A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life--what people are interested in. That's journalism.
– Burton Rascoe
A person has three choices in life. You can swim against the tide and get exhausted, or you can tread water and let the tide sweep you away, or you can swim with the tide, and let it take you where it wants you to go.
– Andrew Schneider
A predetermined destiny does not exist; when a man is born, his life is open to all the possibilities; in other words, potentially, man has infinitely different destinies! All destinies are his probable destiny!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.
– Kurt Vonnegut, Sirens of Titan
A resurrection waits in the future of all people, whether saved or lost, kingdom saints or the Body of Christ. 'Marvel not at this for the hour is coming, in which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, and come forth they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation' (Jn. 528, 29).
– Vernon Schutz
A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
– Camille Paglia
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.
– George Santayana
A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
– Dan Rather
A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.
– Walter Lippman
A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.
– Thomas Carlyle
A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.
– William Arthur Ward
A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
– Oscar Wilde
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Abiding happiness is not simply a possibility, but a duty all may live above the troubles of life worry is a poison and happiness is a medicine.
– Newell Dwight Hillis
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
– Rita Mae Brown
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
– Ayn Rand
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
– Marlon Brando
Actions have consequences...first rule of life. And the second rule is this - you are the only one responsible for your own actions.
– Holly Lisle
Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply To the day to day obstacles of life - Facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, Testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, Discovering our own unique potentional.
– John Amatt
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
– Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
Advertising is the most potent influence in adapting and changing the habits and modes of life affecting what we eat, what we wear, and the work and play of a whole nation.
– Calvin Coolidge
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
– Evelyn Underhill
After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.
– Author Unknown
After the bare requisites of living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone, or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who scribbles on a wall to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do.
– John Steinbeck, The Pastures of Heaven, p 56
