Life Quotes

One's nature is like a mountain

Hisham Matar

Most men - it is my experience - are neither virtuous nor scoundrels, good-hearted nor bad-hearted. They are a little of one thing and a little of the other and nothing for any length of time: ignoble mediocrities.

Robert Graves

There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status.

Nelson Mandela

Yes, men are pigs. Except your brother, of course. He's actually a decent human being. Almost a woman. -Jillian's mother

Gena Showalter

Cayl replies...I understand the human reproductive system, Agent Denning; I’m here to capture a killer, not indulge in these intrusive human senses.

Tielle St. Clare

Honestly—who puts a hamburger next to diet tofu curry unless they’re trying to buy your soul?

Amy Lane

SOD YOU, THEN, Death said.

Terry Pratchett

Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant 'idiot'.

Terry Pratchett

Committees kill unconventional ideas for a living.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

This is the Self-Esteem Looking-Glass. You have to look in the mirror and compliment yourself.

Malia Ann Haberman

Tomorrow is like 'there.' Once you get 'there,' it is called 'here.' So, technically, life is a set of Todays.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

An illusion threatens no one with harm. Neither can it be dispelled by armed force.

Janny Wurts

Because “we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the ant-heap. If deprived of the imagery of virtue” — imaginative depictions of the truly good life — “we will seek out the imagery of vice.

Russell Kirk

As a romantic ideal, turbulent, impoverished India could still weave its spell, and the key to it all - the colours, the moods, the scents, the subtle, mysterious light, the poetry, the heightened expectations, the kind of beauty that made your heart...

Alexander Frater

The truth is, not one of is innocent. We all have sins to confess.

C.W. Gortner

Religious fanaticism is the most dangerous form of insanity.

Robert Graves

I'm off the rails, tipping the scales, following the trail, delving into my own custom made form of outer space.

Angel M.B. Chadwick

... perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead...

Jostein Gaarder

I am waiting for the war to be fought which will make the world safe for anarchy

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Employment is slavery. Workers merely have a choice over where to serve their daily eight-hour sentence.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Somebody is born. Somebody goes to school. Somebody learns to conform. Somebody types a CV. Somebody gets a job. Somebody follows orders. Somebody gets a golden watch. And then, eventually, Somebody dies. And, a Nobody is buried.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana