10 Commencement Speech Quotes & Sayings

I feel bad for these preachers man, they're on their jets doing all of that stuff because there's a lot of people living hell on earth. — Ryan Montgomery

An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise. — Evan Esar

Real good luck would be to abandon life without ever encountering dishonesty, or hypocrisy, or self-indulgence, or pride. But the "next best voyage" is to die when you've had enough. Or are you determined to lie down with evil? Hasn't experience even taught you that - to avoid it like the plague? Because it is a plague - a mental cancer - worse than anything caused by tainted air or an unhealthy climate. Diseases like that can only threaten your life; this one attacks your humanity. — Marcus Aurelius

You're not going to win by automatically going out there. It's hard to know what people really expect of you, and I've never tried to live up to expectations anyway. That's no way to play baseball. — Greg Maddux

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines
it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits. — Robin Sloan

The newest Ferrari of them all, the 458, the Italia. The GT3 was good, but nowhen near as good as this ... almost nothing on Earth is as good as this ... Set that something I've just told, involving Cameron Diaz ... and some honey ... then it comes that even that isn't as good as this. — Jeremy Clarkson

We are born into this world with a life-long hunger for food ...
We are born into this world with a life-long hunger for love ... — Jose N. Harris

Most of those who have written about the Affects, and men's way of living, seem to treat, not of natural things, which follow the common laws of nature, but of things that are outside nature. Indeed they seem to conceive man in nature as a dominion within a dominion. For they believe that man disturbs, rather than follows, the order of nature, that he has absolute power over his actions, and that he is determined only by himself. — Baruch Spinoza

In every trial Let understanding fight for you. — Gautama Buddha

Because if no one really cares for you at all, do you even exist? — Cassandra Clare

It's a chore sometimes, isn't it? Wake up. Prepare food. Eat. Every day is just something checked off the long 'to do' list until we die, — Zoe Perdita

What if she never remembers?"
"Then you better make her fall in love with you, again."
"How did I do it the first time?"
"You let her in. — Abbi Glines