Quotes About Experience

When we'd magically assumed we could do better than our own parents, because we hadn't walked in their shoes yet. We didn't realize just how complicated and lonely even a good marriage can get.

I've made my mistakes and taken my licks and I still think a quiet life is overrated.

He's familiar, but he's not the same. He's an American whose family came from Haiti. My aunt, my sister, myself, we are Haitians who now live in America. He has never felt the ground shake beneath his feet. He doesn't understand that it can happen again.

I've held a beating pulse between my fingers and I've squeezed. And it's the best goddamn feeling in the world. DIFFORD:

YOU SPEND ENOUGH time chasing a dog to get back a precious black boot, you start to think like a dog. Spend the rest of your time chasing criminals, and you learn to think like a criminal.

A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around me, or society at large.

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

In my experience of living, for a time, in the underbelly of society, I spent a lot of time in various holding cells.

Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.

I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit.

The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

We don't live in a society that has genuine equality, and every woman we know has experienced that.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.