Life Curveballs Quotes & Sayings

We never intend to lose our jobs, break up with our live-in loves, or face any number of the curveballs life throws our way. But they happen all the same, so have a bailout plan just in case. Sounds corny, but I call this the 'freedom fund' because it gives you the freedom to get out of a jam without climbing into debt. — Alexa Von Tobel

Okay. Yeah. Sure." Maggie's head was spinning. She decided that what had just happened wasn't any more remarkable than Johnny himself. She couldn't think about it. It fell under the 'accept, don't question' category. She shoved the miracle into a mental drawer with all the others he had performed and locked it tight. — Amy Harmon

If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder. — Rudolf Carnap

I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through. — Jill Hennessy

That's what I'd ask you to do: Hope for peace. Because I know that I would love to be able to lay down my weapon and get to being a colonist. Just like you are. Just like I want to be. — John Scalzi

Life throws some curveballs at you and you go where it takes you. — Sophia Bush

But the part where you had to teach your kids that life could throw curveballs and you had to dig deep to find it in you to adjust was a part of that shit. — Kristen Ashley

You support me when I falter, and give me strength to bear the pain of my past. You make me laugh until I hurt, and soothe me when I'm tied up inside. It's funny how things work out, how life can throw curveballs, yet two people wind up exactly where they're supposed to be. — Kristin Miller

It gets a lot easier to deal with life's curveballs when you're not hiding under layers of fat. — Ali Vincent

I really think in life there is a lot of mystery and things we just can't understand, so your brain has to adapt. We all have to deal with the twists of fate whether they are explained or not and it's how you react in life to these curveballs that is really the measure of a man. — Larry Fessenden

The media not only fans our fears, it comforts us in our hubris. Nearly every scare story comes with a Message: You can take control. You can do something to keep bad things from happening to your children and to keep life from throwing you curveballs. — Judith Warner

Moving from radio to television, you can take most of the words with you. — Douglas Adams

My work is based on the assumption that clarity and consistency in our moral thinking is likely, in the long run, to lead us to hold better views on ethical issues. — Peter Singer

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. — George Iles

The mere fact of knowing that a great audience waits on your labor is enough to shake all your nerves to pieces. — Ignacy Jan Paderewski

I think life throws enough curveballs that you shouldn't make such a big deal out of everything. — Rebecca Romijn

I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick. — Nikita Khrushchev

There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience ... — John Owen

When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Fight to preserve these traits of civilization, that made us go forward. — Janusz Korwin-Mikke