Quotes of: Next-life Keyword

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.

Linda Lingle

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Bill Gates

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

Samuel Butler

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

Dolly Parton

My career keeps shifting; I keep doing the next thing and it keeps growing.

David Friedman

Time passes faster and faster, but with every project I always want to find the next challenge and the next challenge is just as exciting as the previous one.

Alexander Wang

Chet Danburry: Next time I see you, you die.

Dead Poets Society

Irma: Where are you going? Wardaddy: To take the next town. And the next one. Until you people quit.

Fury

I love Written in Red can't wait until next month when the next one comes out!!!

Ann Bishop

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Bertrand Russell

If I weren't standing next to your boyfriend, I'd be tempted to ask you out myself." She blushes, and St. Clair bounds inside the box office and wrestles her into a hug. "Miiiiiiiiine!" he says. "Cut it out." Anna pushes him off, laughing. "You'll ge...

Lola and the Boy Next Door

When I get started each day, I read through and correct the previous day's 2,000 words, then start on the next. As I reach that figure, I try to simply stop and not go on until reaching a natural break. If you just stop while you know what you're goi...

Neal Asher

When I read the 'Dick and Jane' stories, I thought they were afraid they might forget each other's names because they always said each other's names - a lot. So if Jane didn't see the dog, Dick would say, 'Look Jane, look. There is the dog next to Sa...

Jon Scieszka

This is your life. Do what you want and do it often. If you don't like something, change it. If you don't like your job, quit. If you don't have enough time, stop watching TV. If you are looking for the love of your life, stop; they will be waiting f...

The Wedding Day

When you live next to the cemetery you cannot weep for everyone.

Russian

I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected — an arrival, an explanation, an apology. There had never been one, a fact I could have accepted, were it not true that, jus...

Housekeeping

There’s a long, uncomfortable silence in which I contemplate what might happen next. Maybe like the villain in a movie, this is where she gives me a long spiel about her hard-up life before she kills me. Not that I totally believe she’s nefarious...

The Night Has Teeth

That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bet...

The Notebook

In the end it was Tabby who cast the deciding vote, as she so often has at crucial moments in my life. I'd like to think I've done the same for her from time to time, because it seems to me that one of the things marriage is about is casting the tieb...

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

Perhaps the greatest charm of tramp-life is the absence of monotony. In Hobo Land the face of life is protean—an ever changing phantasmagoria, where the impossible happens and the unexpected jumps out of the bushes at every turn of the road. The ho...

The Road