Anne Wilson Schaef Quotes

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to live the width of it as well.

Anne Wilson Schaef

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• I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Republic

• Most of the time, as a model, I feel like I'm just a doll. They control how I should move.

  

  Tao Okamoto
  • Time
  • Control
  • Model

• Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.

  

  Warren G
  • Work
  • Brother
  • Chance

• I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.

  

  Kaskade
  • House
  • Interesting
  • Chicago

• In seeking a lawyer, you are looking for an advocate, an expert advisor on the law and on your rights and responsibilities, a strategist, a negotiator, and a litigator.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Law
  • Lawyer
  • Looking

• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
  • Ghetto
  • Then
  • Mansions

• I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Words
  • Party
  • Government

• My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant.

  

  W. E. B. Griffin
  • Military
  • Background
  • My Own

• I may as well say it, I have been married three times.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • May
  • Married
  • Three

• I wasn't unhappy, but I was a little like: 'Is this it? Really?' I was thirsty.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Like
  • Unhappy
  • Thirsty

• All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• Liberal redistributionists in favor of heavy taxation place less weight on incentive than do small-government conservatives.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Small
  • Place
  • Liberal

• The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Wisdom
  • Wise
  • Fool

• If the scope of freedom and respect for the rule of law shrinks around the world, the likelihood of war within and between nations increases, and our own freedoms will eventually be threatened.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • War
  • Freedom

• I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners- two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Why
  • War

• Unendowed with wealth or pity, Little birds with scarlet legs Sitting on their speckled eggs, Eye each flu-infected city. Altogether elsewhere, vast Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss, Silently and very fast.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • City

• A man’s at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Mind

• There is a huge tension in trying to write with small children because they demand your attention and your time with a fierceness that can be matched by nothing else, but if you are successful in writing while you have small children, I actually think that your writing is likely to be deeper than it was before.

  

  Alexi Zentner
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Children

• Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Fashion
  • Positive
  • inspirational

• He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Age

• All my life, men have told me I wasn't pretty enough - even the men I was dating. And I'd be like, 'Well, why are you with me, then?' It's always been men putting me down just like my dad. To this day when someone says I'm cute, I can't see it. I don't see it no matter what anybody says.

  

  Lil' Kim
  • Life
  • Men
  • Why

• I love performing, and I love being in front of people. I love the pressure you get and the pleasure performing brings.

  

  Leo Howard
  • People

• I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to live the width of it as well.

  

  Anne Wilson Schaef
  • Life
  • Live
  • Width