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Lives Quotes by Jeanette Winterson
- When we make a change, it's so easy to interpret our unsettledness as unhappiness, and our unhappiness as a result of having made the wrong…
- The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We…
- We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.
- There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult…
- Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but I know too…
- Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives…
- i realize that the future, though invisible, has weight. We are in the gravitational pull of past and future. It takes huge energy -speed of…
- We're here, there, not here, not there, swirling like specks of dust, claiming for ourselves the rights of the universe. Being important, being nothing, being…
- Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?
- I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an…
- The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is how we all…
More Lives Quotes
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange
- Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,… — Chinua Achebe
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of… — David Attenborough
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine
- He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. — Marcus Aurelius
- Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. — Marcus Aurelius