Quotes About Arriving Safely

#1. Life is not a journey to the grave With the intention of arriving safely in a well-preserved body, But rather to skid in sideways Thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow, what a ride!

Duff McKagan

#2. I married somebody who likes the way I look. If I changed my hair every year, and I reinvented myself in time-honoured pop fashion, I think understandably the person I'm married to would grow slightly sick of me.

Robert Smith

#3. I've never been afraid of big moments. I get butterflies.. I get nervous and anxious, but I think those are all good signs that I'm ready for the moment.

Stephen Curry

#4. There's nothing like watching Dr. Oz and working out at the same time; you feel like you're the healthiest human being on the planet.

Lecy Goranson

#5. You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat would probably be killed, though it can fall safely from the eleventh story of a building, a man is broken, a horse splashes.

John B. S. Haldane

#6. Watches are the only jewelry men can wear, unless you're Mr. T.

Gordon Bethune

#7. Saying you just want your kid to be happy puts enormous pressure on the child. They feel if they're not happy, they're failing. Periods of unhappiness are okay and our kids need to know that; it's the struggle that makes you who you are.

Julie Lythcott-Haims

#8. After all, the male ego was a horrible thing.

Robert Dunbar

#9. It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.

Neil Jordan

#10. Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.

Aldous Huxley

#11. The two of them had a strange chemistry, like ammonia and bleach.

Molly Harper

#12. He had the saffron robes, the shaved head, and that mellow spiritual way of talking that let you know here was a guy who had truly achieved a rare state of inner with-it-ness.

Brad Warner

#13. Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.

Judith Viorst

#14. From an analytic point of view, the only thing one can be guilty of is having given ground relative to one's desire (Seminar 7, 319)

Jacques Lacan