Life Quotes

There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundred relatively accident-free years and I see no reason ...

Jasper Fforde

I couldn't help wondering, is my husband so unattractive that no woman has ever wanted him? Except me, of course. I must have wanted him, in a way, once, but I've forgotten why, and I was too young to know what I was choosing.

Graham Greene

Married people grow like each other.

Graham Greene

Even in forgetting there is an aspect of recollection, a faded few moments of wispy consciousness clung like webs in high-vaulted chambers, moving ever so lightly with the draft.

Life

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

Alexander Pope

While we're living, we need to get over ourselves and accept others if we want to enchant people.

Guy Kawasaki

If oppression produced saints, we’d want everyone to be oppressed.

Christopher Bram

History has been written, but it has not always been right or complete.

Life

After I lie there for a while, I realize that Dad isn't every going to do anything but be there to drive us home from the airport. And cook. And if I want something bigger to change, it's up to me. I'm scared shitless, yes. I'm doubtful, yes. But I'm...

A.S. King

Inertia. Guy’s law of enchantment: “People at rest will remain at rest, and people in motion will keep moving in the same direction unless an outside enchanter acts upon them.

Guy Kawasaki

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

Henry Adams

Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Henry Adams

In Paris and London he had seen nothing to make a return to life worth while; in Washington he saw plenty of reasons for staying dead.

Henry Adams

He felt useless and degraded, as if he no longer lived for others but for himself alone.

Bernard Werber

One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and stre...

Arthur Schopenhauer

Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy...

Arthur Schopenhauer

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

Jasper Fforde

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Aber was nennen Sie ruhig sein? Die Hände in den Schoss legen? Leiden, was man nicht sollte? Dulden, was man nicht dürfte?

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

But an action which wants to serve man ought to be careful not to forget him on the way, if it chooses to fulfill itself blindly, it will lose its meaning or will take on an unforeseen meaning; for the goal is not fixed once & for all; it is defined ...

Simone de Beauvoir

You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.

Charles Baxter