“In his commencement address at Kenyon College, the novelist and social critic David Foster Wallace eloquently said, “In the day-to-day trenches of… — John Mark Comer Copy Share Image
Most of us enter adult life with great ambitions for how we will start our own ventures, but the harshness of life… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
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Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life… Poets will help us to find this living… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp,… — Jocko Willink Copy Share Image
As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
My entire adult life has been devoted to family and career, each adding to the other in many rewarding ways. I have… — Sonia Levitin Copy Share Image
In the ambiguity and shifting playing field of adult life, I often wish I could just fill in a dot and have… — Rob Delaney Copy Share Image
“It's actually been more like a 50-year interruption, he thought. A boy goes out fishing and has a lot of fun, and… — Vidar Sundstol Copy Share Image
Wall Street has played a role in everyone's life, and it has been vilified by everyone, but I think that the average… — Douglas Brunt Copy Share Image
Rage-the biggest, truest rage of her adult life-had invaded her like a fever, but it wasn't like any fever she had known… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done… — Michelle Obama Copy Share Image
If you're 29, there has been no global warming for your entire adult life. If you're graduating high school, there has been… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
From the time I started teaching, when I was 21, I've always signed my name Bob Knight. My college coach called me… — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
I've spent most of my adult life in the United States, and there the celebrity culture has been entrenched for a long… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
For most of my adult life, I always had this pain in my gut, but because I had to survive, and I… — Maye Musk Copy Share Image
We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now, I meant to talk about something else earlier on, and I've forgotten what it was. I've remembered what it is again,… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
I have spent my tenure in office - and, in fact, my adult lifetime - fighting for things that I care deeply… — Bev Perdue Copy Share Image
“Survey data collected in 2008 suggested that adults collectively watched 9.8 billion hours of television over the course of a year. In… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
“And I submit that this is what the real, no-shit value of your liberal arts education is supposed to be about: How… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“But there was nothing of the southern bigot about her. On the Memphis street where Marilyn lived, there were only blacks for… — Warren G. Harris Copy Share Image
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The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this… — Jill Paton Walsh Copy Share Image
What made al-Awlaki so influential is that, unlike a number of leaders of al Qaeda such as Osama bin Laden, he was… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
I was born in a hurricane in Pensacola, Florida... my dad was in the military, so we moved all over the place.… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
At school, I decided I wanted to be a director and then I went out and spent the rest of my adult… — Stephen Daldry Copy Share Image
You get the reality checks during the course of your adult life and your career, and you realize that as good as… — Paulie Malignaggi Copy Share Image
“When he went through a cancer scare and had a benign tumor removed, his sometime friend Evelyn Waugh remarked that it was… — Thomas E Ricks Copy Share Image
For most of my adult life, I dreaded the day I woke up and saw my mother in the mirror. It never… — Jane Leavy Copy Share Image
Learning how to think" really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“This is the story of an electrically alive young woman on the brink of her adult life. An artist equally attuned to… — Elizabeth Winder Copy Share Image
I squatted for most of my adult life. I'm not condoning squatting; it was just the only way I could do what… — Jamie Hince Copy Share Image
In many ways, I went through a lot of my adult life thinking about, "What's next? What's next? What's next?," and always… — Susan Lyne Copy Share Image
“I want to tell this right. I was thirty-eight years old. I had spent my entire adult life reading meanings into other… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
I have often thought it would be a blessing if each human being were stricken blind and deaf for a few days… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Most of you, therefore, spend the bulk of your adult life searching for the “right” way to worship, to obey, and to… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
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