Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eugene O'Neill

One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

Hasidic Proverb

While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.

Alan Watts

For unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax. There is no point whatever in making plans for a future which you will never be able to enjoy. When your plans mature, you will still be living for some other future beyond. You will never, never be able to sit back with full contentment and say, "Now, I've arrived!" Your entire education has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.

Alan Bennett

I'm not "happy" but I'm not unhappy about it.

Benjamin Franklin

Contentment makes a poor person rich and discontent makes a rich person poor.

Bob Iger

Digital piracy needs to be addressed. Without content protection, investment in content can't be supported. We need secure distribution. If you (telecommunications equipment and software makers) help us, we will make it easier for you to distribute our content.

Bill Gothard

Contentment is realizing that God has already provided everything we need for our present happiness.

Bette Midler

Total contentment is only for cows.

Socrates

I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

Paul Kantner

When we toured... I was hungry to take out people like Jeff Beck in front of us; Fleetwood Mac, just before they hit; Heart, just before they hit.

Caroline Corr

When I was drumming with Mick Fleetwood I thought I looked half mad. I thought I looked half crazy.

Tamsin Greig

I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.

Lane Olinghouse

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.

Gilbert Hernandez

I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.

S. Walker

We have a fleet of earthmoving and related equipment.

Paulo Coelho

Déjà vu is more than just that fleeting moment of surprise, instantly forgotten because we never bother with things that make no sense. It show that time doesn't pass. It's a leap into something we have already experienced and that is being repeated.

Marianne Wiggins

There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.

Aubrey O'Day

Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting.

George Washington

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.

Carrie Snow

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

Nicki Minaj

My happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

Paula Cole

I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be.

Simon Cowell

I am quite miserable because I'm never satisfied with what I've got. You're always looking for that next high, and that is what I would define as happiness.

Taissa Farmiga

'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Happiness is the legal-tender of the soul. Joy is wealth.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Marianne Williamson

For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book.

Hussein Chalayan

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

Bill Simon

I really just want to pursue other avenues, ... I got a lot accomplished in my tenure here and I wanted to try new things.

Thomas Middleditch

I'm undeniably very nerdy, but I'm trying to recognize and pursue more masculine pursuits.

Kerri Strug

I think it's just really important for youth today to have a passion and pursue something seriously.

Dan Stephens

We'll aggressively pursue ... (the lawsuit) as was planned.

John Hume

That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing.

George Washington

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

America Ferrera

There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option.