deep quotes about love and life

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. ~Flannery O'Connor



Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. ~Franz Kafka



Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. ~Mark Twain



We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work. ~John F. Kennedy



A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. ~Francis Bacon, Essays, 1625



All of us learn to write by the second grade, then most of us go on to other things. ~Bobby Knight, on reporters



To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death. ~Pearl S. Buck



No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. ~Terry Pratchett



Caring is the essence of nursing. ~Jean Watson



Women always worry about the things that men forget; men always worry about the things women remember. ~Author Unknown



What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility. ~George Levinger



Baseball statistics are like a girl in a bikini. They show a lot, but not everything. ~Toby Harrah, 1983



Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. ~Charles M. Schulz



Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life. ~Henry L. Doherty



Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail. ~Henry David Thoreau



I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day. ~Abraham Lincoln



Today's world is one in which the age-old risks of humankind - the drought, floods, communicable diseases - are less of a problem than ever before. They have been replaced by risks of humanity's own making - the unintended side-effects of beneficial technologies and the intended effects of the technologies of war. Society must hope that the world's ability to assess and manage risks will keep pace with its ability to create them. ~J. Clarence Davies, quoted in Conservation Foundation, State of the Environment: An Assessment at Mid-Decade, 1984



When brothers agree, no fortress is so strong as their common life. ~Antisthenes



Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living. ~Jean Kerr



Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting. ~Author Unknown