Good people know about both bad and evil; bad people do not know about either.

C. S. Lewis

Every time you make a choice, you are turning the central part of you - the part that chooses - into something a little different than what it was before. Taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature.

C. S. Lewis

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Ann Brashares

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

Bram Stoker

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

Daniel Handler

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.

J. D. Salinger

I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.

Jack Kerouac

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

Jeffrey Eugenides

You never get over it, but you get to where it doesn't bother you so much.

Ernest Hemingway

You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.

Giacomo Casanova

Be the flame, not the moth.

John Green

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

Basil Bunting

All you can usually say about a poem or a picture is, 'Look at it, listen to it.' Whether you listen to a piece of music or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.

David Neeleman

You don’t have to spend a jillion dollars on advertising to get your word out. What matters is that customers have a good experience with your product at every single point of contact.

Bruce Willis

It doesn't matter how many people I've killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive.

A. N. Wilson

As Hitler himself later enunciated, it matters not how idiotic the creed, what matters is the firmness with which it is enunciated.

Alessandra Ambrosio

As long as you're feeling good with your weight and the way you look, that's what matters.

Orson Scott Card

Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.

Orson Scott Card

Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone.

David Ben-Gurion

What matters is not what the goyim say, but what the Jews do.

Daisaku Ikeda

What matters is the value we’ve created in our lives, the people we’ve made happy and how much we’ve grown as people.