Life Is Quotes - Page 35

• If you defend a behavior by arguing that people are programmed directly for it, then how do you continue to defend it if your speculation is wrong, for the behavior then becomes unnatural and worthy of condemnation. Better to stick resolutely to a philosophical position on human liberty: what free adults do with each other in their own private lives is their business alone. It need not be vindicated and must not be condemned by genetic speculation.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Philosophical, People, Liberty

  Stephen Jay Gould (1992). “Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History”, p.267, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something, when if we'd understood the situation better, we might have celebrated our good fortune insteadOne can never change the past, only the hold it has on you and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

  Merle Shain

  Good Luck, Past, Years

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• I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.

  Diego Della Valle

  Squares, Small Villages, Bars

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• A long life is a life well spent.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Life, Long, Wells

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.87, eKitap Projesi

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• Can an idea a notion as abstract as Relativism produce by itself the effects alleged? cause all the harm, destroy all the lives and reputations? I am as far as anyone can be from denying the power of ideas in history, but the suggestion that a philosophy (as Relativism is often called) has perverted millions and debased daily life is on the face of it absurd. No idea working alone has ever demoralized society, and there have been plenty of ideas simpler and more exciting than Relativism.

  Jacques Barzun

  Philosophy, Ideas, Working Alone

  Jacques Barzun (1989). “The Culture We Deserve”, p.89, Wesleyan University Press

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• When life is woe, and hope is dumb, the World says, "Go!" The Grave says, "Come!

  Arthur Guiterman

  Death, Dumb, World

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• It's lovely having grass and trees and flowers(Of course, at times, mosquitoes are a pest).Yes, life is life out here in Rangely Towers(Of course Some People like the city best)!

  Arthur Guiterman

  Flower, Cities, People

  Arthur Guiterman, “Our Suburb”

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• Death's a fable. Did not Heaven inspire your equal Elements with living Fire blown from the Spring of Life? Is not that breath Immortal? Come; ye are as free from death as He that made ye: Can the flames expire which he kindled?

  Francis Quarles

  Death, Spring, Fire

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• Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths.

  Francis Quarles

  Pain, Self, Immortal Life

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• To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.

  Timothy Leary

  Boredom, Routine, Elitist

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• The playing field of life is not level, and for you to compete in the game of life, you need an equalizer of some kind. In the old West, the equalizer was the six-shooter. It enabled a little guy to chop a bigger man down to size. Desire is also an equalizer--and nowadays is highly encouraged over a six-shooter!

  Zig Ziglar

  Men, Games, Guy

  Zig Ziglar, Tom Ziglar (2012). “Born to Win: Find Your Success Code”, p.27, AudioInk

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• All you need to find and accomplish God's purpose in your life is God's permission and approval--not anyone else's. When you get in step with Him, there will be a glow on your face that will make people wonder what you're up to.

  Zig Ziglar

  People, Needs, Purpose

  Zig Ziglar (2007). “Better Than Good: Creating a Life You Can't Wait to Live”, p.174, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In creating the strange milieu in which your story takes place, you must first understand as well as you possibly can the familiar milieu in which your own life is taking place. Until you have examined and comprehended the world around you, you can't possibly create a complex and believable imaginary world.

  Orson Scott Card

  Creating, Stories, World

  Orson Scott Card (2001). “How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy”, p.61, Writer's Digest Books

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• I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart.

  Orson Scott Card

  Father, Heart, I've Learned

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Prentice Alvin: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.222, Macmillan

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• How short life is for fools.

  Orson Scott Card

  Short Life, How Short Life Is, Fool

  Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.181, Macmillan

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• We say that life is sweet, its satisfactions deep. All this we say, as we sleepwalk our time through years of days and nights. We let time cascade over us like a waterfall, believing it to be never-ending. Yet each day that touches us, and every man in the world, is unique; irredeemable; over. And just another Monday.

  Josephine Hart

  Life, Sweet, Monday

  Josephine Hart (1991). “Damage: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• First, then, I say, that the mind, which we often call the intellect, in which is placed the conduct and government of life, is not less an integral part of man himself, than the hand, and foot, and eyes, are portions of the whole animal.

  Lucretius

  Eye, Men, Animal

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1851). “On the Nature of Things”, p.103

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• People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

  Bertrand Russell

  People, Competition, Wish

  Bertrand Russell (2002). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970”, p.215, Psychology Press

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• As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which is timid, in all likelihood, and fit for common people, not one which is kingly and splendid. This wisdom, such as it is, observing that human life is ever subject to all sorts of vicissitudes, forbids us to be puffed up by the good things we have, or to admire a man's felicity while there is still time for it to change.

  Solon

  Men, Blessing, Giving

  "Solon". Book by Plutarch, ch. 27; translation by Bernadotte Perrin, 1497.

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• What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows.

  Doris Lessing

  Life, Phases, Terrible

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• So a war begins. Into a peace-time life, comes an announcement, a threat. A bomb drops somewhere, potential traitors are whisked off quietly to prison. And for some time, days, months, a year perhaps, life has a peace-time quality, into which war-like events intrude. But when a war has been going on for a long time, life is all war, every event has the quality of war, nothing of peace remains.

  Doris Lessing

  War, Years, Long

  DORIS LESSING (1969). “THE FOUR-GATED CITY”

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• When a book's pattern and the shape of its inner life is as plain to the reader as it is to the author -- then perhaps it is time to throw the book aside, as having had its day, and start again on something new.

  Doris Lessing

  Book, Shapes, Patterns

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

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• I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance.

  Dorothy Day

  Heart, Government, Complaining

  Dorothy Day (2011). “The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day”, p.582, Image

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• Those social networks, there's something sad about them. Is it because they don't have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don't understand it. It's like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Hate, Mirrors, People

  "Media People: Q&A With Karl Lagerfeld". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. September 12, 2014.

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• I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Pantomime

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