Pat Conroy Quotes

I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

Pat Conroy

• Life
• Nature
• Human Nature

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• I have dedicated my life to the 200m, I really love the 200m a lot.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Life
  • Really
  • Have

• Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • American
  • Eating

• Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Life
  • Work
  • Rest

• Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Life
  • Live
  • Past

• Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Man

• When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Life
  • Children
  • Political

• I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, and I'm not going to live my life where I'm not going to go out and have a coffee or lunch with my guy friends.

  

  Camilla Belle
  • Life
  • Live
  • Friends

• I have to give importance to my personal life, my family, parents, and sisters. I hope I can strike the right balance.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Hope

• I've learned through experience that life is never that bad. The secret is just paying attention to how you feel and not letting anyone else dictate what in your heart you know is right.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Experience

• He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Life
  • Never
  • Intellectual

• The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Bad
  • Nature
  • Conspiracy

• But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.

  

  Fisher Stevens
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist - Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Life
  • Good
  • Value

• I always say I don't want to change anything in my life.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Life
  • Change
  • My Life

• When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.

  

  Zac Goldsmith
  • Good
  • Book
  • Nature

• I'm a part of your life. You might not know it, but I am.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Life
  • Part

• All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mood

• A strange persuasion came upon me that, save for the grossness of the line, the grotesqueness of the forms, I had here before me the whole balance of human life in miniature, the whole interplay of instinct, reason, and fate in its simplest form.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Life
  • Balance
  • Fate

• If I paint a hammer and sickle people may think it is a representation of Communism, but for me it is only a hammer and sickle. I just want to reproduce the objects for what they are, not for what they mean.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Thinking
  • May

• Only a complete moral idiot can believe for an instant that we are fighting against the wretched of the earth. We are fighting, as I said before, against the scum of the earth

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Believe
  • Earth
  • Fighting

• There were a lot of songs during my MCA years that I thought should have been singles but were not. You can't worry about what wasn't - I was very lucky to have as many hits as I had.

  

  George Jones Mr. President (band)
  • Worry

• I have found human nature a bit contradictory in my living of it. Human life is incredibly strange.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Human Nature