Quotes and Sayings About Carpe Diem
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Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.
-- Alan Cumming -
How can we turn our back on an endeavor which increases our children's cultural intelligence, heightens individual sensitivity and deepens our collective sense of humanity? I suggest to you that we cannot.
-- Alec Baldwin -
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
-- Alexis Carrel -
It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing all the time. It's the greatest secret of the world.
-- Andrea Barrett -
Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run
-- Andrew Marvell -
I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.
-- Andrew McMahon -
If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.
-- Apuleius -
The arts significantly boost student achievement, reduce discipline problems, and increase the odds students will go on to graduate from college. As First Lady Michelle Obama sums up, both she and the President believe 'strongly that arts education is essential for building innovative thinkers who will be our nation's leaders for tomorrow.'
-- Arne Duncan -
Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.
-- Art Buchwald -
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
-- Arthur Koestler -
The arts are not a frill. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature, and help to shape our identity. What is there that can transcend deep difference and stubborn divisions? The arts. They have a wonderful universality. Art has the potential to unify. It can speak in many languages without a translator. The arts do not discriminate. The arts lift us up.
-- Barbara Jordan -
The arts, instead of quaking along the periphery of our policy concerns, must push boldly into the core of policy. The arts are a response to our individuality and our nature and help to shape our identity. The arts are not a frill and should not be treated as such. They have the potential to become the driving force for healing division and divisiveness.
-- Barbara Jordan -
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
-- Bernard Berenson -
Look for the good in every person and every situation. You'll almost always find it.
-- Brian Tracy -
I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.
-- Brittany Murphy -
Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.
-- Calvin Coolidge -
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
-- Carl Sandburg -
When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.
-- Charles Evans Hughes -
Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
-- Charles Mingus -
Remember there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible
-- Cherie Carter-Scott -
If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.
-- Christian Morgenstern -
History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.
-- Clarence Darrow -
To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.
-- Corita Kent -
In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.
-- Corita Kent -
I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.
-- Dave Eggers -
We must realize that we have a choice. We are responsible for our own good time... When you do something you are proud of, dwell on it a little, praise yourself for it, relish the experience, take it in.
-- David Berkowitz -
Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?
-- David Brin -
My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around
-- Dr. Seuss