Carpe Diem Quotes - Page 3

Ideas shape the course of history.

Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.

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

Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

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.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness, and what is your relation to the ever-changing and turning world.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

The possible's slow fuse is lit by the Imagination.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

I'm fairly certain that YOLO is just Carpe Diem for stupid people.

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.

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.

To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.

History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.

Throughout history, the arts and humanities have helped men and women around the globe grapple with the most challenging questions and come to know the most basic truths. In our increasingly interconnected world, the arts play an important role in both shaping the character that defines us and reminding us of our shared humanity. This month, we celebrate our Nation's arts and humanities, and we recommit to ensuring all Americans can access and experience them.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.

Art is fundamental, unique to each of us...Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.

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.