Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.Nathaniel Hawthorne
Quotes to Explore
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Life is about timing.
Carl Lewis -
My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
Hans Christian Andersen -
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
Harrison Ford -
Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
G. Gordon Liddy -
All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
M. C. Gainey
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We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.
Ian Anderson -
In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.
Jack Harbaugh -
Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
Faith Evans -
It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
Vera Farmiga -
I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
Oksana Baiul -
I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think.
Bat for Lashes
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Where there is love there is life.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.
Randi Weingarten -
Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
Baz Luhrmann -
I've had an angel on my shoulder all my life.
Barbara Hale
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I believe that bad taste is vulgar. It's like cursing. I think the world can be saved through design, because what is the most distasteful thing someone can do? Kill someone. So, good taste is the opposite of that.
Kanye West -
Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.
Bernard Joseph Saurin -
Whatever relevance such evidence may have to prove other elements of plaintiff's case, it does not have anything to do with the issues presented by the president's and Ferguson's motions for summary judgment. I.e., whether plaintiff herself was the victim of alleged quid pro quo or a hostile work environment, sexual harassment, whether the president and Ferguson conspired to deprive her of her civil rights, or whether she suffered emotional distress so severe in nature that no reasonable person could be expected to endure it.
Charles Ruff -
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
Pearl S. Buck -
The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.
Nathaniel Hawthorne