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Life Quotes - Page 479

A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.

Booker T. Washington, Victoria Earle Matthews (1898). “Black-belt Diamonds: Gems from the Speeches, Addresses, and Talks to Students of Booker T. Washington ...”

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

"Billy Crystal and John Goodman Talk MONSTERS UNIVERSITY, the Mike/Sulley Friendship, and Creating Younger Versions of the Characters". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 3, 2013.

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

"Amanpour" with Hala Gorani, www.cnn.com. January 21, 2014.

Sex is God's joke on human beings.

Bette Davis (2017). “This 'n That”, p.43, Hachette UK

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.

Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.377, Delphi Classics

We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity.

Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

Athol Fugard (2000). “Port Elizabeth Plays”, p.27, Oxford Paperbacks