Quotes About Experience

You will be leaving, of course. Or I could help you. I've had a bit of practice bathing myself and I think I can stumble my way through this.

We fail; we learn. Unless we fail to learn.

You'd think after two thousand years, I'd be accustomed to looks of fear.

I want Holly to experience life. To take away the blinders she has so assiduously relied on. I think you're just the type of person to show her what she doesn't know and doesn't want to know. My niece is innocent in so many ways, and there comes a time in a woman's life when innocence is merely a euphemism for ignorance.

Well I am young. Just as he felt a flicker of ease, she murmured in a sexy voice, But, baby, I've been busy.

and there comes a time in a woman's life when innocence is merely a euphemism for ignorance.

Perhaps Court was just an ignorant Scot, but he preferred two things in his surgeons: that they be sober, and that they have lived long enough to have practiced on others before getting to him.

The judgiest people are the ones who've lived the least.

I'd witnessed how brutal this boy could be—he'd nearly beaten the man to death in front of me. Yet he was now touching my paintings gently, almost reverently. I felt like a spy, like this was a moment I was never supposed to share. It seemed . . . intimate. When he touched the cane, I swore I could feel him aching for those fields, for that rain about to fall.

She'd seen a lot, and knew a lot, and she knew Wroth moved and used his body on hers—in hers—in a way that was nothing short of divine.

Plus, she had centuries of sexual experience over this hard-up virgin novice. Though she'd never take it too far, she could tempt him up to a point. She'd run circles around him, wrapping him around her little finger.

I was thinking about his hands on me. Nobody had ever treated me like that. Not ever. But now they had. And how was I ever going to forget it? I would never. I would never.

Why would I assume that the guy wanted to hurt me when nobody's ever tried to hurt me before?

The body is an organ of memory, holding traces of all our experiences. The land, too, carries the burden of all its changes. To truly see and understand a landscape is to see its depth as well as its smooth surfaces, its beauty and its scars.

Life is about messing up. And I'm startin' to think it wouldn't be as exciting if we were perfect.

People react primarily to direct experience and not to abstractions; it is very rare to find anyone who can become emotionally involved with an abstraction. The longer the bomb is around without anything happening, the better the job that people do in psychologically denying its existence. It has become as abstract as the fact that we are all going to die someday, which we usually do an excellent job of denying.

Desde James Joyce, sabemos que a maior aventura de nossa vida é a ausência de aventuras.

because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion. They are composed like music

In ogni caso va usato il buon senso che – e non solo in montagna – vale più della teoria, soprattutto se conti di tornare a casa a raccontare la storia.

La tua terra non è semplicemente il posto dove sei nato e vissuto da bambino. La tua terra si espande e man mano che tu vivi le tue radici affondano nel suolo di altri paesi. E' un dono della vita, ma anche un peso, perchè gioia e nostalgia diventano tuoi compagni sempre più inseparabili.

Well, fortunately I know what the best looks like now," she says as she links her arms around my neck.

It was still only nine o'clock when I set off on the last leg of my journey, feeling old and dirty and incapable. You probably know the feeling if you are over eighteen.

You are learning something every day. A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

I find I learn much more by traveling than by staying at home.