Worthwhile Quotes

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We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that weâ€™re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers.… — Irvine Welsh
Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and itâ€™s sucked every second so far, it probably isn't going… — Doug Stanhope
Tr...ooooo...luv...' Fezzik grabbed onto Inigo in panic and they both pivoted, staring at the man in black, who was silent again. '"True love," he said,'… — William Goldman
Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out -… — Robert W. Service
Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle… — Nicholas Sparks
I donâ€™t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else… — Michel Foucault
What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not… — Muhammad Yunus
It's really going to happen. I really won't ever go back to school. Not ever. I'll never be famous or leave anything worthwhile behind. I'll… — Jenny Downham
Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irreplaceable hours brooding over grievances that, in… — Andre Maurois
Who did she know in Raleigh who took the time off to fix a house? Or read Whitman or Eliot, finding images in the mind,… — Nicholas Sparks
Drizzt Do'Urden had followed a line of precepts based upon discipline and ultimate optimism. He fought for a better world because he believed that a… — R A Salvatore
Madness is not what it seems. Time stops. All my life I've been obsessed with time, its motion and velocity, the way it works you… — Marya Hornbacher
So I didn't adopt Homer because he was cute and little and sweet, or because he was helpless and needed me. I adopted him because… — Gwen Cooper
Making a living and having a life are not the same thing. Making a living and making a life that's worthwhile are not the same… — Robert Fulghum
To think that only faultless people are worthwhile seems like an incredible exclusion of almost everything of deep value in the human saga. Sometimes I… — Marilynne Robinson
Oh, I adore to cook. It makes me feel so mindless in a worthwhile way. — Truman Capote
Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word. — Portia de Rossi
Before I start a project, I always ask myself the following question. Why is this book worth a year of my life? There needs to… — David Morrell
He chose a certain path in life, it proved to be a misguided one, but there, he chose it, he can say that at least.… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably… — Terry Pratchett

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