#ife

I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#blair #britain #comfortable #comfortable life #created

To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life. ↗

— Albert Finney

#deep #emotion #feels #go #into

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life #lost #reality #simplicity

In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#authoritative #belongs #conception #could #days

There's nothing tantric about my particular view on life. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#life #nothing #particular #view

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#above #angry #big #challenge #diminish

Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it. ↗

— Carly Fiorina

#difficult #felt #great #i #i can

I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends. ↗

— Colin Firth

#beatty #cast #could #extraordinary #girlfriends

I'd like to be a wife and mother. I guess I'll know Mr. Right when I meet him. ↗

— Marcia Cross

#him #i #know #like #meet

Liberalism, on the other hand, regards life as an adventure in which we must take risks in new situations, in which there is no guarantee that the new will always be the good or the true, in which progress is a precarious achievement rather than inevitability. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#adventure #always #good #guarantee #hand