John Gay Quotes
Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; and now I know it.
John Gay
Quotes to Explore
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With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.
Walter Pater
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You aren't your work, your accomplishments, your possessions, your home, your family... your anything. You're a creation of your Source, dressed in a physical human body intended to experience and enjoy life on Earth.
Wayne Dyer
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It takes heart to be in political life.
Pat Nixon
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I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.
Sadie Frost
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My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
Samuel Barnett
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If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.
Wayne Dyer
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I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.
Karen Salmansohn
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Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
Eckhart Tolle
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Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.
Karen Traviss
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I've had an amazing life, but I think I was born with a little bit of sadness in me. I've always been attracted to those things, whether it's sad movies, sad music... when you're sad, you feel everything in a greater way than you do when you're happy.
Sam Smith
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
Samuel Butler
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
Victoria Osteen
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I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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When I sit and talk with a person, I'm not always paying attention. I'm looking at the person and saying, 'What is it about his or her life that appeals to me?'
Patricia Reilly Giff
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My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
Natalie Massenet
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Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. When you occupy it, step into it consciously, you live it.
Gary Zukav
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I have no time for the endless nostalgia: 'Oh gosh I used to . . . ' Life is too short; I don't have any time for sitting and saying I miss things. What's the point? Go and do something else.
Kate Adie
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'The Reader' is about a young man's experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that were unavoidable in her life that resulted in horrific crimes against humanity.
Kate Winslet
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There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Sometimes we need a personal crisis to reinforce in our minds what we really value and cherish. The scriptures are filled with examples of people facing crises before learning how to better serve God and others. Perhaps if you, too, search your hearts and courageously assess the priorities in your life, you may discover, as I did, that you need a better balance among your priorities.
M. Russell Ballard
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Sans la liberté de blâmer, il n'est point d'éloge flatteur; et qu'il n'y a que les petits hommes qui redoutent les petits écrits.
Pierre Beaumarchais
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We believe that the Statue of Liberty is an important symbol of freedom for our country. And as film director Martin Scorcese, who is involved in the Statue’s latest fundraising campaign, said, what is most impressive is not just what the Statue of Liberty represents for Americans but really what it represents to the whole world.
Kenneth Chenault
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Life is a jest; and all things show it. I thought so once; and now I know it.
John Gay
