![Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.](/assets/img/quote-photos/human-life-is-a-process-of-filling-in-time-until-the-arrival-of-death-or-s.jpg)
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We didn't want them to have to recreate the wheel, ... In our eyes, Garrett saved Brennan's life because of the things that we've learned. Kevin Bardsley
life art cells
The mind is the seat of perception of the things we see, hear, and feel. It is through the mind that we see the beauties of the earth and sky, or music, of art, in fact, of everything. That silent shuttle of thought working in and out through cell and nerve weaves into one harmonious whole the myriad moods of mind, and we call it life. Charles Fillmore
life-changing night ill-will
Here is a mental treatment guaranteed to cure every ill that flesh is heir to: sit for half an hour every night and mentally forgive everyone against whom you have any ill will or antipathy.
life art thought-provoking
To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art. Charles Bukowski
life hipster people
Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
life sunset thought-provoking
If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
life truth kind
Life's as kind as you let it be.
life odds laughing
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
life crazy people
Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
long feelings weight
So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it. John Stuart Mill
long support population
If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger, but not a happier or a better population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it.
long waiting make-sense
If you're gonna wait for the universe to start making sense, you have a long wait ahead of you. John Sheridan
long tourists south
As long as there are Japanese tourists, there will be a market for the Old South. John Shelton Reed
long hollywood lost
Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago. John Ratzenberger
long useless seems
Taking a long time to do something not worth doing, that is, doing it inefficiently, seems even more useless. John Perry
long way satisfaction
I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God. John Piper
long joy world
The world says of marriage: A short joy and a long displeasure. But he who understands it finds in it delight, love, and joy without ceasing. Martin Luther
long preacher preaching
I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching.
waiting advice yards
Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself. Morris Gleitzman