#life

The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about. ↗

— Tucker Carlson

#abroad #boarding #boarding school #book #cia

I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together. ↗

— John Zorn

#beethoven #clear #i #influences #life

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#because #below #century #day #death

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#become #cynical #democracy #future #happen

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#behavior #cease #ceases #individual #intelligent

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body. ↗

— Shoshana Zuboff

#behavior #between #body #civilizing #distance

The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#function #life #no fear #only #secret

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#bored #could #die #find #had

Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#develop #enthusiasm #get #gusto #hobby

It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#life-and-living #art