Facts Of Life Quotes - Page 4

• Impotence, fetishism, bisexuality, and bondage are all facts of life, and our fiction should reflect that.

  Rick Moody

  Fiction, Facts, Bondage

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• Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow? . . . . I have been thinking much about pain. How could I help it? . . . . Sooner or later, regardless of the wit of man, we have pain to face; a reality; a final inescapable, immutable fact of life. What poor souls, if we have then no philosophy to face it with! This pain will not last; it never has lasted. I'll think about what I am going to write tomorrow-not about me, not about my body.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Life, Pain, Philosophy

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• Multiple political parties are a fact of life throughout Europe and most of the West. Today the only countries without strong multiparty political systems are the United States and a number of third world military dictatorships.

  Thomas Naylor

  Country, Strong, Military

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• The children were overwhelmingly morbid. Not a single adult asked me where butterflies go when they die, but this question was more popular than pixie sticks with the under-four-foot set. I cursed parents for not preparing their children. When I was five, my mother and sister sat me up on the kitchen counter and explained the facts of life: the Easter Bunny didn't exist, Elijah was God's invisible friend, with any luck Nana would die soon, and if I ever saw a unicorn, I should kill it or catch it for cash. I turned out okay.

  Sloane Crosley

  Mother, Easter, Children

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.106, Portobello Books

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• Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.

  Griffith Edwards

  Alcohol, Bottles, Facts

  Griffith Edwards (2013). “Alcohol: The World's Favorite Drug”, p.1, Macmillan

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• Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Confusion, Environmental, Cost

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• A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Museums, Groups

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• With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.

  Arabella Weir

  Father, Sibling, School

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• Our generation grew up with the Review as a fact of life. It was America’s literary magazine. To our minds, it still is. It has launched our favorite writers. It has made a special claim for the quarterly as such, being both timely and lasting, free of the news of the day or the pressure to please a crowd. Most of all, the Review has shown, repeatedly, that works of imagination can be as stylish and urgent as the flashiest feature reporting, and can do more to refocus our picture of the world.

  Lorin Stein

  Our Generation, America, Imagination

  "Editor's Note". www.theparisreview.org. 2010.

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• I am determined to elect a president of our choosing this year and one who will be deeply indebted, and who will recognize his indebtedness. Since I am willing to go beyond all limitations on this, I think we should be able to select a candidate and a party who knows the facts of political life....If we select Nixon, then he, I know for sure knows the facts of life.

  Howard Hughes

  Party, Thinking, Years

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• The facts of life do not penetrate to the sphere in which our beliefs are cherished; they did not engender those beliefs, and they are powerless to destroy them.

  Marcel Proust

  Facts, Spheres, Belief

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume I: Swann's Way (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.219, Modern Library

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• When you drop the ego, you drop a whole world that you have created around it. For the first time you are able to see things as they are - not as you would like them to be. And when you are capable of knowing the facts of life, you become capable of knowing the truth. The facility of life is the first step towards truth. And ego is the most falsifying agent.

  Rajneesh

  Knowing, Ego, Agents

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• Globalization is a fact of life. But I believe we have underestimated its fragility.

  Kofi Annan

  Believe, Fragility, Facts

  Kofi A. Annan (2015). “We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century”, p.64, Routledge

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• Unfortunately, I experienced some sexual abuse. It was a known and admitted fact of life amongst us that there was this particular man, and you didn't want to be left in the dressing room with him. It took many years to come to terms with it and to forgive those incidents that I felt had deeply hurt me.

  Gabriel Byrne

  Hurt, Men, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.

  Saul Bellow

  Art, Design, Matter

  Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.216, Penguin

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• Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Prayer, Mean, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.81, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It's a fact of life that how you dress affects how you are perceived and whether your contribution to a meeting is registered as worth listening to. It was most alarming the way people's attitudes changed when I started wearing my designer suits to committee meetings. Obviously, it's not just the clothes that count; you have got to have something worth saying. But it si true that some people's views are dismissed before they speak because others perceive them as just a secretary!

  Stephanie Ellis

  Fashion, Attitude, Views

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• A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Self, Rome

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• It's a fact of life that there will be oil spills, as long as oil is moved from place to place, but we must have provisions to deal with them, and a capability that is commensurate with the size of the oil shipments.

  Sylvia Earle

  Oil, Long, Size

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• There are some advantages to being a writer: you do generally get better as you get older. I think I understand things better. When I was a kid, I was kind of guessing at the emotion. Now I'm interested in writing more difficult books, books that confront the facts of life, of death and dying and failure - the majority of life. You write outwardly imaginative books when you're younger. When you're older you apply imagination to internal experience.

  Ethan Canin

  Book, Kids, Writing

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• A lady, that is an enlightened, cultivated, liberal lady - the only kind to be in a time of increasing classlessness - could espouse any cause: wayward girls, social diseases, unmarried mothers, and/or birth control with impunity. But never by so much as the shadow of a look should she acknowledge her own experience with the Facts of Life.

  Virgilia Peterson

  Girl, Mother, Hypocrisy

  Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books

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• So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Simple, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• The lack of women directors is a sad fact of life. Kathryn Bigelows thrilling Best Director win may help turn things around.

  Lynda Obst

  Winning, Directors, May

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• German dominance in the EU is a fact of life. But for historical reasons, it would be the last country to be swept away by a populist wave. And one thing is certain: If Germany goes down, Europe goes down, and with it all the values which we thought are worth living for. Germany has to be the champion of these values.

  Anthony Glees

  Country, Champion, Historical

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I'm frequently surprised, sometimes bugged off, and sometimes happy, depending on the actor. It's a fact of life that just as often as not an actor can breathe life into a line as he can destroy it by misinterpretation, and I've been blessed frequently by having good actors.

  Rod Serling

  Blessed, Actors, Lines

  Source: www.rodserling.com

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