Famous Astounding Quotes & Sayings

Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you? — John C. Maxwell

Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship. — Soren Kierkegaard

Okay, so maybe he didn't sign it with a heart or an XOXO, but the man was going for coffee. Gotta love that. — Gemma Halliday

I absolutely am an environmentalist. I am probably more of an environmentalist than most people who live in the world, but I think that comes from my position in the world and that doesn't make me a better person. — Ian Bremmer

What we feel at prayer is God's business, not ours, and we must strive to be totally abandoned to the presence of 'consolation' or of boredom when we pray. A clear understanding that the value of our prayer does not depend upon how we feel is extremely important if we are to persevere in prayer. So many people feel that if their prayer is distracted it cannot be pleasing to God, and are therefore led to abandon their efforts precisely when fidelity is of the most importance. — Sheila Cassidy

I have nothing like a writing routine. I sometimes have trouble buckling down to write at home. — Rebecca Stead

It is easier to live life through someone else than to become complete yourself. — Betty Friedan

Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma. — Jack Kevorkian

When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint ... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption. — James Rosenquist

One of my prized possessions is a small wooden box with a special lock on it that is more than five hundred years old and works according to a secret code that my grandfather taught me. My grandfather learned it from his grandfather, and his grandfather learned it from his grandfather, and I would teach it to my grandchild if I thought that I would ever have a family of my own instead of living out the remainder of my days all alone in this world. — Lemony Snicket

Kant ate but once a day, and drank no beer. Of this liquor, (I mean the strong black beer,) he was, indeed, the most determined enemy. If ever a man died prematurely, Kant would say - 'He has been drinking beer, I presume. — Thomas De Quincey

Its not that I'm in love with myself, I'm just trying to pick up everyone else's slack. — Zach Braff

Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word.
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? — T. S. Eliot