William Lyon Phelps Quotes

Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.

William Lyon Phelps

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• I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Life
  • Education
  • Information

• Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Work
  • Long

• What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

  

  Laura Linney
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Choices

• I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• 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

• That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Cool
  • Boy

• As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Risk
  • Soldiers

• Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Period

• Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Life
  • Partner
  • Abuse

• I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

• I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Fun

• The 'Dog's Purpose' premise has gotten me so many emails and comments from people who say that their dog is so much like one they had when they were young or years before, that it seems like the truth. The idea that you would come across an old friend later in life.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• I've had an angel on my shoulder all my life.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Angel

• I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Life
  • Time
  • She

• We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Women
  • Love

• Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Life
  • You
  • Easy

• Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Life

• The latitude and longitudinal lines of where you are born determine your opportunity in life, and it's not equal. We may have been created equal, but we're not born equal. It's a lot to do with luck and you have to pass that on.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Life
  • May
  • Opportunity

• We didn't have any segregation at the Cotton Club. No. The Cotton Club was wide open, it was free.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Free
  • Segregation
  • Cotton

• The way I look at it, they're all part of my musical diary, and I can listen to any one of them and it will bring up memories of what was going on at that time.

  

  John Mayall
  • Up
  • Time
  • Memories

• I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Society
  • Government
  • Politics

• Life, with all it's sorrows, cares, perplexities and heart-breaks, is more interesting than bovine placidity, hence more desirable. The more interesting it is, the happier it is.

  

  William Lyon Phelps
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Care