Vegetating Quotes

#1. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

Mark Twain

#2. I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.

Joseph Wambaugh

#3. 'I think you ought to go to New York or Chicago or San Francisco or any city with character and vitality. You should go to work. This place is no good for you, Randy. The air is like soup and the people are like noodles. You're vegetating. I don't want a vegetable. I want a man.' - Lib McGovern

Pat Frank

#4. What would be really difficult is to be sitting on a beach. There's vacations, and there's vegetations. I don't do well vegetating.

Kim Cattrall

#5. Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has.

Swami Vivekananda

#6. To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.

Mark Twain

#8. I won't say that writing is therapy, but for me, the act of writing is therapy. The ability to be productive is good for my mental health. It's always better for me to be writing than vegetating on some couch.

Raymond E. Feist

#9. Beauty of scene; stateliness of movement; sweetness of sound - these are the graces that seem to reward the mind that seeks enjoyment purely for its own sake.

Virginia Woolf

#10. They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I like a challenge

George Galloway

#11. If you come with mercy but not justice; that's called enabling.

Dave Ramsey

#12. I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person.

Ashton Kutcher

#13. Even decent people can have awful friends.

Anna Jarzab

#14. God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were.

Henry Ward Beecher

#15. ...it would be a lie to describe the experience as anything less than exhilarating, the repulsive going hand in hand with the wondrous.

Caitlin Doughty

#16. The road to victory is paved with emotional intentions.

Drew Westen

#17. Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.

Lev Grossman