Life Quotes
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'Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents! Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.'
Alexandre Dumas
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Darwinism did not strip meaning from the world but intensified it, 'by identifying it in as many aspects of life as possible'.
Neal Ascherson
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I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way `round
Malcolm Muggeridge
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I've done things that I wouldn't ordinarily seem capable of doing. And I've proven myself in situations where there's life and death at stake. And so, I can live with myself knowing that it's not a matter of guts or anything like that. It's a matter of willingness to go the length, to transcend yourself.
Jack Kirby
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I've gotten lots of great advice from lots of people that I admire, but the person who influenced me more than anyone in my life was my grandmother.
Mark Parker
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I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music.
Joan Jett
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About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.
Patrick O'Brian
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I am very sure that my children thrive on structure and need boundaries. I know my children need to know what time they are going to bed or how many more minutes until they are leaving for school, and so I have imposed a structure that allows them to know where they are all day long, every day in life.
Jessica Seinfeld
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I've had some incredibly triumphal things happen in my life.
Stevie Wonder
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life.... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.
Gaston Bachelard
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In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.
Washed Out
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In her businesslike way she thought that her life had begun when she was a very young woman and she really did look lovely: you knew it wouldn't last and you packed all you could into it - but men were different. A man like B - like Alfie, too - never got beyond the time when they were boys and, damn them, it kept them young.
V. S. Pritchett
