Jimmy Carter Quotes
Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.
Quotes to Explore
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The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.
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I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
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My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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I've never worried about life's big questions.
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My whole musical life has been an educational process, and I'm just furthering my education and filling in the blanks. There's stuff that I want to know that I don't know.
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Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.
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Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.
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My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
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I have seen many teachers in real life, which come from the same background and morality and treat their profession like just another one rather than a noble profession.
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If you want to love your life more, you can begin by living and loving more of it - by zestfully living and loving every teeny-tiny, gorgeously-detailed minutiae moment!
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The more difficult a man's life had been before the camp, the more furiously he lied. This lie had no practical purpose; it served simply to glorify freedom. How could a man be unhappy outside the camp?
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The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process.
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There is enough sadness in life without having fellows like Gussie Fink-Nottle going about in sea boots.
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To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
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Life without absorbing occupation is hell - joy consists in forgetting life.
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There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.
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And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.
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Anything I do, I spend a lot of time. I do it with passion and intensity. I want to be in charge.
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No man should be on Facebook. It's an invasion of everyone's privacy. I really cannot stand it.
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Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.
