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.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.

You know how to paint a room real fast Just put paint rollers on your feet and somehow figure out how to skate up the walls and across the ceiling.

We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.

We may have civilized bodies and yet barbarous souls. We are blind to the real sights of this world; deaf to its voice; and dead to its death. And not till we know, that one grief outweighs ten thousand joys will we become what Christianity is striving to make us.

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time.

The evil men do lives after them, the good is often interred with their bones.

There is simply no dignified way for a woman to live alone. Oh, she can get along financially perhaps (though not nearly as well as a man), but emotionally she is never left in peace. Her friends, her family, her fellow workers never let her forget that her husbandlessness, her childlessness -- her selfishness, in short -- is a reproach to the American way of life.

Life, like all other games, becomes fun when one realizes that it's just a game.

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work. A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine. No more busy work. No more hiding from success. Leave time, leave space, to grow. Now. Now! Not tomorrow!

The men who are great live with that which is substantial, they do not stay with that which is superficial they abide with realities, they remain not with what is showy. The one they discard, the other they hold.

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it wants a library catalogued, or the solar system discovered, or any trifle of that kind, it uses up its specialists. But when it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I remember right, by the Founder of Christianity.

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

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die.

If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at some guys, throw one of those little baby-type pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think of how crazy war is, and while they're thinking, you can throw a real grenade.

It's funny that pirates were always going around searching for treasure, and they never realized that the real treasure was the fond memories they were creating.

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dream shall never die.

...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall.

I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conlusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleages, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

God is real, unless declared integer.

Live free or die.

I live for books.

Live with passion!

You only live once

Live the questions.

We live as we dream

Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

Coffee is my only REAL friend.

I have to act to live.

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.

To love a thing means wanting it to live.

We had a real happy 16-year-old girl.

Every instance of heartbreak can teach us powerful lessons about creating the kind of love we really want.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives. [In the movie Braveheart]

I'm happy to live here.

I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week...to remind me how fragile life is.

UFO's are for real: the Air Force doesn't exist.

People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life.