Nicholas Evans Quotes

Life isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you handle what happens.

Nicholas Evans

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• 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

• Life is an incurable disease.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Life
  • Disease
  • Incurable

• I never aimed to be on television or in the press. We all have a personal life, and being a public figure disrupts that.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Life
  • Television
  • Personal

• Many activities and team play participation will give you a training that will prove invaluable later on in life.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Life
  • Team
  • Training

• My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Life
  • World
  • Important

• The methodologies and best practices used to develop software can be applied successfully to any challenge in life.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Life
  • Best
  • Challenge

• The modern woman has a modern life, and most of us work. There's no time to change before we go out in the evening, so a dress should always look appropriate for day and night.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Man
  • Attention

• In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

  

  Sallust
  • Life
  • Practice
  • My Own

• Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.

  

  Tamer Hassan
  • Life
  • Home
  • Kids

• I spent a whole year in New York without going back to France. And I always came back because my mother was living in New York since I was 13. So I went to summer camps, hang out at the Roxy, go to class for ballet, so I always had part of my life in New York.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Summer

• When I was 21, I wanted to write like Kafka. But, unfortunately for me, I wrote like a script editor for 'The Simpsons' who'd briefly joined a religious cult and then discovered Foucault. Such is life.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Life
  • Religious
  • Editor

• My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Life
  • Myself
  • Best

• To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Me

• All men do the best they can. But none meet life honestly and few heroically.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Life
  • Men

• In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Life
  • Rest

• I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life.

  

  Jodie Foster
  • Life
  • Movie

• I think that in a weird way, as technology gets more sophisticated, people have become less aware of it. It's become part of our day to day life. We're seeing large-scale projection mapping, like on buildings. There's video everywhere. It's much less noticeable that we're actually looking at technology.

  

  Marco Brambilla
  • People
  • Life
  • Technology

• Professorship is not a career, but rather a life's pursuit. The people with whom I work daily exemplify and remind me of this promise.

  

  Tyrone Hayes
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Scars heal, glory fades, and all we're left with are the memories made. Pain hurts, but only for a minute. life is short, so go on and live it.

  

  Chris Cagle
  • Life
  • Live
  • Memories

• If you think research is expensive, try disease

  

  Mary Lasker

• I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Changed
  • Recognise
  • Pardon

• Life isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you handle what happens.

  

  Nicholas Evans
  • Life
  • Happens
  • Handle