Virginia Woolf Quotes

Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

Virginia Woolf

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• Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I have dedicated my life to the 200m, I really love the 200m a lot.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Life
  • Really
  • Have

• The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Important
  • Law

• Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Live
  • Future

• I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• What has never changed, what is always present and what is, in the end, what sustains us is that energy that I talk about in 'Like Water for Chocolate...' that loving energy. Without that, I wouldn't have had the strength to keep going and enjoy life.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Water

• I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Kids

• 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

• According to my parents, I just started drumming when I was two. I traveled with them from five to seven on the road, playing percussion. Between 8 and 12, my dad sort of prepared me by teaching me every aspect of road life.

  

  Questlove
  • Life
  • Parents
  • Dad

• Rap culture is interesting and different and has purpose but it has a non-romantic view of life and of social feelings. There may be a void in that.

  

  Hal David
  • Life
  • Different
  • May

• I can't give a decent toast to save my life.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Save

• Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Life
  • Up
  • Always

• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• I am a total workaholic. If I don't shoot for two days, I get uncomfortable at home. I won't comment on my personal life. That is totally out of bounds. When I do get married, everyone will know.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Life
  • Home
  • Married

• For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Life
  • Years
  • Insurance

• I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Life
  • World
  • American

• When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Food
  • Eat

• 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
  • Life
  • Healthy
  • Empathy

• Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • Life

• Life I love you, all is groovy.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Life
  • I Love You
  • Groovy

• Actors are like Swiss Army knives - we're ready to use any lever at any moment. But I learned long ago that, unfortunately, this industry only sees the one thing sticking out that they know us from, and that's the only thing they can imagine.

  

  Allison Williams
  • Long
  • Army

• An elaborate system of etiquette and social standards flowered around the home phone: how long a child might be allowed to stay on the phone, how late one could call without being impolite, and of course, the dread implications of a late night call which violated that norm.

  

  John Battelle
  • Long
  • Home
  • Night

• Reputation is fine but you have to keep justifying it. In a sense, it makes it harder because people's expectations of you are higher. So, you have to fulfill those expectations. Or, try to exceed those expectations. But, it becomes more difficult as time goes on.

  

  Derek Jacobi
  • People
  • Time

• Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Life
  • Stories
  • Able