Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.

Jealousy: that Dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces obstinacy, it sharpens the sense of alienation and strengthens the power of resistance.

The true courage of civilized nations is readiness for sacrifice in the service of the state, so that the individual counts as only one amongst many. The important thing here is not personal mettle but aligning oneself with the universal.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Alimony is the high cost of leaving.

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

When all think alike, no one thinks very much.

We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights.

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

Alimony -- the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

When the leader passes over all alike, not making a distinction, then the endeavors of those who are capable of exertion are entirely lost.

To be awake is to be alive.

Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart.

I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness.

God is not dead! He's alive and autographing bibles at Cody's

The one without dreams is the one without wings Muhammad Ali

By nature, men are nearly alike by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Just give Alice some pencils and she will stay busy for hours.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut [Animals] up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph... ''Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?''

We're happy to be alive,-Richard Branson

Do I look like a freaking bunny yet?;"Lisa R., while applying makeup for her role as the March Hare in Alice in Wonderland.

We killed 'em and ate 'em alive.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnessesbehind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Look alive. Here comes a buzzard.

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

Your fortune stateth: Alimony and bribes will engage a large share of your wealth.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

Alimony: the ransom the happy pay to the devil.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

When we are not sure, we are alive.

Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

Alice: Who would win in a fight, Yoda or the Emperor? Mike: Easy. Yoda, because he's gay.

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?

We are most alive when we're in love.

A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other.

The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.

The early twenties when we drank wood alcohol and every day in every way grew better and better, and there was a first abortive shortening of the skirts, and girls all looked alike in sweater dresses, and people you didn't want to know said ''Yes, we have no bananas,'' and it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were -- and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings any more.

We need not think alike to love alike.

It is impossible for a stranger traveling through the United States to tell from the appearance of the people or the country whether he is in Toledo, Ohio, or Portland, Oregon. Ninety million Americans cut their hair in the same way, eat each morning exactly the same breakfast, tie up the small girls curls with precisely the same kind of ribbon fashioned into bows exactly alike; and in every way all try to look and act as much like all the others as they can.

You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who have ever been alive.

Has not Nature proved, in giving us the strength necessary to submit them to our desires, that we have the right to do so?

I'm happy with the situation and I hope Alison is too,-Will Gregory