Quotes by Categories Quotes with SOMETIMES Category You have to stand for what you believe in and sometimes you have to stand alone. Queen Latifah stand-alone sometimes believe While we are examining into everything we sometimes find truth where we least expected it. Quintilian examining expected sometimes Sometimes we behave and perform with our lives, not for God, but for an audience. R. C. Sproul behave audience sometimes That's the thing with suicide pacts. Sometimes they only really work if they catch you by surprise. R. K. Milholland surprise suicide sometimes Sometimes you don't have to mean to hurt someone to hurt someone. R. J. Palacio hurt sometimes mean Sometimes silence can seem so loud. R. Kelly loud silence sometimes Quotes with SYMPATHY Category Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart. A. A. Milne baby sympathy relationship I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed. A. C. Benson views sympathy thinking I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them. A. N. Wilson doubters christian sympathy In the end, for congenial sympathy, for poetry, for work, for original feeling and expression, for perfect companionship with one's friends--give me the country. D. H. Lawrence friends sympathy country Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature. Dalai Lama education sympathy inspirational Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions have become involved since I spoke at Limerick fortnight ago. Eamon de Valera sympathy war people Quotes with BABY Category I seen a baby cry seconds later he laughs... the beauty of life, the pain never lasts. J. Cole pain baby laughing They have no consciousness therefore. Therefore what? Therefore we are free to use them for our own ends? Therefore we are free to kill them? Why? What is so special about the form of consciousness we recognize that makes killing a bearer of it a crime while killing an animal goes unpunished?...all this discussion of consciousness and whether animals have it is just a smokescreen. At bottom we protect our own kind. Thumbs up to human babies, thumbs down to veal calves. J. M. Coetzee thumbs-down animal baby Whoa," Brit breathed, handing my drink back to me. "That was..." "Really hot," Jacob finished. "I thought you two were going to rip off each other's clothes and start making babies right here on the dirty, beer covered floor. Like I was going to have to start charging admission for what was about to go down. J. Lynn rip baby dirty The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation. J. I. Packer christmas baby children Babies cannot eat meat but some adults like milk. J. Vernon McGee adults meat baby Franny has the measles, for one thing. Incidentally, did you hear her last week? She went on at beautiful length about how she used to fly all around the apartment when she was four and no one was home. The new announcer is worse than Grant - if possible, even worse than Sullivan in the old days. He said she surely dreamt that she was able to fly. The baby stood her ground like an angel. She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs. J. D. Salinger home beautiful baby Quotes with ADVENTURE Category Here's a near-future space adventure that's as frightening as it is smart. Jeremy Robinson's BENEATH is packed with believable tech, a page-turning story and an alien intelligence so creepy, you'll pray NASA never makes it past the moon. J. C. Hutchins smart adventure past 'Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope' (1977) is probably the most influential film of my generation. That work was the personification of good and evil and the way it opened up the world to space adventure, the way westerns had to our parents' generations, it left an indelible imprint. So, in a way, everything that any of us does is somehow directly or indirectly affected by the experience of seeing those first three films. J. J. Abrams stars adventure war I had grown accustomed to life being interesting and adventure ridden and, rather childishly, I refused to believe that this must necessarily come to an end and that the rest of my life should be a sort of penance for all the reckless, irresponsible, and immensely fun things I’d done before. J. Maarten Troost fun adventure believe The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. J. R. R. Tolkien adventure lying hands We have reached one of the great stages in the adventure of thought … We are required to see the universe with new eyes, and it is because it makes such demands and also holds out the promise of realizing them, that the study of science is so supremely worth while. J. W. N. Sullivan eye adventure promise The biggest rewards in life are found outside your comfort zone. Live with it. Fear and risk are prerequisites if you want to enjoy a life of success and adventure. Jack Canfield risk comfort adventure Quotes with PIGLET Category How the little piglets would grunt if they knew how the old boar suffered. Ragnar Lodbrok last-words littles piglet Quotes with HAPPINESS Category The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind. A. E. Housman mind joy happiness If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered. A. Edward Newton happiness love life If Allah has written for you happiness, no one can steal that from you, and if He has written for your heart to break, then no-one can mend it but He, so always put your trust in Allah. Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni trust faith happiness Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want. If God gave you the talent, you should go for it. But don't think it's going to be easy. It's hard! Aaliyah success inspiring happiness Happiness is normally the prime search of every rational human being. One way to derive increasing happiness during the year we have just entered is to strive diligently to promote the happiness of others, to think of them first, yourself second. Happiness is the greatest tonic, the greatest elixir, of all. Worry is among the worst poisons. One sensible New Year resolution: I will do my utmost to have consideration for others, to exercise usefulness, to radiate happiness, to conquer worrying over things I cannot possibly remedy. B. C. Forbes new-year exercise happiness Happiness is a continuous creative activity. Baba Amte activity creative happiness Quotes with BEING HAPPY Category Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude. Dale Carnegie being-happy happiness inspirational Money never prevented anyone from being happy or unhappy. Eddie Barclay unhappiness unhappy being-happy If you have health, you probably will be happy, and if you have health and happiness, you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want. Elbert Hubbard motivational being-happy inspirational At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you. Elizabeth Gilbert beautiful-life letting-go being-happy I get way too much happiness from good food. Elizabeth Olsen food being-happy happiness If I never saw another airport again, I'd be happy! Emm Gryner airports cynical being-happy Quotes with RETIREMENT Category The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change. J. G. Ballard significant-change retirement mean Age doesn't matter, unless you are cheese. J. Paul Getty teaching teacher retirement It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. Jackie Mason health age retirement Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid. Jacob Hacker hard-work retirement believe I wanted to start a proper academy and recruit juniors from all over Pakistan following my retirement after the World Open in 1993 but there was no support. Jahangir Khan pakistan support retirement The secret to a successful retirement is to find your retirement sweet spot. The sweet spot is where your passions, what you do best, and what people will pay you to do overlap. James C. Collins passion sweet retirement Quotes with FAVORITE DAY Category Sunday is my favorite day. Emma Caulfield my-favorite sunday favorite-day Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are. Joyce Giraud blessed blessing favorite-day Sunday's my favorite day - that one matinee in the middle of the day! Kelli O'Hara my-favorite sunday favorite-day Halloween is one of my favorite days of the year. I have a strict rule: I don't work on Halloween and I won't travel on Halloween. Not for any reason. Simon Sinek halloween favorite-day years My favorite day at 30 Rock is Thursday, when the show airs. At lunch we screen the episodes. For everyone to watch together, to see the stuff we all worked on, to hear the crew laugh - it’s great fun. Tina Fey rocks fun favorite-day Quotes with MOVIE LOVE Category Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville. Edgar Bergen church movie-love television I love movies that have that resonating scare, that really get under your skin and make you think. Eli Roth make-you-think movie-love thinking I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They give me comfort. Jake Gyllenhaal movie-love giving people I personally just love movies about the creative process. James Franco creative process movie-love I'm a huge television fan, in general. I love TV. I love movies. I always have. It's what I do, and I love it. Jamie Clayton fans movie-love television I love movies and I like a lot of good television. At the end of the project, I don't care if they changed [it from the book], I just want to look at it and go, "I loved that. That really turned out well." James Patterson movie-love book looks Quotes with TODAY Category Today, there is no excuse for any one of us to sit back and go, "Ugh! There's nothing I can do about it."Because there is always something that can be done. Queen Noor of Jordan ugh done today We look at problems happening halfway across the world and we think, 'Well, that's their problem.' But it's not. ... When you solve somebody else's problem, you're solving a problem for yourself because our world today is so interconnected. Queen Rania of Jordan our-world today thinking I do count on a changing of tides. All too often, what could be a critics' darling today becomes tomorrow's target. I don't want to be too blasé about it. Questlove today Take your love and your pleasure as you find it. Do not worry so much of the future that you let today pass you by. you are happy. need you know more than that? R. A. Salvatore worry today needs Only the free-wheeling artist-explorer, non-academic, scientist-philosopher, mechanic, economist-poet who has never waited for patron-starting and accrediting of his co-ordinate capabilities holds the prime initiative today. R. Buckminster Fuller philosopher artist today Few books today are forgivable. R. D. Laing today book Quotes with I MISS YOU Category Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell. Edna St. Vincent Millay broken-heart missing-you i-miss-you Absence makes the heart grow fonder Eleanor Roosevelt missing-you i-miss-you romantic I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples. Emily Giffin missing-someone couple i-miss-you It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs. Eric Hoffer sad missing-you i-miss-you I only miss you when I'm breathing. Jason Derulo missing-someone missing-you i-miss-you When you miss me just look up to the night sky and remember, I'm like a star; sometimes you can't see me, but I'm always there. Jayde Nicole valentines-day missing-you i-miss-you Quotes with INTEGRITY Category It's a good feeling to have something to stand for in any part of your life. It's like personal integrity. A-Trak feelings integrity For whatever reason, the success still blows my mind - that I'm able to talk to people about the music I've written. I always felt like there was something there because you don't put out music unless you have a sense that people will maybe like what you're doing or you're standing for something artistically. I don't mess with that. It's more about just music and trying to keep the integrity, I guess. Aaron Bruno blow integrity people Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history. A.C. Grayling real integrity life In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of your own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give you a humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of people, or the iniquity of the times may rob you of other rewards. Babe Paley disappointment humble integrity Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life. Baker Brownell pressure spiritual integrity A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity. Baltasar Gracian truth integrity lying Quotes with BEAUTY Category Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. Rachel Carson strength nature