Quotes About Lifes Work

#1. Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work of a real person or family, people who built their lives around a promise and watched it break.

Barbara Kingsolver

#2. How terrible, Jack thought, to be old and know that your life has been wasted.

Ken Follett

#3. If a woman is a work of art, the frame is just as important as the canvas.

Chloe Thurlow

#4. It's hard to explain your passions, but sometimes it is harder to live them.

Michael Lee West

#5. You are the first President to whom the opportunity was ever offered constitutionally to inaugurate such a day. If you fail us now, you may be the last.

Jay Alan Sekulow

#6. Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.

Alfred North Whitehead

#7. If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.
Mark Twain

Tony-Paul De Vissage

#8. I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops.

Dan Gable

#9. But little Carlos's most important defense was not his good punch but rather the beginnings of a great education.

Gina Capaldi

#10. The sins we do, people behold with optics,
Which shew them ten times more than common vices,
And often multiply them.

John William Fletcher

#11. Lifes like a game of cards, sometimes you get delt a shit hand, Work with what you got, and never show your weaknesses. Keep a poker face no matter what.

Logan Zane Hessefort

#12. I'm at the mercy of others because I'm not a director. I'm not a producer. I'm not a writer.

Julianne Moore

#13. I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes.

Ken Burns

#14. People haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

Eric Hoffer

#15. Art is a step in the known toward the unknown

Khalil Gibran

#16. How the hell did people do this, this emotion-and-forgiveness thing? How did they stand these feelings? She could barely handle it and she had lovely, necessary, reason-for-living drugs to smooth over the rough spots. How did people do this shit sober?

Stacia Kane