Quotes about Experience
Moving therefore from an original center, the sexual engagements of infinite players have no standards, no ideals, no marks of success or failure. Neither orgasm nor conception is a goal in their play, although either may be part of the play.
— James Carse
The infinite player in us does not consume time but generates it. Because infinite play is dramatic and has no scripted conclusion, its time is time lived and not time viewed.
— James Carse
Books, you know, Charles, are like lobster-shells. We surround ourselves with 'em, and then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidences of our earlier stages of development.
— Dorothy Sayers
Forbear harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.
— Aesop
Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.
— Francis Collins
Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.
— Kesha
In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.
— Francis Collins
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
— Anne Lamott
Have you ever been hurt by someone you loved, Carpenter, but loved that person anyway?" "Indeed, I have." "And? Was it worth it?" "Every single time." ? Rachel Hauck, To Love a Prince
— Rachel Hauck
If you didn't miss where you've been, it didn't mean that much to you.
— Rachel Hauck
In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson