Posts tagged “quotations”

“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
W. Somerset Maugham

“An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame–Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Every man’s life ends the same way. It’s only the details of how he lived that distinguish one man from another.”
Ernest Hemingway

We get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
Paul Bowles

“I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.”
Sir Noël Coward

A human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea.
James Agee, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.
Theodore Roosevelt

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.
Margaret Thatcher