Carpe Quotes

We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you

When the human being sings he lends expression to the great wise ways in which the world was made.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

I have died so little today, friend, forgive me.

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without apathy, without pretence.

Time! where didst thou those years inter Which I have seene decease?

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.

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

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'.

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Seize the day, take hold of it, and make it whatever you want.

The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrecoverable.

Never find your delight in another's misfortune.

The problem with putting off things you've always wanted to do is that eventually you run out of always.

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.

An idea is a feat of association.

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.

Do something instead of killing time. Because time is killing you.

The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?

Your happy songs bring to me the scent of Heaven. Please keep singing!

I bought a pair of Carpe Diem boots, which were completely unnecessary and hideously expensive, but they make me feel quite fine and dandy.

Mr. Keating: Carpe Diem! Sieze the day!

How you choose to respond each moment to the movie of life determines how you see the next frame, and the next, and eventually how you feel when the movie ends.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

At least I carpe'd that one diem.

It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.

So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister’s Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. What’s wrong with me?

What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.

I totally carpe-d the snot out of this diem!

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

It's finished. Everything went past, without me.

There is much coldness among men because we do not dare to be as cordial as we really are.

Carpe Jugulum," read Agnes aloud. "That's... well, Carpe Diem is 'Sieze the Day,' so this means-" "Go for the throat

You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.

We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.

I say, carpe the chaos, for in chaos is opportunity.

Seize today and put as little trust as you can in tomorrow.

Seize the day [Carpe diem]: trust not to the morrow.

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.

Find what it is you love to do and do it well. Make the world a better place.

Carpe Dium, I say. Seize the day. Grab it by the throat and rattle its bollocks

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.

I live with carpe diem engraved on my heart.

When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and only then will we have a chance.

It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.

History is a bucket of ashes.

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.