Boxes Quote by John Dos Passos Download Open image “Life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats.” — John Dos Passos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boxes Hands Life Life is Used
Life is a storeroom filled with boxes, some empty, some misplaced forever. We're what remains, what we've grabbed hold of. — Margaret Mazzantini Copy Share Image
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. — William James Copy Share Image
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. — William James Copy Share Image
The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well. — H.T. Leslie Copy Share Image
“Life is supposed to be used in fulfilling our individual purposes of creation” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
If someone asks me¦ what is life..? I will just come close to *You* Take your hand in my hands!! and then say! Thats… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters of theatre,… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
It's rather grisly, isnt it, how soon a living man becomes nothing more than a collection of stocks and bonds and debts and real… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The people of this country are too tolerant. There's no other country in the world where they'd allow it... After all we built up… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
When the typewriter stops in a New York office everybody's embarrassed; men start to quarrel or to make love to the stenographer or drop… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
There is a part of me in every character, naturally. That's why novelists rarely write good autobiographies. You start one and it becomes another… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The fascinating thing to a dispassionate observer about the structure of life in the Soviet Union is that in their efforts to produce an… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
To fight oppression, and to work as best we can for a sane organization of society, we do not have to abandon the state… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The best way to marginalize the Muslim Brotherhood [in Egypt] is in the ballot box, not through arrests and killing people. — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image
When I step into the batters box. The fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. — John Green Copy Share Image
I have nothing but praise for the boy. He is easily the best player in the world. His contribution as a goal threat is… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to eat is… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don't care. For me, it's really about who I surround myself… — Kesha Copy Share Image