Quote by Jean Toomer
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself ac

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. – Jean Toomer

Other quotes by Jean Toomer
Other Quotes from
Wish, Wishes, Wishing
category

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. – Jean De La Bruyere

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for. – Johann von Goethe

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better. – Claudius

Random Quotes

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then dont remember me at all. – Laura Ingalls Wilder

Category:
Sympathy

I dont think its too hippie to want to clean up the planet so you dont wind up dying of some kind of cancer when youre 45 years old. It enrages me that these big cancer-research organizations cant be bothered to man the front lines of environmental protest. – Jello Biafra

Category:
environmental

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work. – Camille Paglia

Category:
Home

As an actor, you have an accumulated knowledge base. But theres also something about it that every time you really feel like youre doing it for the first time you have no idea whether youre capable of it. – Brit Marling

Category:
Knowledge