Life Quotes

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

Barbara W. Tuchman

A salary is, to a man's employer, what his wife's vagina is to his wife: a tool used to (1) reward; and (2) control him.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Decadent cooks go one step further and make sculptures of the food itself. If life is to be spent in pursuit of the extravagant, the extreme, the grotesque, the bizarre, then one's diet should reflect the fact. Life, meals, everything must be as arti...

Medlar Lucan

You don't have to reinvent the wheel... just steel the hubcaps.

Michael P. Naughton

Nolan Bushnell, the creator of the Atari video game system, once stated, ‘Everyone who’s ever taken a shower has had an idea, It’s the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it who makes a difference.

Mark Batterson

I'm here to tell niggas it ain't all swell. There's Heaven then there's Hell niggas One day your cruisin' in your seven, Next day your sweatin', forgettin' your lies, Alibis ain't matchin' up, bullshit catchin' up Hit with the RICO, they repoed your ...

Jay-Z

Freedom of Speech has become Freedom of Stupidity on the internet. Some ignominious users should not be given a voice to comment at all.

Michael P. Naughton

Tears aren't for the people we've lost. They're for us. So we can remember, and celebrate, and miss them, and feel human.

Philip Roth

I reach up and pat them both on the head. "Poor things. If you had a boy that looked like Logan, you'd be kissing him every chance you had, too.

Philip Roth

But sometimes they all craved a little bit of danger, of excitement, of meaning, even if only to reinforce how very comfortable and secure their lives really were.

Gemma Malley

Sometimes a girl needs to be told what a guy feels, rather than trying to decipher the signs.

Hilary Grossman

Homophobia is the ignorant and arrogant assumption that copulation and reproduction is all there is to a relationship.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

disappointment is devastating, even if it’s something that you didn’t really expect to occur.

Hilary Grossman

She kept reminding me she was at a wedding, which didn’t really help my emotional state, if you know what I mean.

Hilary Grossman

Because no one needs to live for ever. I think that sometimes you can outstay your welcome.

Gemma Malley

Democracy suits Europeans today partly because it is associated with the triumph of capitalism and partly because it involves less commitment or intrusion into their lives than any of the alternatives. Europeans accept democracy because they no longe...

Mark Mazower

Political cynicism, disengagement, democratic decadence — call it what you will — is too often an excuse for physical and intellectual laziness.

Matthew Flinders

Fighting demons is what I do; real, and those in my head.

Pippa DaCosta

Sometimes, when you sleep with the enemy, waking up is the hardest part." ~ Muse

Pippa DaCosta

Did I miss the denial, anger, and bargaining phases, or did you leap straight to depression?

Kat Lowe

An event of great agony is bearable only in the belief that it will bring about a better world. When it does not, as in the aftermath of another vast calamity in 1914-18, disillusion is deep and moves on to self-doubt and self-disgust.

Barbara W. Tuchman