#ten

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings? ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#anything #assert #behold #beings #blind

It's not always thankless. Let's face it - it's not always thankless. I've gotten a lot of really great recognition and I've worked with amazing people. ↗

— Kyra Sedgwick

#amazing #amazing people #face #gotten #great

When the car's going well, I purr like a kitten. ↗

— Buddy Rice

#going #i #kitten #like #purr

...I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists... ↗

— John Geddes

#life #seasons #spring #winter #life

Everything good in life is either immoral, illegal or fattening. ↗

— Nicole Richie

#illegal #immorality #lament #life #true

Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#answer #existence #human #human existence #love is

He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do. ↗

— Jack London

#potential #life

Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence. ↗

— Clarice Lispector

#language #love #life

I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life. ↗

— David Ignatow

#man #life

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden. ↗

— Mark Twain

#life