Quotes About Life

A little old lady once said to me, 'I have known a great many men. All of them had to be carried every step of the way.

I played all games seriously, even nastily. They provided me an enclosed world whose triumphs compensated me somewhat for a life of defeat elsewhere.

You see, the universe has no meaning and there was no purpose in my being born into it. I never listen to conversations which begin, 'We are all put into the world for...' because we weren't put into the world. We just happened and we have no purpose and that's fine.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

As soon as I stepped out of my mother's womb...I realized that I had made a mistake

Political life sets the main problems for the political theorist, causing a certain range of issues to appear problematic, and a corresponding range of questions to become the leading subjects of debate. This view does not entails that theoretical ideas are to be treated as a straightforward outcome of their social base, but are certainly to be read in terms of their wider intellectual context

The intellectual historian can help us to appreciate how far the values embodied in our present way of life, and our present ways of thinking about those values, reflect a series of choices made at different times between different possible worlds.

I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.

To one degree or another I've spent my entire life since both attending movies and making them, trying to re-create the experience of watching a brand-new Jim Brown Film..

dead as fried chicken

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go home and have a heart attack.

Cerrar podrá mis ojos la postrera sombra, que me llevare el blanco día

Al capdavall, només vivim un o dos cops.

Al final ¿cómo es el asunto? ¿uno va llevando su vida adelante, o la vida se lo lleva por delante a uno?

Indudablemente, la primavera es lo más publicitario que tiene la vida.

Scala separates the "goods" (i.e., the good things which make life happy) of this world into three classes: goods of the body, goods of the soul, and a third category of what he calls "external goods.

Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.

I feel Him kiss my brow, a chill weight on my forehead. In the kiss is absolution, yes, but understanding as well. Understanding that it is He I serve, not the convent. His divine spark lives within me, a presence that will never leave. And I am but one of the many tools he has at his disposal. If I cannot act--if I refuse to act--that is a choice I am allowed to make. He has given me life, and all I must do to serve Him is live. Fully and with my whole heart.

Men or tigers, sphex or carabs are under the same necessity; to kill or to die, or to shed blood or eat grass. But to eat grass, is not much better than suicide: ask the lambkins.

The illuminations of research would remain disjointed, and even fail to reckon the simple fact that life as it persisted in the seven continents of this planet has been a continuum. –P.J. Cherian

The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.

Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.