Life Class Quotes

A petty person often misses out on what is pretty in life. ~ Gift Gugu Mona

No state has hitherto existed (at least that we have any account of) ... that no check whatever has existed to early marriages, among the lower classes, from a fear of not providing well for their families, or among the higher classes, from a fear of lowering their condition in life. ~ Thomas Malthus

The working class and the employing class have nothing in common. There can be no peace so long as hunger and want are found among millions of working people and the few, who make up the employing class, have all the good things of life. ~ Industrial Workers Of The World

We in the Western world suffer from too many categories and classes; we've forgotten that we all still have diapers on. We've separated music from life. ~ Ornette Coleman

There's no race, no religion, no class system, no color - nothing - no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We're all deserving of love. ~ Sandra Bullock

A sensual lifestyle is an expression of your highest sense of self worth. ~ Lebo Grand

You cannot build your own house, while busy destroying your neighbour's. ~ Gift Gugu Mona

For the better part of my life, I was always trying to manufacture somehow what I would consider 'living.' Because I grew up sort of upper-middle class and I didn't relate so much to that as a life, and I wanted to really find 'living.' ~ Alex Ebert

Forgive those who wronged you, but don't forget the lessons they taught you. ~ Gift Gugu Mona

It's always wonderful when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police. ~ Ludwig Bemelmans

Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school. ~ John Knowles

I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction. ~ Pat Barker

In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at. ~ Ebon Moss-Bachrach

The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life. ~ Thorstein Veblen

The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class. ~ Ernest Mandel

Life is abysmal hilarious if you have the eyes to see. ~ Stefan Emunds

Consistent action breeds satisfaction or frustration; either one or both are key ingredients for growth. ~ Kayambila Mpulamasaka

Love. It's the complex chemistry of a blind heart and a distracted mind. Love is a shapeshifter. Love walks along the same path as hate. Love makes us whole. Love makes us weak. Love drives us to insanity. Love can be a curse. Love is a miracle. ~ Julie Anderson

I've only fucked seven guys in my whole life
But I've watched more porn than you ever will
Hours and hours ~ Dorothea Lasky

The whistling dawn, the sussurration of the leaves, a honking goose, and then a sentimental confab at the Solid Rock Gospel Church with a wounded soul who poured his heart out to Press precisely because he was blind and therefore harmless. Since these individuals had no money, he couldn't give them financial advice, just wholehearted sympathy. As at the commune, a toddler might scramble into his lap, and while he petted the child its mother held a cookie to its mouth and another one to his to bite and chew.
A world worth living in and for. ~ Edward Hoagland

Regardless of where many of us believe we land - in that field encumbered by not too much baggage or entirely too much - we all come from the same place, which is a road rutted by experience so banal, nearly remarkable, that memory tricks us into remembrance of it again and again, as if experience alone were not enough. What are we to do with such a life, one in which we are not left alone to events - love, shopping, and so forth - but to the holocaust of feeling that memory, misremembered or not, imposes on us? ~ Hilton Als

Cover them over with beautiful flowers, Deck them with garlands, those brothers of ours, Lying so silent by night and by day Sleeping the years of their manhood away. Give them the meed they have won in the past; Give them the honors their future forcast; Give them the chaplets they won in the strife; Give them the laurels they lost with their life. ~ Will Carleton

Ethan's voice was choked. "I realize now, what my father felt. When I left home. He must have felt as if everything was ending. That everything he knew was finishing. I wasn't even aware of what he was going through, how it felt for him. I was so caught up in the excitement of moving out and having a job that would buy me a car. I was so eager to leave. His heart was breaking, and I totally missed it. I was completely unaware that his whole world was changing too. But for him it wasn't gaining, it was losing. He was losing part of himself. The part of his life that had focused on me and my mother for seventeen years was ending, and I never even noticed."

For a moment, Leo thought Ethan was about to ask him to stay. If he does, I will, Leo thought.

Ethan took a deep breath. "But hard as it is. It can't be stopped. Can't be sidestepped. No matter how much we want to or how fearful the future looks, we can't stay frozen in place. You can go forward or you can try to hold on. I've seen people that were afraid to let go, that never committed to their life. You can feel the desperate regret emanate from them. They know they missed something, but instead of jumping on the next train, they keep looking back for the one they missed. ~ Tom Deaderick

When I was in school, in eighth grade, someone recognized something in me. She was an English teacher, and we read a play out loud in class, and she asked me to read one of the roles. I'd never done anything like that before, but something just lit up. ~ David Morse

But it's a curse, a condemnation, like an act of provocation, to have been aroused from not being, to have been conjured up from a clot of dirt and hay and lit on fire and sent stumbling among the rocks and bones of this ruthless earth to weep and worry and wreak havoc and ponder little more than the impending return to oblivion, to invent hopes that are as elaborate as they are fraudulent and poorly constructed, and that burn off the moment they are dedicated, if not before, and are at best only true as we invent them for ourselves or tell them to others, around a fire, in a hovel, while we all freeze or starve or plot or contemplate treachery or betrayal or murder or despair of love, or make daughters and elaborately rejoice in them so that when they are cut down even more despair can be wrung from our hearts, which prove only to have been made for the purpose of being broken. And worse still, because broken hearts continue beating. ~ Paul Harding

The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When the Warrior takes on a commitment, he keeps his word. ~ Paulo Coelho

