Details Of Life Quotes:

People are interested in relevant stories. In big events. But I'm not interested in big things; I'm interested in the smaller details of life.

- Sarnath Banerjee

topic: Details Of Life, People, Events, Big Events

It must not be forgotten that it is especially dangerous to enslave men in the minor details of life.

- Alexis de Tocqueville

source: Alexis de Tocqueville (2015). “Democracy In America”, p.326, Sheba Blake Publishing

topic: Men, Details Of Life, Forgotten

Most people consider themselves above the gritty and relentless details of life that allow the creation of great wealth. They leave it to the experts. But in general you join the one percent of the one percent not by leaving it to the experts but by creating new expertise, not by knowing what the experts know but by learning what they think is beneath them.

- George Gilder

source: George Gilder (2012). “Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century”, p.31, Regnery Publishing

topic: Thinking, Details Of Life, Creating

Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.

- John Stuart Mill

source: John Stuart Mill (2017). “The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Memoirs…”, p.189, e-artnow

topic: Mean, Details Of Life, Practice, Political Oppression

Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Life, Business, Simple, Life Is Complicated, Life Is Simple

I will say it's great - that Method Man - Cliff Smith - plays a rapper in a laundromat who is working out some lyrics sort of to the rhythm of a washing machine. And something about hip-hop culture and hip-hop is the ability to use current language and slang and reference details of life is very, very strong for me.

- Jim Jarmusch

source: Source: www.npr.org

topic: Strong, Men, Rapper, Details Of Life, Laundromats

But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?

- Carl Sagan

topic: Atheism, Details, Poor Planning, Details Of Life, Edifice

the new mystique is that women can have it all. There's a whole new generation of women today, flogging themselves to compete for success according to the male model - in a work world structured for men with wives to handle the details of life.

- Betty Friedan

topic: Men, Wife, Males, Details Of Life, Flogging

For Henry James, class was 'the essentially hierarchial plan of English society' which was 'the great and ever-present fact to the mind of a stranger; there is hardly a detail of life that does not in some degree betray it'.

- David Cannadine

source: David Cannadine (1998). “History in Our Time”, p.186, Yale University Press

topic: Class, Mind, Degrees, Details Of Life, English Society

Women understand that men must often be kept from soiling themselves with the dirty little details of life in order to accomplish the big shinny jobs unimpeded.

- Judy LaMarsh

source: "Memoirs Of A Bird In A Gilded Cage" by Judy LaMarsh, Ch. 3, (p. 36), 1969.

topic: Jobs, Dirty, Men, Details Of Life

Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.

- Kent Nerburn

source: Kent Nerburn (2010). “Small Graces: The Quiet Gifts of Everyday Life”, p.18, New World Library

topic: Details, Pay, Pausing, Details Of Life, Mystery Of Life

One of the most effective ways to learn about oneself is by taking seriously the cultures of others. It forces you to pay attention to those details of life which differentiate them from you.

- Edward T. Hall

topic: Details, Culture, Attention, Details Of Life, Differentiate

I began to write poetry again in 1975, when I fell in love with another woman. I returned to poetry not because I had “become a lesbian”—but because I had returned to my own body after years of alienation. The sensual details of life are the raw materials of a poet—and with that falling-in-love I was able to return to living fully in my own fleshly self.

- Minnie Bruce Pratt

source: "Minnie Bruce Pratt: Feminist Poet Describes Call To Action, Struggle To Write" By Minnie Bruce Pratt, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2011.

topic: Falling In Love, Writing, Self, Details Of Life, Living Fully

In taking the everyday details of life for granted, we fail to appreciate the extraordinary fact that we are conscious at all.

- Stephen Batchelor

source: Stephen Batchelor (2004). “Living with the devil: a meditation on good and evil”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

topic: Appreciate, Everyday, Facts, Details Of Life, Life For Granted

I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.

- Phil Collins

topic: People, Details, Details Of Life