Martin Svoboda favourite quotes (page 18)

“When life gives you lemons, make lemonade”

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

Variant: When fate hands you lemons, make lemonade.

“I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine then be a size zero.”

Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress

“The way we see the problem is the problem.”

Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker

“Youth is wasted on the young.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

“Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.”

Unknown author

“People are strange, they neither wish to live nor die.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Variant: you are so brave & quiet i forget you are suffering.

“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“Those who spend too fast never grow rich.”

Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer

Qui dépense trop n’est jamais riche.
La Maison du Chat-qui-pelote http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Maison_du_chat-qui-pelote [At the Sign of the Cat and Racket] (1830), translated by Clara Bell

“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

Ian Fleming book You Only Live Twice

Source: You Only Live Twice (1964), Ch. 21 : Orbit. Fleming is quoting Jack London directly.

“I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.”

Michel Foucault (1926–1984) French philosopher

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

“Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

Variant: A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 112.

“I like the wind because you can’t buy it.”

Gianni Agnelli (1921–2003) Italian businessman

Gianni Agnelli quotes http://hespokestyle.com/mens-style-advice/gianni-agnelli-quotes/ hespokestyle.com

“Only the educated are free.”

Epictetus (50–138) philosopher from Ancient Greece

Discourses
Variant: ...none ought to be educated but the free;...
Book II, ch. 1.

“Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

As quoted in In factor of the sensitive man, and other essays (1976 edition) by Anais Nin, p.14
Attributed from posthumous publications

“Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Brown Daily Herald (24 March 1995)
Variant: Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.
Source: Fahrenheit 451

“Be yourself. The world worships the original.”

Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, The Trumpet of Conscience (1967)
Variant: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

“No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist