Alastair Humphreys Quotes

Sometimes all you need is to climb a simple hill, to spend time staring at an empty horizon, to jump into a cold river or sleep under the stars, or perhaps share a whisky at a small country inn in order to remind yourself what matters most to you in life.

Alastair Humphreys

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• It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • You
  • Life Is A

• It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Life
  • Choice
  • Embrace

• Realize that the game of life is the game of, to some extent, being taken advantage of by people who make a science of it. Whether they are in government or personal life or in business, they're everywhere.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Business

• Relationships are hard. If as an actor you marry an engineer or a doctor, it's really hard for them because they don't understand what your life is like. We live two lives. We have a 'reel' life and a real life.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Life
  • Live
  • Real

• You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Life
  • Me
  • My Life

• I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.

  

  Wendie Malick
  • Life
  • Think
  • Balance

• 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

• India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

  

  Gary Wright
  • People
  • Life
  • Happy

• God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• Much of what we consider the American way of life is rooted in the period of remarkably broad, shared economic growth, from around 1900 to about 1978.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Life
  • American
  • Growth

• It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• All throughout my life I have been deeply immersed in startups, either because I was running one or investing in them or helping them.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Life
  • Running
  • My Life

• If you want to love your life more, you can begin by living and loving more of it - by zestfully living and loving every teeny-tiny, gorgeously-detailed minutiae moment!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Love
  • Minutiae

• I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been but one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time, it is the accusation that I am, in essence, nothing more than an escapist. Apparently this is bad, suspect, possibly even un-American.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • Life
  • Time
  • American

• Move every day. Like taking a shower and brushing your teeth. Make it a part of your everyday life.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.

  

  Tana French
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Change

• Hollywood typecast me as the secretary. I could have worked as the quirky secretary for the rest of my life, but I decided not to do that.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Hollywood

• I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.

  

  Wendy Cope
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.

  

  Andre Dubus III
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I just want to live a long healthy life, and I don't want to have any neurological diseases or die younger than I would otherwise.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Life
  • Long
  • Live

• Depression isn't about, 'Woe is me, my life is this, that and the other', it's like having the worst flu all day that you just can't kick.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Life
  • Depression
  • Flu

• No government proposal more complicated than 'This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private' ever works.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Proposal

• You will derive much satisfaction in later life simply by shooting looks at people.

  

  Gary Janetti
  • People
  • Life
  • Satisfaction

• Sometimes all you need is to climb a simple hill, to spend time staring at an empty horizon, to jump into a cold river or sleep under the stars, or perhaps share a whisky at a small country inn in order to remind yourself what matters most to you in life.

  

  Alastair Humphreys
  • Life
  • Matters
  • Remind