Quotes of: Life-goes-on Keyword

Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

In India, the eldest has the most responsibility and the crown goes to him. The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could 'most talent' be determined? So Indian society settled on age.

Devdutt Pattanaik

From a certain age, I sort of accepted myself for what I was. And although to other people it was like nothing ever goes right, I had a really nice attitude that I'd inherited from my parents, and especially from my dad.

Johnny Vegas

What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you're going to have enormous impact on America, that's a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day a...

Michael Bloomberg

A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, ...

Jane Harrison

She goes through the vale of death alone, each time a babe is born. As it is the right neither of man nor the state to coerce her into this ordeal, so it is her right to decide whether she will endure it.

Margaret Sanger

I really believe that the movie will never be as good as the book, both because the book goes on longer - a movie is basically an abridgment of a book - and because books are internal. But they are incredibly powerful. The visual format is, you know,...

Scott Turow

A peculiar fact about termite-tapeworm-fungus-moss art is that it goes always forward, eating its own boundaries, and, likely as not, leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.

Manny Farber

Give Happiness, Patience, kindness, and Care, and the PAIN goes away. Then only LOVE remains...

108 Ways to Grab My Apples

I guess you've got a spice of temper," commented Mr. Harrison, surveying the flushed cheeks and indignant eyes opposite him. "It goes with hair like yours, I reckon

Anne of Avonlea

It rather goes without saying that Katherine drank her coffee black. Katherines do, generally. They like their coffee like they like their ex-boyfriends: bitter.

An Abundance of Katherines

I don’t often need rescuing, but it’s nice when it goes well and doesn’t involve great heights.

The Angel's Kiss: A Melody Malone Mystery

Nothing natural could cause this kind of fear. It goes beyond a fear of physical harm and into the realm of mental and spiritual. Like the fear of losing your sanity, of losing your soul.

Angelfall

That which you manifest is before you. The visible becomes inevitable. Your car goes where your eyes go.

The Art of Racing in the Rain

Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.

The History of the Peloponnesian War

Steven dreamed of you the very second you died (So the poem goes) and you may have visited him But I'm pretty sure you don't believe in poems

Indexical Elegies

Love, it never dies. It never goes away, it never fades, so long as you hang on to it. Love can make you immortal

If I Stay

It was right and wrong both. Love does as it undoes. It goes after, with equal tenacity, joy and heartbreak.

I'll Give You the Sun

In the ghetto of Genre, anything goes, man. When you live in the gutter it doesn’t matter if you’re filthy. In theory anyway.

Rhapsody: Notes on Strange Fictions

Sabine used to maintain that preparation for a dance is comparable to what goes on in the back room of a butcher's shop: the meat for consumption is sliced and dressed and put in nice little paper packages, ready for the kitchen.

Sabine

you find yourself repeating, ‘They grow up so quickly, don’t they?’ when all you really mean is: time goes faster for me nowadays.

The Sense of an Ending