Most people who know me know I'm not switched on all the time. I don't like to be like that in real life, because it's draining. ~ Rebel Wilson

I'm just opening the doors. And a lot of this is new to me - thinking about it, and letting go again and again and again, trusting that if I'm meant to continue working as a musician, it'll happen. If I'm not, then pull out the life support. ~ Jane Siberry

Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to. ~ Mike Krzyzewski

I only allow that which is good into my life. No one can depress you. No one can make you anxious. No one can hurt your feelings. No one can make you anything ... other than what you allow! ~ Wayne Dyer

I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV. ~ Phillip Lim

For every quote, there is one that challenges it. ~ R. Alistair

In the real journey of life, it is not what you do; it is what you don't do that matters the most. ~ Harshit Walia

My path, my life, my career has really been a journey from moving from, in a sense, darkness to light. From pain to joy through the experience of yoga and meditation. It's an ongoing adventure that's unfolding every day. ~ MC Yogi

My friends tend not to style me, fortunately. But if we're in a public setting, they must do it there. Of course, there has been a maturing process for me and for them. But such is my life. I'm very comfortable with both the role and the life I live in relation to my nearest and dearest. ~ Mette-Marit, Crown Princess Of Norway

If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it's not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fun and you aren't jealous of others. You see other people's talent as another branch of your own. You can keep it rooted in joy. Life is long and there are plenty of opportunities to make mistakes. The point of it all is to learn. ~ Ethan Hawke

I've been so lazy all my life. I used to literally lie on the couch, up until the age of 35, fearing that my bones were dissolving like sugar cubes, from disuse. ~ Guy Maddin

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

Tennis has given me this wonderful life and I'm very grateful for it. ~ Maria Sharapova

There is a subtle danger in a man thinking that he is "fixed" for life. It indicates that the next jolt of the wheel of progress is going to fling him off. ~ Henry Ford

'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music. ~ Yelawolf

Enjoying life is far superior to being graded on your performance in life. ~ Wayne W. Dyer

All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning. ~ Imtiaz Ali

Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Sometimes in life we must slowly distant ourselves from people and places we feel unconformable. Don't feel bad feel freedom. ~ Ron Baratono

Death's a fable. Did not Heaven inspire your equal Elements with living Fire blown from the Spring of Life? Is not that breath Immortal? Come; ye are as free from death as He that made ye: Can the flames expire which he kindled? ~ Francis Quarles

It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases. ~ Hilary Mantel

The difficulties of life should not distract you from the pursuit of your goals. Graciously pursue your goals. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

He realized that for Ponge there was no division between the work of writing and the work of seeing. For no word can be written without first having been seen, and before it finds its way to the page it must first have been part of the body, a physical presence that one has lived with in the same way one lives with one's heart, one's stomach, and one's brain. Memory, then, not so much as the past contained within us, but as proof of our life in the present. If a man is to be truly present among his surroundings, he must be thinking not of himself, but of what he sees. He might forget himself in order to be there. And from that forgetfulness arises the power of memory. ~ Paul Auster

Who that prohibits two people who have different views about God to love each other? ~ CG9sYXJhZGl0aWE=

Your life takes on a different meaning when you break your own heart. ~ Heidi McLaughlin

The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life. ~ Oprah Winfrey

No way," I tell her. "Once was enough for me." And I mean it, though it has nothing to do with Paul and his blue eyes, and everything to do with how very, very tired I am with this hidden battle for my own thoughts, the burden of counting, the work it takes to hide it. The Djinn hates it when I'm adrift in the world, trying to live my life; he prefers me anchored to my home, where I can feed his need for numbers without fear of discovery. ~ Hanna Alkaf

You are only given one life, one chance at fully living it ... take risks, believe in your dreams, explore the world and her people, live out loud! ~ Danell Lynn

But I tell you, nothing is pointless, and nothing is meaningless if the artist will face it. And it's his business to face it. He hasn't got the right to sidestep it like that. Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist - the only thing he's good for - is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. Even if it's only his view of a meaning. That's what he's for - to give his view of life. Surely, we understand very little of what is happening to us at any given moment. But by remembering, comparing, waiting to know the consequences, we can sometimes see what an event really meant, what it was trying to teach us. ~ Katherine Ann Porter

I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it. ~ LeBron James

The first of 'Goose's Two Laws of Survival.' It runs thus, 'The weak are meat the strong do eat.' " ... Henry grinned in the dark & cleared his throat. "The second law of survival states that there is no second law. Eat or be eaten. That's it. ~ David Mitchell

The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate. ~ Edward De Bono

By not replying to the stupid, you can save so much time in your life! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

The compass represents spirituality, no end and no beginning ... the ruler represents 'tangible evidence' ... a measurable event ... both coming together shall represent a Human Being ... the intersection of life and consciousness ... ~ Tom DeLonge

The church is about life-giving relationships that come together in gatherings. When we gather, we don't primarily assemble in the style of the synagogue: to learn, to receive, to evaluate, and to contemplate. Rather, we assemble in the style of the temple: to worship, to pray, to encounter God, and to bring our offering. We come as living stones, fitted together in the house of God as a collective dwelling place. ~ Mark Perry

Failures are part of life lessons.
Keep trying no matter how many times you fail. You will one day succeed. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Depravity and decadence are two sides of the same coin. ~ Manoj Vaz