Quotes
Quotes about Cause
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.
Life is like an onion. Why is life like an onion? Because you peel away layer after layer and when you come to the end you have nothing.
I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more that you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
The truest process of human kind and human life is to ultimatly conquer your fears and live a life worth dyeing for. Because in the end, before that final moment, is it not the moments of your life that flash before you?
The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
Don't cry because its over, smile because it happened. -Unknown.
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. -Unknown.
O, good my lord, no Latin! I am not such a truant since my coming As not to know the language I have lived in. A strnage tongue makes my cause more strnage, suspicious. Pray speak in English.
I do sing because I must, And pipe but as the linnets sing.
No. That's it. The cool name, that is. We worked very hard on creating a name that would appeal to the majority of people, and it certainly paid off: thousands of people are using linux just to be able to say "OS/2? Hah. I've got Linux. What a cool name". 386BSD made the mistake of putting a lot of numbers and weird abbreviations into the name, and is scaring away a lot of people just because it sounds too technical.
A good listener tries to understand what the other person is saying. In the end he may disagree sharply, but because he disagrees, he wants to know exactly what it is he is disagreeing with.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose? Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure? Courageous chief,The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight,Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive. - Paradise Lost.
We read poetry because the poets, like ourselves, have been haunted by the inescapable tyranny of time and death; have suffered the pain of loss, and the more wearing, continuous pain of frustration and failure; and have had moods of unlooked-for release and peace. They have known and watched in themselves and others.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body.
The philosophy exam was a piece of cakeâwhich was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
Nay, 'tis in a manner done already; For many carriages he hath dispatched To the seaside, and put his cause and quarrel To the disposing of the cardinal; With whom yourself, myself, and other lords, If you think meet, this afternoon will post To consummate this business happily.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. - The Man in the Water, 1994.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
