Lifeordebt Quotes & Sayings

My understanding of this life is that you tour and play for years and years, have some longevity and a steady career. That may sound boring, but I always thought that was less depressing than being a one-hit wonder. — Teddy Thompson

As a little girl in Arizona, none of the women in my family had a cultural connection with Girl Scouts, but the opportunity resonated with my mother as a platform that would allow me to excel in school. — Anna Maria Chavez

The meaning of religious truth is hope — Andrei Tarkovsky

I reckon it is up to us to treat each other better than the Lord do, and teach Him a lesson. — G.B. Edwards

It was a night when sorrow may come to the brightest without causing any great sense of incongruity: when, with impressible persons, love becomes solicitousness, hope sinks to misgiving, and faith to hope: when the exercise of memory does not stir feelings of regret at opportunities for ambition that have been passed by, and anticipation does not prompt to enterprise. The — Thomas Hardy

Staying motivated in business is really less about what you hear and think, and more about what you do and achieve. — Kevin J. Donaldson

Its not often a true friend comes around — E.B. White

He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions. — James Hogg

As every married person here knows, love is a rotten substitute for respect. — Kurt Vonnegut

If we could, and we must, establish a deep long abiding relationship with nature, with the actual trees, the bushes, the flowers, the grass and the fast moving clouds, then we would never slaughter another human being for any reason whatsoever. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

It would become hard to explain, later on in her life, just what was okay in that time and what was not. You might say, well, feminism was not. But then you would have to explain that feminism was not even a word people used. Then you would get all tied up saying that having any serious idea, let alone ambition, or maybe even reading a real book, could be seen as suspect, having something to do with your child's getting pneumonia, and a political remark at an office party might have cost your husband his promotion. It would not have mattered which political party either. It was a woman's shooting off her mouth that did it. — Alice Munro

Auden believed that a life of such military precision was essential to his creativity, a way of taming the muse to his own schedule. "A modern stoic," he observed, "knows that the surest way to discipline passion is to discipline time: decide what you want or ought to do during the day, then always do it at exactly the same moment every day, and passion will give you no trouble. — Mason Currey

Rage, hate, shock, grief, anguish, terror, scorn, amusement, combinations of them, and nothing. — Patricia Cornwell

Their rage supplies them with weapons. — Virgil

Technology, I said before, is most powerful when it enables transitions - between linear and circular motion (the wheel), or between real and virtual space (the Internet). Science, in contrast, is most powerful when it elucidates rules of organization - laws - that act as lenses through which to view and organize the world. Technologists — Siddhartha Mukherjee