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Life Quotes by Tom Stoppard
- If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.
- My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
- Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
- I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.
- Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.
- Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.
- My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally,…
- If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a…
- I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable,…
- Life in a box is better than no life at all, I expect. You'd have a chance at least. You could lie there thinking: Well,…
- We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by…
- Player: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life question your sitution at every turn.
- When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility…
- Comparing what we're looking for misses the point. It's wanting to know that makes us matter. Otherwise we're going out the way we came in.…
- The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to…
- If you want to change something by Tuesday, theater is no good. Journalism is what does that. But, if you want to just alter the…
- It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into…
- All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when something nudges it…
- Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life…
- My life is sectioned off into hot flushes, pursuits of this or that.
- I like dialogue that is slightly more brittle than life. I have always admired and wished to write one of those 1940s film scripts where…
- It is no light matter to put in jeopardy a single life when it is the very singularity of each life which underpins the idea…
- It is easily and often overlooked that when Thomas Jefferson asserted that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were inalienable human rights, he did…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle