Carpe Diem famous quotes
07-12-2025
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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 -
If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.
-- Drew Barrymore -
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
-- Edgar Allan Poe -
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
-- Edmund Burke -
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
-- Edmund Burke -
The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.
-- Emily Dickinson -
Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the 'Titanic' who waved off the dessert cart.
-- Erma Bombeck -
Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet.
-- Ernest Hemingway -
Music gives us a language that cuts across the disciplines, helps us to see connections and brings a more coherent meaning to our world.
-- Ernest L. Boyer -
Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration... what we need in education is a learning climate in which students work together. In such an atmosphere, truth emerges as authentic insights are conscientiously exchanged.
-- Ernest L. Boyer -
Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in the minds of those who built them. Society is where it is today because people had the perception; the images and the imagination; the creativity that the Arts provide, to make the world the place we live in today.
-- Eugene S. Ferguson -
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
-- Evan Esar -
Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald -
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave/O're the land of the free and the home of the brave.
-- Francis Scott Key -
The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.
-- Frank Barron -
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt -
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt -
It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.
-- George Harrison -
Music education opens doors that help children pass from school into the world around them - a world of work, culture, intellectual activity, and human involvement. The future of our nation depends on providing our children with a complete education that includes music.
-- Gerald R. Ford -
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton -
In playing ball, and in life, a person occasionally gets the opportunity to do something great. When that time comes, only two things matter: being prepared to seize the moment and having the courage to take your best swing.
-- Hank Aaron -
I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dripped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity.
-- Hazel Ying Lee -
The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.
-- Herbie Hancock -
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
-- Hilaire Belloc -
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero'Snatch at today and trust as little as you can in tomorrow' - (Odes) Often translated as 'Seize the day'.
-- Horace -
Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.
-- Horace -
I'm fairly certain that YOLO is just Carpe Diem for stupid people.
-- Jack Black -
Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
-- Jean Anouilh -
History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.
-- Jean Bodin -
I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form.
-- Joan Crawford -
Nothing is worth more than this day.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.
-- John Armstrong -
Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.
-- John Cage -
One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations.
-- John Coltrane -
My most fundamental hope is for a worldwide attitude of tolerance, which will only come through education and an awareness of other cultures and religions. The more people are exposed to other philosophies and thoughts, the more possible it becomes to resolve world conflicts peacefully. Education builds tolerance for other points of view.
-- John Hendricks -
It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.
-- John R. Platt -
Survival is not possible if the best of us lack all conviction, while the worst of us are full of passionate intensity.
-- John Silber -
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.
-- Jonathan Swift -
Find what it is you love to do and do it well. Make the world a better place.
-- Keter Betts -
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.
-- Lewis Carroll -
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith -
The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrevocable.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.
-- Louis-Ferdinand Celine -
Art is a nation's most precious heritage. For it is in our works of art that we reveal to ourselves and to others the inner vision which guides us as a nation. And where there is no vision, the people perish.
-- Lyndon B. Johnson -
If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.
-- Lyndon B. Johnson -
I live with carpe diem engraved on my heart.
-- M. F. K. Fisher -
We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
-- Margaret Mead -
Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.
-- Maria Shriver -
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
-- Mark Twain -
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
-- Mark Twain -
We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.
-- Mark Twain -
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
-- Mark Twain -
There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.
-- Mark Van Doren -
Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.
-- Martin Luther -
The human race is governed by its imagination.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte -
Why always "not yet"? Do flowers in spring say "not yet"?Â
-- Norman Douglas -
Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.
-- Norman Podhoretz -
All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?
-- Og Mandino -
When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
-- Omar Khayyam -
What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?
-- Pablo Neruda -
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
-- Pablo Picasso -
Never find your delight in another's misfortune.
-- Publilius Syrus -
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
-- Rabindranath Tagore -
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
