Famous quotes from thinkers, revolutionaries and influencers of our era.
There are eight million stories in the naked city. This has been one of them.
Our furniture goes back to louis the fourteenth - unless of course we pay him before then.
Please-baby-please-baby-please-baby-baby - baby. Please !
Let thy words be few.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Be Here Now.
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
Hey, lady !
In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject so worthy of my attention.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Teachers have three loves, love of learning, love of learners, and the love of bringing the first two loves together.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
Joy is not in things, it is in us.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
The first duty of love is to listen.
I'm an excellent driver.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Your voice makes me tremble inside and your smile is an invitation for my imagination to go wild.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere.
Every man dies. Not every man truly lives.
We are all born for love, it is the principle existence and it's only end.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Love in its essence is spiritual fire.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
The doctor should be opaque to his patients, and like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Live life with passion.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Ideas... they have the power
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity can not survive.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
May you live all the days of your life.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
I want the fairy tale.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.