Eric Thomas Quotes

You don't get out of life what you want. You get out of life who you are.

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• The next step in my life is hopefully meeting a nice guy and getting married.

  

  Tara Reid
  • Life
  • Guy
  • Nice

• I wanted to make a film - and I've been wanting to do this for 16 years - about life in care, and bring it to the public's attention, because I had never seen anything, on TV or in the cinema, which said: 'This is how it feels to be a kid in care'.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Life
  • Attention
  • Care

• His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Nice

• Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Real
  • Bad

• Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Children
  • Start

• They had enough. They wanted to enjoy their life.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Life
  • Enough
  • Enjoy

• I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• I find too often in the wrestling business, you just wrestle, get to the hotel, make your money. Sometimes I have to stop and remind myself to enjoy my life and not just rush through.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Life
  • Money
  • Business

• Fortunately, problems are an everyday part of our life. Consider this: If there were no problems, most of us would be unemployed.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Problems
  • Everyday

• Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.

  

  Eavan Boland
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Language

• It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say, 'I don't know.'

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Know
  • Easy

• I don't want to die thinking I've only done one thing in my life.

  

  Maggie Cheung
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Done

• The more doubt you have, the less likely it is that the creation will come to life.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Life
  • Doubt

• It had, perhaps, not been a very edifying life. On the booze in England, in India, in Malaya… And then a couple of gins for breakfast and then the first beers of the day in a kedai … He had been driven out of that Eden…because of his sinful desire to taste what was forbidden.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Life
  • Desire
  • Couple

• And I never thought this life was possible,You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Life
  • Waiting
  • Bird

• Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Life
  • Game
  • Author

• The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Health
  • Devil

• Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Life
  • Game
  • Success

• Maybe it's because I was named for him, but I've always wanted to meet Nathaniel Hawthorne. It's oversimplifying, but all Hawthorne's short stories and novels are, in one way or another, about guilt. Something profoundly disturbing must have happened to him at an early age. I'd like to know what that was.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Age
  • Short
  • Guilt

• Can you imagine what that little conversation is going to look like, held in the independent counsel's office, with the people there who have the capacity to put Ms. Lewinsky in jail? ... Can we really say that it's just normal, just OK, to have one side using the might and majesty of the independent counsel's office threatening a witness with violation of an immunity agreement if she doesn't fly across the country for this little chat? I think not.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • People
  • Country
  • She

• I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Writer
  • Worked
  • Journalist

• Nature may certainly produce whatever can arise from habit: Nay, habit is nothing but one of the principles of nature, and derives all its force from that origin.

  

  David Hume
  • May
  • Nature
  • Habit

• I used to slap my hip to keep a beat.

  

  Joe Cocker

• You don't get out of life what you want. You get out of life who you are.

  

  Eric Thomas
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