Lionel Shriver Quotes

Happiness isn't a position. It's a trajectory.

Lionel Shriver

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• I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Relationship
  • Husband

• I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Children
  • Control
  • Taxes

• I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Dad

• I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • People
  • Life
  • Blessed

• I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Good
  • Want
  • Look

• Estimates of the ionic mobilities vary over a considerable range; but in any event, the positive ionic defect is much more mobile in the solid than in the liquid, and its mobility varies very little with the temperature.

  

  Lars Onsager
  • Positive
  • Event
  • Mobile

• I tend to stay with the panic. I embrace the panic.

  

  Larry David
  • Embrace
  • Stay
  • Panic

• College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • College
  • Back
  • Worth

• I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Always
  • Person
  • Actions

• I'm not an overly happy person. There are times when I'm happy, and that's usually in my private life.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Person

• Looking back, I got the bed I wanted and I lay in it. I didn't want to go to America. If you want to join that world, you have to go and live there, and that was something I could not have done. I am very much about family. It doesn't matter where I live, but I feel very needful of my people around me. Besides, theatre is my first love.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• Preparing and cooking squid is easier than most fish. The only thing to remember is not to cook it for too long.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Cooking

• The French Revolution actualised the Enlightenment's greatest intellectual breakthrough: detaching the political from the theocratic.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Political
  • Revolution
  • Enlightenment

• If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • War

• I've never set out to teach anyone anything. It's been more of an expression of my views and feelings than sitting down and deciding 'What is today's message?' And I do think that, although I never, again, sat down consciously and thought about this, I do think judging, even for my own daughter, that children respond to that than to 'thought for the day.'

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Children
  • Today
  • Daughter

• Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic - or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power.

  

  Irving Kristol
  • Power
  • Abuse

• The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Doubt
  • Stupid

• It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • Truth
  • Emotional

• Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy.

  

  William Alcott
  • Character
  • Action
  • Humans

• As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • World
  • Man
  • Wish

• I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.

  

  Peter Eisenman
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• I am now able to make a couple of thousand dollars a day easily by trading stocks and forex. Well, this is only after 18 years of trading and losing tens of thousands of dollars when I first began. This is after looking at stock charts for 3-4 hours a day for 18 years.

  

  Adam Khoo
  • Stock
  • Trading
  • Charts

• I do like sci-fi, and I do like horror - those are my favorite genres. Good horror, though, not like slasher horror... psychological horror like 'The Shining' - really good stuff!

  

  Mark Pellegrino
  • Good

• Happiness isn't a position. It's a trajectory.

  

  Lionel Shriver