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Life Is Great Quotes (page 5)

In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished. Leland Stanford
Iain Duncan Smith quote: "Luck is great, but most of life is hard work."
Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. Iain Duncan Smith
My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what I do, and it's a great job. But it's like my alter ego. There's Chris Brown the singer. And there's Christopher Brown, the down-home Tappahannock boy that plays video games and basketball and hangs out. Chris Brown
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday. Wilma Rudolph
Henry F. Ashurst quote: "No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to..."
No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle. Henry F. Ashurst
W. Somerset Maugham quote: "The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that..."
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love. W. Somerset Maugham
he [Llewelyn Powys] has always in mind the great touchstone Death & consequently life is always judged as how far it fits us, or compensates us, for ultimately dying. Philip Larkin
My financial views are of the most decided character, but they are not likely, perhaps, to increase my popularity with the advocates of inflation. I do not insist upon the special supremacy of rag money or hard money. The great fundamental principle of my life is to take any kind I can get. Mark Twain
Namaste , Prince of Naga-loka. I'm grateful. You're a fine fellow." He stuck out his tongue and grinned wickedly. "For a royal wriggler." " Namaste , O flea-ridden tree-climber," Shesha replied, with a fond glint in his eyes. "May your life be as long as you insolence is great. Lloyd Alexander
Audrey Hepburn quote: "There is one difference between a long life & a great dinner;..."
There is one difference between a long life & a great dinner; in the dinner, the sweet things come last. Audrey Hepburn
James Joyce quote: "To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher."
To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher. James Joyce
Like the prophet Jonas, whom God ordered to go to Nineveh, I found myself with an almost uncontrollable desire to go in the opposite direction. God pointed one way and all my "ideals" pointed in the other. It was when Jonas was traveling as fast as he could away from Nineveh, toward Tharsis, that he was thrown overboard, and swallowed by a whale who took him where God wanted him to go...But I feel that my own life is especially sealed with this great sign, which baptism and monastic... Thomas Merton
There was an ache in his heart like the farewell to a dear woman; there was a vague sorrow in him like the despair of autumn. He walked past the restaurants he used to smell with interest, and no appetite was aroused in him. He walked by Madam Zuca's great establishment, and exchanged no obscene jests with the girls in the windows. Back to the wharf he went. He leaned over the rail and looked into the deep, deep water. Do you know, Danny, how the wine of your life is pouring into the fruit... John Steinbeck
Roger Zelazny quote: "Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which..."
Sleep is perhaps the only among life's great pleasures which need not be of short duration. Roger Zelazny
And, as I watched the Lincoln come by degrees to a relationship with what it saw, I understood something: the basis of life is not a greed to exist, not a desire of any kind. It's fear, the fear which I saw here. And not even fear: much worse. Absolute dread. Paralyzing dread so great as to produce apathy. Philip K. Dick

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