Life Quotes

Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes.

William Shakespeare

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

William G.T. Shedd

As the essence of courage is to stake one's life on a possibility, so the essence of faith is to believe the possibility exists.

William Salter

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

Will Self

It was woman that taught me cruelty, and on woman therefore I have exercised it.

Walter Scott

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it, and it kills in many instances because its anguish can no longer be borne.

William Styron

I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.

William Saroyan

But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever.

William Saroyan

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

William Shakespeare

I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.

W.G. Sebald

On Major Depression, quoted by the great William Styron of Sophie's Choice & Darkness Visible: From Darkness Visible, William Styron "It is a positive and active anguish, a sort of psychical neuralgia, wholly unknown to normal life.

William Styron

...and I came to the conclusion that in any project we design and develop, the size and degree of complexity of the information and control systems inscribed in it are the crucial factors, so that the all-embracing and absolute perfection of the conc...

W.G. Sebald

Are you up to your destiny?

William Shakespeare

Difficulty is only a matter of the willingness to do.

Winston Samuels

What we are is not all that we may become.

William Shakespeare

When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows

William Shakespeare

Our doubts are traitors, and make us loose the good that we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

Anyone who wants to join the GLEE CLUB, gets to join.

Will Shuster

We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.

Walter Scott

Daring to make a difference in today's youth-one page at a time

william sawyers

LEAR: ...yet you see how this world goes. GLOS.: I see it feelingly.

William Shakespeare