Betty Shine Quotes
There is no such thing as death. We have all lived before and we are all going to experience new lives.
Quotes to Explore
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Racism is a physical experience.
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People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
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Sometimes, you're going 24 hours a day, seven days a week for a few months, and then you come home, and you wonder what you're doing with your life and why. At least, that's the experience I've had.
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It wasn't such a pleasant experience. We went through 14 hours with contractions every two minutes, no epidural, no nothing. Every two minutes, I would pass out. I went to the hospital on Saturday, and Levi was born on Monday.
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But I have been in some very beautiful churches, then I've looked outside and seen people starving to death.
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I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.
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I don't often do a lot of that kind of research, but when it's something specific like 'Oz' - which I fortunately did not have a lot of experience with - I will. I read 'The Hot House,' about being on the inside at Leavenworth prison.
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I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.
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I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.
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I got the same industry experience in five years that someone else might have had in 15.
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I haven't written about an immigrant experience because I haven't experienced that before and am focused on existential themes.
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Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.
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Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap.
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I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
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If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.
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'What do we know? What do we really know? He licks his dried cracked lips. We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foreknowledge of death. That is all we know. And all we need to know? Challenge that statement. I challenge that statement. With what? I don't know.'
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Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.
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Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.
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At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier 'hic est'.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such.
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There is no such thing as death. We have all lived before and we are all going to experience new lives.