beauty Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love Rabindranath Tagore eye beauty reality As Ralph's character begins to discover the political thriller aspect of the film, he falls deeper in love with his wife, so the two run together. That's the beauty of this film. It has fast pace and excitement, but it also has heart and soul. Rachel Weisz running beauty fall I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual. Rafael Palmeiro individual beauty sports Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. Rainer Maria Rilke beauty love life If your inner being changes, your whole outer life will be totally different. It will have a different fragrance, a different beauty, a different grace. And when your inner being is changed and becomes a flame of light, you will become a light unto others too. You will become a beckoning light, a great herald of a new dawn. Your very presence will trigger revolutions in other people's lives. Rajneesh light beauty life Quotes with WIND Category Dim loneliness came imperceivably into the fields and he turned back. The birds piped oddly; some wind was caressing the higher foliage, turning it all one way, the way home. Telegraph poles ahead looked like half-used pencils; the small cross on the steeple glittered with a sharp and shapely permanence. A. E. Coppard loneliness home wind Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves. A. S. J. Tessimond shadow cat wind Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost. A.S.A. Harrison autumn wind long I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it. Bai Ling goal blow wind It is only natural that people's wishes and aspirations should be realized by the leaders of the region. As this wind of change blows, it is up to the leaders to seize this opportunity to look for the better future for their own people through bold reforms before it is too late, before the people are forced to take action. Ban Ki-moon blow opportunity wind Chilled-looking people walking along the riverside, the snow beginning, faintly, to pile up on the roofs of cars, the bare trees shaking their heads left and right, dry leaves tossing in the wind. The silver of the metal window sash sparkling coldly. Soon after, I heard sensei call, "Mikage! Are you awake? It's snowing, look! It's snowing!" "I'm coming!" I called out, standing up. I got dressed to begin another day. Over and over, we begin again. Banana Yoshimoto snow wind people Quotes with BIRD Category Spotted Park Bench J. Patrick Lewis benches ordinary bird God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves. J. G. Holland bird giving mean Everything was curved to fit the walls: the stove, the sink and the cupboards, and all of it had been painted with flowers, insects and birds in bright primary colours. J. K. Rowling wall flower bird I rarely find motive in bird vomit. Jack Hodgins motive bird Hempseed produces no observable high for humans or birds. Jack Herer produce humans bird I became an ifrit to save the lives of my fellow jinn. What kind of life saver would I be if I let you sit here and wither away in paradise? Just an obstacle. Just an obstacle. I meet the ifrit's eyes. What happened to all your talk about birds and fish having nowhere to live? The ifrit shrugs. I suggest you start holding your breath, my friend, he says, then pushes through the hearing room doors. Jackson Pearce eye doors bird Quotes with PREGNANCY Category There's no doubt that on the issue of abortion, oftentimes it's very difficult to split the difference, although we can agree on the notion that none of us are pro-abortion and all of us would like to see a reduction in unwanted pregnancies, for example, and we could focus on those issues. Barack Obama issues differences pregnancy Life is always rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch. E. B. White motherhood waiting pregnancy If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton wish pregnancy love Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things. Edward Kennedy dad pregnancy history Social ills: teenage pregnancy, gangs, children with behavioral problems. All these things can be alleviated if kids got more physical activity for starters. Edwin Moses teenage pregnancy children Pregnancy and motherhood are the most beautiful and significantly life-altering events that I have ever experienced. Elisabeth Hasselbeck motherhood beautiful pregnancy Quotes with GRADUATION Category No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. J. Robert Oppenheimer education graduation inspirational The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind. Jacques Barzun exercise education graduation I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do. Parker Stevenson graduation inspirational funny All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since. Patina Miller graduation inspirational funny Spread joy. Chase your wildest dreams. Patch Adams success graduation happiness For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families. Patrick J. Kennedy graduation inspirational funny Quotes with HONEY Category Don't worry honey, I'm too mean to die. Jack Dempsey worry honey mean Eleven on a scale of ten, honey, let me introduce you to my redneck friend. Jackson Browne redneck introducing honey Are you wet for me, Mary? I think you are. I think you're covered with honey. J.R. Ward mary honey thinking Having women work with men is like having a grizzly bear work with salmon . . . dipped in honey. Patrice O'Neal grizzly-bears honey men If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride. Patricia Clarkson gravy train honey To be both rich and handsome was bad enough. But to have a voice like honey over warm bread on top of that was simply inexcusable. Patrick Rothfuss handsome voice honey Quotes with POT Category Everything comes to me while I'm sitting on the pot. Eddie Van Halen sitting pot Your pot laws are great! But your gun laws are even better! Eddie Vedder gun law pot Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words. Edith Wharton wish pot thinking As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot. Elon Musk heat planets pot Genres aren't that relevant. Nearly every form of music is a melting pot of things of things. Jacob Bannon melting form pot I've never tried pot; I've never tried anything. Janet Jackson pot «1234567891011»
