FAMOUS QUOTES & SAYINGS

Friendship after the flesh is very easily destroyed on some slight pretext, since it is not held firm by spiritual perception. But when a person is spiritually awakened, even if ... (Diadochos of Photiki)

Don't let our outside labels or how fervent we look or zealous we are or how righteous we seem; that's not how you measure yourself against other people. Everyone is ... (Mitch Albom)

Know you that Allah has made Islam the most sublime path for attainment of His supreme pleasure and the highest standards of his worship and obedience. He has favoured it ... (Ali ibn Abi Talib)

If you want a different life, you gotta start doing and learning different things. ... (Jane Kenyon)

I Am Primate I was once taught, that I am a soul in a body. I once believed I was separate from the earth. A stranger in a strange land, ... (Christopher Zzenn Loren)

One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to perform in it. Is it irresistible charm? Chutzpah? ... (Robert Gottlieb)

There are some things I like about L.A. You can have a really healthy lifestyle, and I love running with the dogs on the beach. It's just the social scene ... (Mischa Barton)

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought. ... (William Butler Yeats)

So how big were his teeth? Are we talking big bad wolf?" "Did you read The Beano when you were a kid?" "Yeah, once or twice." "Picture Dennis the Menace's ... (Fabian Black)

Music definitely gave me a focus. I was an artist without an outlet. Let's just say if I was not famous, I could have been infamous. I could've had my ... (CeeLo Green)

Don Juan, in the teacings of Carlos Castaneda, makes the same point. You have to fool people into seeking knowlege. People will not do it of their own volition. ... (Frederick Lenz)

I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that ... (Tony Goldwyn)

That night it did not rain as much in the sky as it did in his heart. ... (Faraaz Kazi)

Things own you. That's the trouble with capitalism. Things own you. With communism and fascism - ideas own you. One idea and you can't have any other. ... (Frank Capra)

Ideally I envision a future where people are supporting themselves and each other using the things we already have - perhaps a place where one can fully support oneself with ... (Mary Mattingly)

I do believe that clean air, clean water, and wild mountains and old forests are our birthrights; that a wild and healthy landscape is, or should be, a constitutional right, ... (Rick Bass)

I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened ... (Roger McGuinn)

I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, ... (Lin Yutang)

There is no cell culture for depression. You can't see it on a bone scan or an x-ray. Not everyone with depression will show the same behavioral symptoms. ... (Chris Prentiss)

It has often been said that the more unusual the murder the easier it is to solve, but this is a theory I don't believe. Nothing is easy, nothing is ... (Peter Ackroyd)

Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals. ... (Dmitri Mendeleev)

The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. ... (William Sloane Coffin Jr.)

Wind and solar power are land-intensive, a green sin, but not energy-dense, and affordable only when heavily subsidized. And wind power must be supplemented with hydrocarbons for reliability. ... (Mark McKinnon)

Time has a different meaning for me, and these events that seem so monumental in the moment will one day be nothing more than a line in a scroll. These ... (Jessica Khoury)

Then he saw that in gun-colored ink on the inside of her left arm, she bore the recent history, in five digits, of her life, her family, and the world. ... (Michael Chabon)

I think acting is something that came natural. ... (Rene Russo)

Storytelling still matters in the digital age, because commencing in adolescences and continuing through adulthood, people receive training in using stories to describe the human contestants, organize the facts, communicate ... (Kilroy J. Oldster)

It's nothing short of a whole new brain ... animated by a different form of thinking and a new approach to life. ... (Daniel H. Pink)

I have a problem with that silver medal. It's like, 'Congratulation s, you almost won. Of all the losers, you're the number one loser. No one lost ahead of you.' ... (Jerry Seinfeld)

Loving others is easy when you love and accept yourself. ... (Louise Hay)