Life Quotes - Page 468

You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

There are two victims in every abortion: a dead baby and a dead conscience.

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down.

Your marriage is in trouble if your wife says, 'You're only interested in one thing,' and you can't remember what it is.

Music is the love of my life. It’s a total escape from reality. Music transports you to another place, someplace unexpecet and meaningful.

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington and then return to the Ivy Tower to train the next generation of egghead economic saboteurs. Life is good for left-wing academics. Everyone else pays dearly.

I persist in preferring philosophers to rabbis priests imams ayatollahs and mullahs. Rather than trust their theological hocus-pocus I prefer to draw on alternatives to the dominant philosophical historiography: the laughers materialists radicals cynics hedonists atheists sensualists voluptuaries. They know that there is only one world and that promotion of an afterlife deprives us of the enjoyment and benefit of the only one there is. A genuinely deadly sin.

It needs good management to enjoy life. I enjoy it twice as much as others, for the measure of enjoyment depends on the greater or less attention that we give to it...The shorter my possession of life the deeper and fuller I must make it.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

Play hard, work hard, love hard. . . .The bottom line for me is to live life to the fullest in the here-and-now instead of a hoped-for hereafter, and make every day count in some meaningful way and do something-no matter how small it is-to make the world a better place.

Life is about loosing, everything, gracefully

The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin's-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys forty-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. We know that they have put to use their full mental and physical powers. Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective.

Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.

Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.

I think that in a general sense, the idea of getting comfortable with the truth in life is uncomfortable.

live your life as if you may lose everything.

As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating a piece of art called your life.

Your responsibility is to be an explorer, not a tourist in this adventure that is your life.

Fifteen years ago, while I was temporarily chairing meetings of pro-life leaders, I pleaded with the angry males to say no to interviews, and instead let beautiful pro-life women become the face for the movement.

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.

I'm a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.

It is my private life which no one knows anything about, nor ever will. It needs more than half my time if it is to be a success.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.