John Galsworthy Quotes

Life was to be lived - not torpidly dozed through in this queer cultured place, where age was in the blood! Life was for love - to be enjoyed!

John Galsworthy

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• Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Great
  • Opinion
  • Popular

• I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Great
  • Love

• Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
  • Man
  • Philosophy

• It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • God
  • Trying
  • Play

• I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • People
  • Girl
  • Door

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Time
  • Political
  • Spiritual

• The rewards of freedom are always sweet, but its demands are stern, for at its heart is the paradox that the greatest enemy of freedom is freedom.

  

  Os Guinness
  • Heart
  • Freedom
  • Enemy

• The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Violence
  • Inspiration
  • Respond

• 'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Heart
  • Creation
  • Closest

• My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Dad

• I don't move away from grief, rather through it.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Grief
  • Move
  • Rather

• Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Government
  • End
  • Plan

• Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Time
  • God
  • Free

• If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Kids
  • Write
  • Down

• Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Help
  • Man
  • Brave

• Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Green
  • Favorite
  • Colors

• While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a childs imagination.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Important
  • Imagination
  • Behinds

• The Washington Post is and has been the greatest historic competitor of the New York Times. Half of me, though, the unselfish part of me that is just a journalist, is thrilled. I want newspapers to succeed. Let's take the Guardian, which is a new competitor in the digital age. Does it make me nervous that they compete with us and in fact beat us on the Snowden story? Yes. The part of me that's a competitive journalist and wants to fight and play says: bring them on! It's more fun that way.

  

  Dean Baquet
  • Fun
  • Age
  • Succeed

• I think, very often, we're addicted to procedurals, those good guy/bad guy shows, and the 'problem' with procedurals is they all follow the same formula: The bad guy does his thing, the good guy goes after him, and in most cases, the good guy figures out who did it and catches him.

  

  Joe Morton
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• Even loneliness is not absolute loneliness because the contents of the universe are in him.

  

  Paul Tillich
  • Universe

• Life was to be lived - not torpidly dozed through in this queer cultured place, where age was in the blood! Life was for love - to be enjoyed!

  

  John Galsworthy
  • Life
  • Age