Jack London Quotes

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

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• Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Done
  • Flying
  • Down

• Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Interesting
  • Woman
  • Wonder

• I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Country
  • Home

• Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Want

• As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • Work
  • Important

• Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Earth
  • Energy
  • Oil

• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happiness
  • Knowing
  • Grateful

• Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Man
  • Being
  • Silly

• And also I assert our interest in respecting all our obligations and implementing all our commitments. And will save no effort whatever to protect this newborn opportunity of peace, that is provided through what we have already declared here today.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Today
  • Opportunity
  • Peace

• That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Up
  • Real
  • Action

• Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Good
  • Important
  • Mind

• Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.

  

  Valerie June
  • Music
  • Different
  • Writing

• I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Losing

• The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Broken
  • New
  • Year

• Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Sometimes
  • Win
  • Fight

• I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • iPhone

• I did always dream of being a professional player. I think every kid does dream of being a pro, but to last the journey you have to love tennis as a sport and if you are lucky enough to make it in the pros, it is really a bonus.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Dream
  • Journey
  • Professional

• The pop-star thing bores me because it's somebody programming someone else. Stand over here, sing that, no, sing it like this, talk like that, when they ask you this, don't say that, say this, hold that, drive this, stay here, live there - you're not even a human being. You're a puppet.

  

  Randy Jackson Breakfast Club
  • Live
  • Me
  • Star

• Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

  

  Edward Young
  • Men
  • Live
  • May

• I'd said to my sweetheart a couple of days before that the SAG and Spirit Award nomination was amazing and I had no attachment to the Academy Award. I knew I was an underdog so I just decided to sleep through the announcement.

  

  John Hawkes
  • Amazing
  • Sleep
  • Couple

• My idol was Terry Bradshaw, but my role model was my father because I saw how much he worked and how much he focused on his trade. I was brought up the right way.

  

  Jim Kelly
  • Up
  • Father
  • Model

• All fundamental political problems are problems of relationships; therefore, all fundamental solutions have to involve fundamental changes in relationships.

  

  F. David Mathews
  • Political
  • Politics
  • Fundamentals

• The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

  

  Jack London
  • Time
  • Live
  • Trying