Quotes of: Vicarious Keyword

Failure is a great teacher; but never insist on hiring one for yourself. Learn vicariously from others' teachers.

Ashok Kallarakkal

I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

Brooke Shields

Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives . . . our vicarious way to feel alive.

Flowers in the Attic

School was my solace, and studying let me escape, allowing me to live a thousand vicarious lives.

Along for the Ride

That’s the thing about living vicariously; it’s so much faster than actual living.

Her Fearful Symmetry

We can make fun of hockey fans, but someone who enjoys Homer is indulging the same kind of vicarious bloodlust.

Steven Pinker

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

Richard Powers

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.

Ally Condie

If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.

E. L. James

Don't live vicariously through your kids or try to shape them into who you wanted to be, like the popular kid or an athlete. Children should be given the opportunity to be themselves.

Joan Cusack

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting' to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

Buck Owens

I have my own difficulty with movies in which the suffering of the characters is too real, and many find it difficult to watch comedies that rely too heavily on embarrassment; the vicarious reaction to this is too unpleasant.

Paul Bloom

Such a woman is called "Mother's FRIEND" always ready to give judicious Parental advice and living vicariously on the experience of others

Games People Play

(A murderer about their victim:) "He was an expert in vicarious death. I should like to have been there to see how he enjoyed the real thing.

Unnatural Causes

Anger precedes hate, while love vicariously hangs in the balance.

Will Love Justify Everything?: Does Love Overcome the Injustices of Life?

Mistakes are the best teachers. One does not learn from success. It is desirable to learn vicariously from other people's failures, but it gets much more firmly seared in when they are your own.

Mohnish Pabrai

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.

Mother Jones

A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with celebrity, to visions of charity and hope, to hard resolve, to redemption and moral renovation.

Lee Siegel

The central ideas of Christianity, an angry God and vicarious atonement, are contrary to every fact in nature, as also to the better aspirations of the human heart; they are, in our present stage of enlightenment, absurd, preposterous, and blasphemou...

Virchand Gandhi

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Aldous Huxley

I feel like I've come out of this grown up, maybe because I live through the character vicariously and she grows up so much during the course of this story.

Emmy Rossum