Life Curves Quotes

#1. When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged with energy - as Faraday saw the stresses surrounding magnets and currents as curves in space; or as Van Gogh saw vortices in the skies of Provence.

Arthur Koestler

#2. Every road has unexpected curves. We can allow them to interrupt our journey, while wishing they weren't there. Or, we can make adjustments, while all along continuing to move ahead. Ultimately, the choice is ours.

Charles F. Glassman

#3. I don't always have a five-year plan. One thing you must do in life is keep your learning curve as high as possible.

Yo-Yo Ma

#4. Light is my inspiration, my paint and brush. It is as vital as the model herself. Profoundly significant, it caresses the essential superlative curves and lines. Light I acknowledge as the energy upon which all life on this planet depends.

Ruth Bernhard

#5. You may have a plan, but life throws you curve balls. Put God first; his plan is better anyway.

Lisa Vidal

#6. There is something particularly special and personal about the circle and how its curves comfortably rule every aspect of our lives.

Kat Lahr

#7. You really can't prepare for anything in life. The second you know what's going to happen, there's always a curve ball, so I'm just chillin', cruising along for the ride.

Shailene Woodley

#8. Your true power lies in how you respond to life's curves. Your best choice of course ... is to always keep your joy

Timothy Pina

#9. Flowers spring to blossom where she walks
The careful ways of duty;
Our hard, stiff lines of life with her
Are flowing curves of beauty.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#10. When I touched her body,
I believed she was God.
In the curves of her form
I found the birth of Man,
the creation of the world,
and the origin of all life.

Roman Payne

#11. A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

Oscar Wilde

#12. Every Black woman in America lives her life somewhere along a wide curve of ancient and unexpressed angers.

Audre Lorde

#13. A flawless cup: how delicate and fine The flowing curve of every jewelled line! Look, turn it up or down, 'tis perfect still
But holds no drop of life's heart-warming wine.

Henry Van Dyke

#14. Life should be a risk. It's more than a straight line that you can see clearly from one point to the other. It dips and curves and you never know what's around the bend sometimes until you get there. That scares a lot of people. But that's the beauty of it.

Katie Kacvinsky

#15. Why should I care about keeping my life on a perfectly straight course when it kept throwing wild curves at me?

R.S. Grey

#16. She had fouled off of the curves that life had thrown at her.

W.P. Kinsella

#17. Look, life is only comprehensible through a thousand local gods ... spirits of certain trees, of certain curves of brick walls, of certain fish and chip shops if you like. And slate roofs, and frowns in people, and slouches ... I'd say to them, Worship all you can see, and more will appear ...

Peter Shaffer

#18. Being strong doesn't mean you can't be soft. Working hard to meet your goals doesn't mean you can't live. And living a certain way your entire life doesn't mean you can't ever change. Life is fluid. The only way to run yourself ashore is to not follow the change and contour of the curves.

Laurel Ulen Curtis

#19. In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

#20. What distinguishes people with an extraordinary character from the rest of us is how they respond when life sends one of its inevitable curves.

Robin S. Sharma

#21. If you know the road is steepy with many potholes and curves ahead, you will be informed to drive the car at a required speed. Knowledge is a guide you need to make choices in life.

Israelmore Ayivor

#22. When you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old you shield her because she's too old to understand - or to have any more understanding inflicted upon her. The curve of life goes: want to know, know, don't want to know.

Allison Pearson

#23. Life is graded on the curve. It's not how big you are, how strong you are, how smart you are. It's how good you are at the things that count relative to the people around you.

Robert H. Frank

#24. Highly effective people tend to be proactive. They decide to find a better job or to have better health, rather than of responding to whatever curves life throws at them.

Stephen Covey

#25. Every time I write these words they become a taboo,
Making sure my punctuation curve, every letter here's true,
Living my life in the margin, and that metaphor was proof.

Kendrick Lamar

#26. There will always be some curve balls in your life. Teach your children to thrive in that adversity.

Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe

#27. I have a theory in life that there is no learning. There is no learning curve. Everything is tabula rasa. Everybody has to discover things for themselves.

Seymour Hersh

#28. Her life was one endless loop that she raced around, with steep banked curves so she could never change or slow down. It just delivered her back to herself, over and over and over.

Chris Cleave

#29. If you know anything about me, you know that my life's taken a few unexpected curves and crashes along the way. But hey, at least I can say I took the scenic route!

Naomi Judd

#30. You have to hold on to what you find because life has a way of throwing you curve balls that you never expect.

Cristin Milioti

#31. Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan

Aleister Crowley

#32. Business, like life, is funny. We all go through difficult times, and we all have to face curve balls and challenges, each and every week. And we need to laugh when things are funny.

Ronnie Apteker