Homilies For Life Quotes & Sayings

I think life should be more like TV. I think all of life's problems ought to be solved in 30 minutes with simple homilies, don't you? I think weight and oral hygiene ought to be our biggest concerns. I think we should all have powerful, high-paying jobs, and everyone should drive fancy sports cars. All our desires should be instantly gratified. Women should always wear tight clothing, and men should carry powerful handguns. Life overall should be more glamorous, thrill-packed, and filled with applause, don't you think? ... Then again, if real life was like that, what would we watch on television? — Bill Watterson

Most of us, Ogu, live with a vague dissatisfaction, if we are lucky. Living as we do, upon us is imposed a particular rhythm - birth, education, a job, marriage, then birth again, but we all have minds don't we?
For most Indians of your age, just getting any job is enough. You were more fortunate for you had options before you.
These sound like paternal homilies, don't they, but you've always had surrogate parents, your aunts, and then in Delhi, your Pultukaku, and we've not really spent much time together. — Upamanyu Chatterjee

Part of my dogsbody job during the 1983 election was choosing Mum's missile-proof clothes. They had to be disposable. — Carol Thatcher

You are born to fly, and in dreams you remember the soul has wings. — Robert Moss

I think our trade policies, for many, many years, have been a disaster. They have benefited corporate America at the expense of working people. — Bernie Sanders

At a guess I see that you may indeed be he: the light silver dew brings to clothe in loveliness a twilight beauty flower. — Murasaki Shikibu

I grew up playing soccer and always loved playing it. — Wes Welker

The prejudice of Englishmen, in favour of their own government by king, lords and commons, arises as much or more from national pride than reason. — Thomas Paine

The key to liberation is within. - Each man binds himself; the fetters are ignorance, laziness, preoccupation with self, and fear. He must liberate himself, while accepting the fact that we are of this world, so that "In summer we sweat; in winter we shiver. — Bruce Lee

It was so rich and exotic I was seduced into taking one bite and then another as I tried to chase the flavors back to their source. — Ruth Reichl

I think that artworks are like these spiritual objects: I think that they have energies and powers beyond what the eye can see. — Dan Colen

She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind. — Henry Cabot Lodge