S. M. Stirling Quotes

To take life was to understand your own death--that the Hour of the Huntsman also came for you.

S. M. Stirling

• Life
• Death
• Hours

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Life
  • Money
  • Fire

• I'm not the sort of person who wants to live my life doing just one thing. I like to go around and do as many things as possible.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Life
  • Live
  • My Life

• Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • People
  • Life
  • Best

• I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Like
  • Need
  • Hours

• There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Song

• I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.

  

  Iman
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• 'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Life
  • Me
  • Band

• My death is incidental, and I worry very much about my loved ones and, you know, would like to make it as easy as possible for them. Or wish I could will away whatever, you know, the sadness they will feel when I die. But for me, nothing. The world goes on.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • World
  • Death
  • Die

• What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Pain

• Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Life
  • High
  • Success

• The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the glow of its life.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Life
  • Time
  • Past

• You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

  

  Walter Hagen
  • Life
  • Worry
  • Short

• In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Up
  • Hair
  • Look

• 'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Death

• Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Done

• I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live; there's a different energy about living in the city.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Life
  • Great
  • Different

• I could care less about the radio or the TV or album sales. I want that connection with people because when I'm able to walk down the street, I want them to feel like I've done something for them and helped their life because I've never felt that way about a musician.

  

  Vince Staples
  • People
  • Life
  • Done

• I'm working over 80 hours a week and have to keep on track.

  

  Carl J. Lindner, Jr.
  • Working
  • Week
  • Hours

• Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Heart

• It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze? The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or even more, in a single work, provided that the plastic emotion requires it.

  

  Umberto Boccioni
  • Work
  • Different
  • Single

• Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • People
  • Sick
  • Name

• I'm pretty sure my mom is the only person on the planet who thinks that she got cancer so that I could find my calling in life, but as I started to build this company, all my years of useless education, random jobs, and weird interests merged into this serendipitous moment.

  

  Yael Cohen
  • Life
  • She
  • Pretty

• No heartbreak has grieved me as much to discover, the calorie content of my peanut butter.

  

  Coco J. Ginger
  • Heartbreak
  • Peanut Butter

• To take life was to understand your own death--that the Hour of the Huntsman also came for you.

  

  S. M. Stirling
  • Life
  • Death
  • Hours