We Live In Interesting Times Quotes

#1. Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#2. The old Ivy feared parental reaction from each tiny act of defiance. But the new Ivy says, "Fuck 'em all!" a sentiment that Rachel will surely appreciate. My new motto? Be who you are and own that shit-because only with true self-acceptance comes peace and joy.

B.L. Berry

#3. Human beings have the remarkable ability to turn nothing into something. They can turn weeds into gardens and pennies into fortunes.

Jim Rohn

#4. America has a critical role to play as the most powerful member of the world community.

Adam Schiff

#5. I've learned to ask people, "You're doing very well so what are you doing? Let me tell other people." So what's made me who I am, my experience.

Bernie Siegel

#6. I hear myself laughing, screeching, cackling. The world is red hot and pulsing. On fire [...] I stroll down the corridor and the flickering fluorescents celebrate my passing, humming in praise. I spin, bow and hum along. Bloody footprints trail; bloody fingers smear the walls.

Eliza Crewe

#7. May you live in interesting times and come to the attention of important people.

Eric Frank Russell

#8. We live in sexually interesting times, meaning a culture which manages to be simultaneously hypersexualized and to retain its Puritan underpinnings, in precisely equal proportions.

Laura Kipnis

#9. We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.

Suze Orman

#10. To learn that we have said or done a foolish thing, that is nothing; we must learn that we are nothing but fools, a far broader and more important lesson.

Michel De Montaigne

#11. I don't demonize the downside. As we've seen in Egypt and Tahrir square and other recent event, the adhesiveness through [technology] kinds of communication is extraordinary. Interesting times we live in.

Anne Waldman

#12. Book clubs are the best thing that has happened to the world of publishing.

Adriana Trigiani

#13. Forgiveness with kindness is the best revenge.

Debasish Mridha

#14. The poet Li Qing-jao knew the pain of regretting words that have already fallen from our lips and can never be called back. But she was wise enough to remember that even though those words are gone, there are still new words waiting to be said, like the pear blossoms.

Anonymous

#15. There is a curse.
They say:
May you live in interesting times.

Terry Pratchett

#16. Have you ever tried to get to your feet with a sprained dignity?

Madeleine L'Engle

#17. The phrase "may you live in interesting times" is the lowest in a trilogy of Chinese curses that continue "may you come to the attention of those in authority" and finish with "may the gods give you everything you ask for." I have no idea about its authenticity.

Terry Pratchett

#18. Every movie has its complexities and its challenges.

Simon Kinberg

#19. If someone is telling you to live in interesting times, they are basically telling you they want you to die horribly, and to suffer terribly before you do. Seriously, they are not your friend. This is a tip I am giving you for free.

John Scalzi

#20. There's a saying: "May you live in interesting times." To begin, it's a curse. "Interesting" in this case uniformly means "Oh god, death is raining down upon us and we shall all perish wailing and possibly on fire.

John Scalzi

#21. The Chinese say, 'It's good to live in interesting times.'

Kenneth Branagh

#22. I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.

Campbell Scott

#23. People ask me a lot about the values I got from playing for the Cubs for so many years. The value I got out of it was patience. A lot of people these days are not very patient.

Ernie Banks

#24. The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.

Francis Spufford