Life Spent Quotes

35 quotes by 28 authors

The fundamental characteristic of the scientific method is honesty. In dealing with any question, science asks no favors. ... I believe that constant use of… — Ira Remsen
All your life spent getting ready for the next thing. I climbed a lot of hills now. I crossed a lot of rivers. Crossed the… — Joe Abercrombie
A life spent entirely in public, in the presence of others, becomes, as we would say, shallow. While it retains its visibility, it loses its… — Hannah Arendt
A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to… — Mary Augusta Ward
Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and… — Debbie Stabenow
You have been asked to take notice of the sayings of dying menâ€”this is mine: that a life spent in the service of God and… — Matthew Henry
Consider as sin any minute of life spent on something other than saving souls for eternity from this world doomed to destruction. — Richard Wurmbrand
Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way... — Alan Watts
A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,-by deeds, not years. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The life of a plural wife, she'd found, was a life lived under constant comparison, a life spent wondering. Sitting across from her sister-wives at… — Brady Udall
Today's mom watches her every child-rearing step lest she commit some egregious and apocalyptic parenting faux pas that will certainly doom her child to a… — John Rosemond
Date not the life which thou hast run by the mean of reckoning of the hours and days, which though hast breathed: a life spent… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature. — Annie Jump Cannon
I am old, and death inevitably approaches. But both birth and death are beyond the will of a human being. They are not my domain.… — B.K.S. Iyengar
I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be… — Charles Yu
I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion. — Oriana Fallaci
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as… — George Jean Nathan
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. — George Bernard Shaw
A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous. — Amin Maalouf
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the… — Annie Dillard

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