Life Only Avails Quotes

#1. Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

Jose Marti

#2. Finding myself a nice and likeable character is a complete change.

Nicholas Young

#3. Love abounds in all things, excels from the depths to beyond the stars, is lovingly disposed to all things. She has given the king on high the kiss of peace.

Hildegard Of Bingen

#4. The value of culture is its effect on character. It avails nothing unless it ennobles and strengthens that. Its use is for life. Its aim is not beauty but goodness.

W. Somerset Maugham

#5. To avoid a repeat of this near disaster, the Council of Genres took the only course of action open to them to ensure TGC would be too inefficient and unimaginative to pose a threat. They appointed a committee to run it.

Jasper Fforde

#6. Well, I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song.

Nick Hornby

#7. When you win a Grammy, it links a certain prestige and importance to you, you know? People want to talk to you.

Stanley Clarke

#8. Spooner noticed another, smaller Marine Corps tattoo encircling Marlin's ankle: Semper Fi Forever. Everywhere he went these days, Spponer witnessed America's crying need for more copy editors.

Pete Dexter

#9. A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light. Concealment avails him nothing; boasting nothing. There is confession in the glances of our eyes; in our smiles; in salutations; and the grasp of hands.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

Thomas Carlyle

#11. Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep,
Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.

Alexander Pope

#12. Life only avails, not the having lived.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. I don't want to believe my own hype.

Christina Aguilera

#14. For church buildings not to be enough is to build and equip church members to send them out

Sunday Adelaja

#15. If i knew my life would turn out this way, i would of killed myself a long time ago.

Billy Bob Thornton

#16. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she said, "who stole my song and got a hit out of it?

Nina Simone

#17. If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

Abu Bakr