Diem Quotes
To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.
Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.
To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.
Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.
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.
Survival is not possible if the best of us lack all conviction, while the worst of us are full of passionate intensity.
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.
What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?
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.
Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.
We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.
Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero. Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.
If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you. Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it? Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary.
If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.
Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.
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.
The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.
Most people die at the last minute; others twenty years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of the earth.
Law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
I say if it's going to be done, let's do it. Let's not put it in the hands of fate. Let's not put it in the hands of someone who doesn't know me. I know me best. Then take a breath and go ahead.
It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.
Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.
The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.
I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.
