Quotes:There is something about the literary
life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap gaudiness of popular success.
View quotes by Raymond ChandlerWe trained hard - but it seemed every time we were beginning to form up
into teams we were reorganised. I was to learn later in
life that we tend
to meet any new situation by reorganising, and what a wonderful method it
can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing
confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation.
View quotes by Petronius ArbiterHe who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy
life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign.
View quotes by Victor HugoIn taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very
life, 'until death doth part.'
View quotes by Emma GoldmanMan is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in
life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
View quotes by Joseph AddisonI wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end.
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
View quotes by Gilda RadnerWhen all is done and said, in the end thus shall you find,
He most of all doth bathe in bliss that hath a quiet mind;
And, clearfrom worldly cares, to deem can be content
The sweetest time in all his
life in thinking to be spent. (The Pleasures of Thinking 1576)
View quotes by Lord VauxThere is grandeur in this view of
life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
View quotes by Charles DarwinI don't think we've been influenced massively by our success and by our travels. The lyrics [singer Chris Martin] writes are more basic than that, more basic, emotional ideas rather than
life experiences. There's probably a few lines in there which reflect what's happened in the last year or so, but it's hard to say
View quotes by Guy BerrymanHe's given a
lifetime of service to the party. Without his contribution - among others - we wouldn't have had three terms of government.
I know he has been damaged by events in his personal
life - those are, in my view, private matters and should remain so.
He should be judged by his contribution. [on John 'Two Jags' Prescott]
View quotes by Des Browne'What else should our lives be but a continual series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of consciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become, except in dreams that blow in from out there bearing the fragrance of islands we have not yet sighted in our waking hours...' (David Malouf, An Imaginary
Life, p.135)
View quotes by David MaloufOur people receive the news of his death with a deep sense of grief and loss.
He was a holy champion of the Filipino family and of profound Christian values that make everyone of us contemplate... what is just, moral and sacred in
life.
[on Pope John Paul II]
View quotes by Gloria ArroyoWhen you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new
life.
View quotes by Christopher MorleyThe few really great - the major novelists... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of
life (The Great Tradition)
View quotes by F R LeavisI really think happiness is very closely aligned with success, and may almost be an interchangeable synonym. Happiness (like success) also comes from doing what we feel called to do in
life; however, it's also obvious no one can experience one without the other.
View quotes by Donna FargoAll stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about
life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.
View quotes by David CronenbergAs you walk down the fairway of
life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. [Don't forget to smell the roses, to paraphrase another famous quote]
View quotes by Ben HoganAlthough the dream is a very strange phenomenon and an inexplicable mystery, far more inexplicable is the mystery and aspect our minds confer on certain objects and aspects of
life.
View quotes by Giorgio De ChiricoThe fact that
life evolved out of nearly nothing, some 10 billion years after the universe evolved out of literally nothing, is a fact so staggering that I would be mad to attempt words to do it justice
View quotes by Richard DawkinsRemember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy
life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
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