Life Quotes
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.
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Man's got his woman to take his seed He's got the power - oh She's got the need She spends her life through pleasing up her man She feeds him dinner or anything she can. She cries alone at night too often He smokes and drinks and don't come home at all. Only women bleed...
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You're not a rock n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.
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If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in passing, what makes it real? Writing it down.
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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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I want a private life, I truly do. I'm not just pretending to want one like lots of celebrities.
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Life is mortal. There are all these rewards and consequences. Sometimes you embrace them, and sometimes they knock you over.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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You are not responsible for anyone who stubbornly chooses to ruin his own life.
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I'm so blessed with my baby. And I want the most normal life possible for him. And I'll manage, I will create that.
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God's good. He can just pull a life out of a pit, can't He?
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Reading has always been the great love of my life.
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It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.
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Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. And overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life. While poverty persists, there is no true freedom.
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I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.
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To read a novel or see a play was to drink life through a straw - to smoke it through a filter-tip. If we were not afraid of blackening our teeth or riddling our lungs with cancer - if we were a dauntless race of men with strong digestions - we would be able to devour life without the aid of these over-civilized devices.
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I travel a lot, so I know that it's important to have people in your life to keep you ground.
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To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job.
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To be gay is beautiful and right and perfect; to tell someone they need to change their innermost being is setting up someone for an unhealthy life and unhealthy foundation.
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I have met friends that I will stay connected to for the rest of my life.
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To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance.
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I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.
