Life Quotes
I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.
We shall see how the counsels of prudence and restraint may become the prime agents of mortal danger; how the middle course adopted from desires for safety and a quiet life may be found to lead direct to the bull's-eye of disaster.
Bloodshed, gentlemen, no doubt is lamentable. I have seen some of it--more perhaps than many of those who talk about it with such levity. But there are worse things than bloodshed, even on an extreme scale. . . . The trampling down of law and order which, under the conditions of a civilised state, assure life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness--all this would be worse than bloodshed.
I was myself so smitten in public opinion that it was the almost universal view that my political life was at last ended.
A prodigious event had happened. The monotony of toil and of the daily round was suddenly broken. Everything was strange and new. War aroused the primordial instincts of races born of strife. Adventure beckoned to her children. A larger, nobler life seemed to be about to open upon the world. But it was, in fact, only Death.
In life's steeplechase one must always jump the fences when they come.
One must never be discouraged by defeats in one's youth, but continue to learn throughout one's whole life.
Life is a whole, and good and ill must be accepted together.
Live dangerously; take things as they come; dread naught, all will be well.
After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action.
Much might be said for and against the two-Party system. But no one can doubt that it adds to the stability and cohesion of the State. The alternation of Parties in power, like the rotation of crops, has beneficial results. Each of the two Parties has services to render in the development of the national life; and the succession of new and different points of view is a real benefit to the country.
It is part of the established technique of the "cold war" the Soviets have begun against us all, that in any country which has fallen into their power, people of character and men of heart and personality outstanding in any walk of life, from the manual worker to the university professor, shall be what is called in their savage jargon "liquidated".
Don't take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.
I don't think enjoying life is an exclusive prerogative of young people.
Life is too short not to create something with every breath we draw.
Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.
For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.
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