Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martha Beck

Self-improvement books, friends, and polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing, and solving our real problems.

Helen Gahagan

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

Michael Jackson

Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court.

Tom Nalen

Playing doesn't lie, you've got to go out there and get it done. And if you do, it doesn't matter how you got there, they'll find a place for you to play.

Phil Klay

People lie to themselves all the time about what they've been through and what it means - I'm no exception. But you write those lies down - lies that really matter to you and that are really painful to let go of because they've become a part of who you are - and they don't work.

Leo Tolstoy

Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.

Tom Bosley

My wife says that my tombstone will read, 'Here lies Mr.C, who used to be Mr.B.' So I think that's probably what I'll be remembered for.

Jemima Khan

WikiLeaks exposed the most dangerous lies of all, which are those that are told to us by elected governments.

Cesare Pavese

We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

Helen Gahagan

In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable.

Tom Nalen

Playing doesn't lie, you've got to go out there and get it done. And if you do, it doesn't matter how you got there, they'll find a place for you to play.

Ed Garland

His oath should have been, 'I Tony Harwood swear to lie, I say you should reject Tony Harwood 100 percent. Throw him out. He ain't worth nothing.

Mark Twain

I am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't.

Cassandra Gash

I don't know where the responsibility lies, but I know I've done everything I can do.

Jason Dourisseau

It's going to be tough on Wednesday, I'm not going to lie. But I think we'll be ready to go.

Alexander Haig

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.

John Hueston

This is a simple case. It's not about accounting. It's about lies.

Jeff Foster

There were several of them (lies), weren't there?

Yotam Ottolenghi

If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

William Shatner

At 40, I went to bed for three days. I thought my life is over.

Will Chase

'Story of My Life' was essentially a two-man musical play. In hindsight, I don't know if there was room for a two-man musical on Broadway.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Pulling away from your parents, that's the natural thing to do; that's how life progresses.

Henry David Thoreau

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Abraham Lincoln

I was born and have ever remained in the most humble walks of life.

Evel Knievel

There's just no stopping me. I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.

Evangeline Lilly

If you're going to tell stories about life, you have to include a woman in your story.

Emma Watson

I've never understood having crushes on people who you don't know in real life.

Alan Cohen

Keep memories of insult on a short leash, and memories of blessing on a long one.

Dona Stephens

Those memories are all I have. I don't have anything else.

William Shakespeare

Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear

Joanne Harris

All those moments, those memories. Everything that we are, compressed in just two or three kilos of paper — the weight of a human heart.

William Shakespeare

This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion.

William Shakespeare

Memory, the warder of the brain.

Alan Sugar

I've just got an exceptional memory, if I say so myself.

Charlotte Bronte

Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.

Charlotte Bronte

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

Wislawa Szymborska

You have to remember all the time that there is a comical side to everything.

Idries Shah

You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.

Tilda Swinton

till I was about 17. I can't remember why I stopped. I've tried (to suck my thumb) since, but it doesn't work anymore.

Mignon Waterman

You know, I don't remember when I didn't cook.

Ryan Madson

You know, I really don't remember what he said.

M. Wolfe

Those who do remember it (the past) will find new ways to screw up

Charlie Chaplin

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Charles Spurgeon

How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves

Charles Spurgeon

Unerring wisdom ordained your lot, and selected for you the safest and best condition. Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there. You are placed by God in the most suitable circumstances. Be content with such things as you have, since the Lord has ordered all things for your good.

Tim Williams

You know everything you need to know, but the richness is gone,

Austin Farrer

The notion of God is the notion of richness without accident

David Whyte

We speak continually of saving time, but time in its richness is most often lost to us when we are busy without relief.

Michael J. Fox

Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.

John Lawson

The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life.