Life Quotes - Page 182

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

I lead a very boring life.

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger - something that matters.

Life is just a moment of time and it pass by

If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.

Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement.

Lincolnshire is the Idaho of England. You were either going to drive a tractor for the rest of your life or head for the city to work in a factory.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

But smiles and tears are so alike with me, they are neither of them confined to any particular feelings: I often cry when I am happy, and smile when I am sad.

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.

There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

I live my life as I deem appropriate and fitting; I offer no apologies, no explanations.

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives

I ain't got no reverse. I've learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.

You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

All is a miracle. The stupendous order of nature, the revolution of a hundred millions of worlds around a million of stars, the activity of light, the life of all animals, all are grand and perpetual miracles.

Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live the life of a long-distance truck driver. The books that you read are like the travelers you take into your cab. If you give lifts to people who are cultured and profound, you'll learn a lot from them. If you pick up fools, you'll turn into a fool yourself.

A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.