Life Can Be Taken Away In An Instant Quotes

#1. Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#2. You cannot taste a song
but you can feel the tune relishing your heart
where strings of music belong.

Munia Khan

#3. You grow up however, unfortunately, as the college years fly by, into a very exaggerated sense of your own capacities.

Donald G. Mitchell

#4. Another way to point out the true differences in men and women is that wives spell 'LOVE' 'H-O-L-D M-E'; husbands spell 'LOVE' 'S-E-X.

ScissorMan

#5. I had one or two steady girlfriends in high school, but then in college, it was three, four ... I went crazy. At one point I had three separate girlfriends, running around mad.

Robin Williams

#6. Susan laughed. I always loved the sound of her laughter. And to have caused it was worth the west side of heaven.

Robert B. Parker

#7. That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.

John Green

#8. All the good things that we have in life are on temporary loan, at best, and can be taken away from us in an instant.

Alexander McCall Smith

#9. All entertainment is education in some way, many times more effective than schools because of the appeal to the emotions rather than to the intellect.

Hortense Powdermaker

#10. I deny the power of the general government to making paper money, or anything else a legal tender.

Thomas Jefferson

#11. After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next three books in another and newer tradition: that of questioning, rather than accepting, the gendering of power as male.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#12. I think there are lots of ways to exercise ambition and accomplish things using leadership without going into elected politics. So, categorically, I have no intention of going into elected politics. None.

Chris Hadfield

#13. At the beginning he'd thought of his style as being his essence, the perfect expression of who he was inside, but lately the styles had started to feel like disguises, distractions Danny could move around behind without being seen. 27

Jennifer Egan