Saul Bellow Quotes

The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.

Saul Bellow

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• I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.

  

  Adam Baldwin
  • Couple
  • Said
  • Pilots

• To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Life
  • Way
  • Life Goes On

• We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Energy
  • New
  • Research

• The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • American
  • Think
  • Boy

• Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Never
  • Laws
  • Take

• I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Action
  • Kind
  • Looking

• Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Truth
  • Actions
  • Consequences

• If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Think
  • End

• We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Time
  • Live
  • Day

• But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Challenge
  • Acting
  • Loved

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • America
  • Hope
  • Culture

• The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Attention
  • Problem

• Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Small
  • Deep
  • Pride

• We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • May
  • Financial
  • Management

• I'm obsessed with being human.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Human
  • Being
  • Being Human

• At some point, life starts to pass you by and becomes about avoidance. I want to stay clear from that situation, because I don't like that.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Want
  • Situation

• Our mothers and fathers want change. They worked all of their lives, but today live in destitution.

  

  Viktor Yushchenko
  • Live
  • Today
  • Change

• Coming to a team like the Spurs, you're automatically going to learn how to play the game the right way.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Game
  • Team

• I can remember in the late 1980s and early 1990s how many men with AIDS I saw everywhere in Key West. There were hospices and medical supply stores geared to people with AIDS. It seemed that every sick man who could afford it had headed for the warmth and the tranquillity and the gay-friendliness of the island.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • Men
  • Remember

• In the 1980s, we were advised, why don't you follow Reaganomics or Thatcherite economics. We said, yes, there are good points, let's see how we can fit them in the Indian economy. Every country has its own way of moving forward.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • Good
  • Country
  • Why

• I am reminded of the words of Chairman Mao: It's always darkest before it goes completely black.

  

  John McCain
  • Black
  • Words

• I was supposedly living this glamorous life, but I was crippled by the idea of growing old and where do I go next? The whole age thing—in our industry, it's everything.

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • Life
  • Age
  • Growing

• The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Life
  • Men
  • Worst