The best Quotes and Sayings (Page 6)

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.

I am happy to bowl wherever my captain wants me to bowl. If he tells me to bowl upfront and be aggressive with the new ball, I am happy to do that.

On a good day, when you have a clear plan, you are able to execute whatever you wanted.

I plan and I back myself in whichever situation I'm bowling.

We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them.

While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river; only the landscape on either bank seems to change.

Most recently my battle has been against AIDS and the discrimination surrounding it.

AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

I believe I can even yet remember when I saw the stars for the first time.

Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

A lot of my time was spent searching, thinking and planning my life.

Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?

My name is Ryan White. I am sixteen years old. I have hemophilia, and I have AIDS.

I started growing up in a hurry and taking a lot of the philosophy I'd heard from church as a kid a lot more seriously - especially the Ten Commandments - and wondering how 'Thou shalt not kill' could be so absolutely ignored. It took me until I was in my 40s to write what I was thinking as a young soldier.

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

Whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that at least I meant well for my country.

He serves his party best who serves his country best.

Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.

I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

Whenever you hear a man prating about the Constitution, spot him as a traitor.

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

What is right and what is practicable are two different things.

The apparent ease of California life is an illusion, and those who believe the illusion real live here in only the most temporary way.

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

Late afternoon on the West Coast ends with the sky doing all its brilliant stuff.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

To start telling people that you're beautiful, or just feel beautiful, just start acting like you are the most beautiful woman in the world. And it really improves everything! Because your sort of psyche responds to it - like this is truthful!

I love drugs, but I hate hangovers, and the hatred of the hangover wins by a landslide every time.

I have always wanted a swimming pool and never had one.

No yoga. I can barely sit down.

Every day, I wanna work on being a better person, not just to others but to myself.

Everyone knows deep in their hearts that the drums are the coolest instrument, and that a band is only as good as its drummer. So I'm all for drum solos. I'm all for drummers hamming it up. I'm all for drummers standing up and kicking over the kit.

Discomfort is the way to go if you want to make something you feel is worthwhile.

Fereydun, that's my dad's name. My grandmother, my dad's mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn't his child, but he was still very supportive and said, 'Hey, this is a great name,' and so it stuck. So that's what she named him.

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

I can imagine no society which does not embody some method of arbitration.

The sense of historical continuity, and a feeling for philosophical rectitude cannot, however, be compromised.

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

We're going to fight racism not with racism, but we're going to fight with solidarity. We say we're not going to fight capitalism with black capitalism, but we're going to fight it with socialism.

You can jail a revolutionary, but you can't jail the revolution.

If you ever think about me, and you ain't gonna do no revolutionary act, forget about me. I don't want myself on your mind if you're not going to work for the people.