Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and bought it, But God extracts the interest hour by hour.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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• You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.

  

  Francesca Annis
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  • Person
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• Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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  • Democracy
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• We're immersed in the spirit of God all the time. We just don't notice.

  

  Dan Millman
  • Time
  • God
  • Spirit

• The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

  

  E. O. Wilson
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• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.

  

  Patricia Kaas
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• Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.

  

  J. Tillman
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• I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Life
  • Death
  • Marriage

• Young players need to know how to take care of themselves for life after baseball.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Life
  • Baseball
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• God the Father and God the Son cannot be everywhere present; indeed they cannot be even in two places at the same instant: but God the Holy Spirit is omnipresent - it extends through all space, with all other matter.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • Father
  • Space

• I love talking to my friends at uni and seeing what they are doing. They're just finishing their dissertations, and I kind of wish I could live their life for a second. I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Life
  • Live
  • School

• Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Rule
  • Dichotomy

• I think it's good to live an artful life.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Life
  • Good
  • Live

• Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

  

  Irving Berlin
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  • You
  • Percent

• If I don't write, I hate myself. Simple as that. My life is out of balance.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• When you pick up a novel from the bed side table, you put down your own life at the same time and you become another person for the duration.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
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  • Up
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• The power of the ADA is that it ended up changing my life long before I ever imagined it would.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• Be greedy for social change, and your life will be endlessly enriched. The only failure lies in not trying, or giving up.

  

  Ann Cotton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Trying

• Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

  

  Pedro Almodovar
  • Life

• The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Lord

• The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • World
  • Good
  • Important

• I've seen a ghost in my bathroom with no face, this is true by the way, and I had a yo-yo that rolled up a hill in my apartment. My place is a little slanted. I have no idea how that happened.

  

  Brett Dier
  • Up
  • True

• Ah, lady! it is hardly what you thought it, This life of luxury and social power; You gave yourself as principal, and bought it, But God extracts the interest hour by hour.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Life
  • God
  • Power