A Fortunate Life Book Quotes

#1. If I begin my book with a review of the coup, it is only to show that my abiding interests for Australia did not end with it. They shall end only with a long and fortunate life.

Gough Whitlam

#2. The key to fighting isn't lack of passion, it's controlled passion. Care about winning. Care about those you defend. You have to care about something.

Brandon Sanderson

#3. The Occupy movement has drawn attention to how too many in the 1 percent get to play by their own rules while exploiting the 99 percent.

Robert Greenwald

#4. Science and technology has tried to offer an alternative to religion by making a god out of human reason, but that didn't work out too well.

Thomas Keating

#5. If you're reading this book, it means you're more fortunate than the nearly one billion people in the world who can't read, many of whom will be stuck in a life of poverty.

Anonymous

#6. I'll never forget Hurricane Katrina - the mix of a natural and a man-made catastrophe that resulted in the death of over 1,500 of our neighbors. Millions of folks were marked by the tragedy.

Cedric Richmond

#7. Sometimes we look at life from our the perspective of our own problems and in so doing, ignore how fortunate we really are. From A Matter of Perspective in the Kindle book Slices of Life by The Prophet of Life.

The Prophet Of Life

#8. There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and 'live' with the characters.

Margaret Mahy

#9. Who has magnificent self-confidence
And fears nothing that exists?
The man who has attained to truth
And lives free of error.

Dalai Lama

#10. Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.

Margaret Atwood

#11. Nothing made sense. Every decision felt wrong. Every direction I looked led down a path I was unaware about. For years I have worked toward one goal, stayed focused on one place I wanted to get. But now that goal felt like it wasn't quite right.

Nichole Chase

#12. Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means infallible. Patriotism is not necessarily included in rebellion. A man may hate his king, yet not love his country.

Samuel Johnson

#13. What Hassan i Sabbah learned in Egypt was that paradise actually exists and that it can be reached. The Egyptians called it the Western Lands.

William S. Burroughs

#14. I am fortunate to be a resemblance, rather than a replication of who I was yesterday.

Rob Martin

#15. The phrase "I have children" is always present tense. They are always with me. Even when I am by myself, I "have children.

Jim Gaffigan

#16. Castaways on the shores of loneliness

Jean-Dominique Bauby

#17. Both pure and applied science have gradually pushed further and further the requirements for accuracy and precision. However, applied science, particularly in the mass production of interchangeable parts, is even more exacting than pure science in certain matters of accuracy and precision.

Walter A. Shewhart

#18. But I'm afraid you've blotted your copybook fatally with Clara.

Louis Auchincloss