Defocused Living Quotes

#1. I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. We're basically loners. If I didn't have the kids, I'd be alone a lot, and I'd be okay with that. I don't need to be entertained by people. I want my space, so I understand you feeling trapped.

Bijou Hunter

#3. He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear
His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear:
And you all know, security
Is mortals' chiefest enemy.

William Shakespeare

#4. I once met a man who was paranoid about dying, so i shot him

Mark Brandon Read

#5. Let those who love me follow me'Cora Pearl, on being the very first person to dye her hair red in 1864

Cora Pearl

#6. I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.

Kenneth Williams

#7. Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.

Baltasar Gracian

#8. A portrait,' she had said, 'should be that of a person who was breathing at the time it was painted.It should capture one of those breaths.

Amy Tan

#9. The modern woman's a mess of contradictions that they lay on themselves that drives them nuts.

David Foster Wallace

#10. What do the dice say?"
Dice say nothing. They are dice."
Why roll'em, then?"
They are dice. What else would I do with them?

Joe Abercrombie

#11. When I feel the weight of the world on my shoulders, I LIFT IT!

Emma Daley

#12. Thanksgiving speaks in clear, crisp tones of forgotten terms, like integrity - bravery - respect - freedom - discipline - sacrifice - godliness.

Charles R. Swindoll

#13. My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I was not cut out to be a wife.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

#14. All great art is revolutionary because it touches upon the reality of man and questions the reality of the various transitory forms of human society.

Eric Hoffer