Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable.

Alfred North Whitehead

The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.

Adam Weishaupt

For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.

Branch Rickey

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

David Riesman

It is among the less privileged groups relatively new to leisure and consumption that the zest for possessions retains something of its pristine energy.

Jhonen Vasquez

Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death

Felix Adler

It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy by obliterating every trace of the fear of death from our minds. Then can we turn to life and fill the whole horizon of our souls with it, turn with added zest toall the serious tasks which it imposes and to the pure delights which here and there it affords.

Laurence Olivier

Life is enthusiasm, zest.

Henry Van Dyke

I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest, because the road's last turn will be the best.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Living is being born slowly. It would be a little too easy if we could borrow ready-made souls.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls.

Becca Fitzpatrick

He was abominable...and the most alluring, tortured soul I'd ever met.

Becca Fitzpatrick

I would lay down everything I possess, even my soul, for you. If that isn't love, it's the best I have.

Barry Lopez

The gaze of the wolf reached into our soul.

B. R. Ambedkar

Neither god nor soul can save society.

Bijou Phillips

Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it.

Bhagat Singh

The spirit of Revolution should always permeate the soul of humanity, so that the reactionary forces may not accumulate to check its eternal onward march

C. S. Lewis

What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations.

Nina Daniels

People just have to have an open mind and a better understanding of the sport. People don't really understand it, and how it works.

Gitte Lindgaard

People make up their mind very, very quickly about how much they like what they see.

Jon Gruden

Some of those runs you will never forget. And you may never see them again. Those are the one where you say 'Oh, my God! Oh, my God!' They are runs etched in your mind forever.

Chris Martin

Some people are into bondage... and some people are into crossdressing... and some people are into Coldplay. It's okay, I don't mind being a fetish.

Allan Ray

That comes with experience. We've been through this. We know we can come back if we put our mind to it.

B. R. Ambedkar

Freedom of mind is the proof of one's existence

B. R. Ambedkar

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

B. F. Skinner

A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.

Bhumibol Adulyadej

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.