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Life Quotes (page 618)

Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare. Ernest Hemingway
What’s wrong? Has Francis been rude? Then you must try to overlook it. I know you wouldn’t think so, but he is thoroughly upset by Tom Erskine’s death; and when Francis is troubled he doesn’t show it, he just goes and makes life wretched for somebody. Dorothy Dunnett
John Ruskin quote: "Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life,..."
Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close. John Ruskin
That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar. Charlotte Bronte
Stephen King quote: "How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art,..."
How life did imitate art sometimes. And the cruder the art, the closer the imitation. Stephen King
Put on what weary negligence you please, You and your fellows; I'll have it come to question: If he dislike it, let him to our sister, Whose mind and mine, I know, in that are one, Not to be over-ruled. Idle old man, That still would manage those authorities. That he hath given away! Now, by my life, Old fools are babes again; and must be used. With cheques as flatteries,--when they are seen abused. Remember what I tell you. William Shakespeare
She was coming to look on men and women as fellow-survivors: well-dissemblers of their woes, who, with few signals of grief, had contained, assimilated, or put to use their own destruction. Of those who had endured the worst, not all behaved nobly or consistently. but all, involuntarily, became part of some deeper assertion of life. Shirley Hazzard
Filling a need is not merely good business; it's a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet that need. George Foreman
All I wanted to do was be a hero... But do I ever get to be a hero? All I ever get to be is the stupid goat!"Don't be discouraged, Charlie Brown... In this life we live, there are always some bitter pills to be swallowed..."If it's all the same with you, I'd rather not renew my perscription! Charles M. Schulz
James Herriot quote: "I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too..."
I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much? in just standing and staring. James Herriot
I have been here five days. I have decided on a place to eat in at midday, a place to eat in at night, a place to have my drink in after dinner. I have arranged my little life. Jean Rhys
For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur. Sting
Jose Saramago quote: "If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you...."
If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life. Jose Saramago
Jonathan Franzen quote: "My first hero was Thomas Edison, whose adult life had..."
My first hero was Thomas Edison, whose adult life had consisted entirely of free time. Jonathan Franzen
When he went blundering back to God, His songs half written, his work half done, Who knows what paths his bruised feet trod, What hills of peace or pain he won? I hope God smiled and took his hand, And said, "Poor truant, passionate fool! Life’s book is hard to understand: Why couldst thou not remain at school?" A poem by Charles Hanson Towne Mitch Albom

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