Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury Quotes

Life is not to live merely, but to live well.

Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury

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• Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Sad
  • Now
  • Divorce

• My phone blows up all the time. I had to change my number.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Change

• I was a child actor. I was this spaz kid diagnosed with ADHD, and I worked all the time.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Kid

• It's better to waste money than time. You can always get more money.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Time
  • Money
  • Better

• I looked at but was not allowed to touch Ai Weiwei's 'Sunflower Seeds' at the Tate. The film of making them was really moving.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Moving
  • Film
  • Touch

• Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • True
  • Political
  • Law

• If there's one thing I hope people are certain of it's this: I'm looking out for YOU - the taxpayer.

  

  Laura Miller
  • People
  • Hope
  • Looking

• That's why I have always admired documentaries, because they open windows that can make you understand much better where you come from, much better than fiction, I think.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Why
  • Think
  • Better

• Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Man
  • Rest

• No one ever knows if a book is good until they read the book.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Good
  • Book
  • Ever

• Not only do people go into Chinese restaurants, but people are more likely to work with other Chinese-Americans, more likely to marry them.

  

  Iris Chang
  • People
  • Work
  • Chinese

• There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Hope
  • Bottom
  • Waterfall

• The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Good
  • Baby
  • Bible

• Strike one is a big, big pitch-you can do a lot after you get strike one, no matter how you get it.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Matter
  • Pitch
  • Strike

• Individuals seem to have reached their walls and so has the entire human race. Whatever isn't working, isn't life-producing, isn't producing love for ourselves or others, is going to have to go now. Or, literally, there will be hell to pay.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Pay
  • Human Race

• The issue is not whether or not you have that power, the issue is whether or not you use it.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Power
  • Use
  • Issue

• The same sun that melts butter hardens clay.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Sun
  • Clay

• It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Writing
  • Fiction
  • Concern

• I'd read at a much higher-than-average grade level since, well, grade school.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • School
  • Read
  • Well

• My private life is private. But at the same time, I have nothing to hide. So what I will say is that I am very happy.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Happy

• Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel, you're able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Water

• From Shane's Point of View: Jester talking to Shane: "What's the matter? You afraid you'd bite your skinny little girlfriend?" Jester laughed. "She's already someone else's, you know. I can smell the bite on her. He's marked her." Myrnin. "Shut up," I said, and kicked him in the face.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • She
  • Face

• Life is not to live merely, but to live well.

  

  Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury
  • Life is
  • Well