Quotes 121 till 140 of 4928.
-
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
-
By surrendering my life to the revolution, I found eternal life.
Revolutionary Suicide (2009) -
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
-
Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
-
Circumcision is obligatory for Jewish-born males - it must be performed on the eighth day after birth and is only postponed in the case of threat to the life or health of the child. Muslim parents also circumcise their male children.
-
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
-
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
-
Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.
-
Dealing with the fame and going from nothing and becoming something where everyone wants a piece of you, your life changes in a day.
-
Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.
-
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life.
-
Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.
The 48 Laws of Power -
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
-
Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
-
Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change.
-
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
-
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
-
Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
All real-life famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 7)
