F. Sionil José Quotes

Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals, too, because the foul and the good all die. The past, the present, and the future-what escape is there from these? None-and yet sometimes we are life's happy victims.

F. Sionil José

• Life
• Good
• Happy
• Future
• Death
• Past
• Die
• Present
• Sad
• Suicide

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• Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.

  

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  • Security
  • Down
  • Walk

• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
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  • Children
  • Together

• The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
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• Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.

  

  E. L. James
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• Some people believe they chose homosexuality, and some believe they didn't. Who's to say one is wrong? It's not fair to generalize anyone's sexuality or walk of life.

  

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  • Life
  • Believe

• I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.

  

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  • Future
  • Never
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• Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

  

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  • Death
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• Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.

  

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  • Life
  • Live
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• No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.

  

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  • Life
  • Artist
  • Rich

• I grew up in Oregon so I grew up around reservations, so I've always kind of had this knowledge. Not a tremendous amount of knowledge, but an outsider's knowledge of what reservation life was like.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Life
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• Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• I'm not a divorce monger by any means, but if you're not happy in a relationship, and you've grown apart, it's not healthy for a couple to stay together. It's better for kids to see two happy parents than two miserable parents.

  

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  • Kids
  • Together
  • Happy

• I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.

  

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  • Life
  • My Life
  • Boxing

• The reduction in compassion that happens when we're all behind computer screens is not good for the world.

  

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  • World
  • Good
  • Compassion

• I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.

  

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  • Up
  • Important

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• Life is always sad. That's what makes suicide so tempting because life is all that we really have and haven't. Death makes us equals, too, because the foul and the good all die. The past, the present, and the future-what escape is there from these? None-and yet sometimes we are life's happy victims.

  

  F. Sionil José
  • Life
  • Good
  • Happy