Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.
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Life is about timing.
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My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incident.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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All my life, people have asked me what I was so mad about. 'Why you so mad?' And I was never mad. I'm not mad, I just look mad.
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We do hear perhaps too many accolades generally aimed at people like Steve Jobs. We have to remember that there are other classic things in life that we undervalue and take them for granted. If you think of the classic lines of the modern jet aircraft, it's really been there since early World War II.
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In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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I have a lot of different stages in my life when training has been easy or hard. Now, it seems that I have been training for so long that it has become almost second nature to me.
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I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think.
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Where there is love there is life.
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Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
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I can't imagine my life without books. My father was an electrical engineer, and my mother was a public school teacher. Books were an integral part of my childhood.
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Just because a subject is serious doesn't mean it doesn't have plenty of absurdities.
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I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
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I've had an angel on my shoulder all my life.
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Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it is whole.
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Usually, we find it difficult to control our mind. It seems as if our mind is like a balloon in the wind - blown here and there by external circumstances.
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You can't strengthen the ranks of your middle class, you can't strengthen and grow the ranks of your businesses and family-owned businesses, unless you are fiscally responsible.
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I am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of some fear, some repression. I do not believe that people would be villains, thieves, murderers and sexual criminals if they were freed from legal restraint.
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The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.
