Andre Comte-Sponville Quotes
All trips end eventually. Is that any reason to renounce undertaking one and enjoying it? You only live once. Is that any reason to spoil the single life you do have?
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More than once, I've wished my real life had a delete key.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
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When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
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If I don't fight McGregor, I still have a good life.
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After a decade in public life working to stop Iran from ever acquiring nuclear weapons, I cannot support a deal giving Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief - in return for letting it maintain an advanced nuclear program and the infrastructure of a threshold nuclear state.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.
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Kubrick's films have life - they just never die.
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My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
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My life really began when I married my husband.
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I consider myself a D.I.Y. home improvement guy. In a prior life, I completely gutted a house - redid the plumbing, wiring, moved sewage pipes, knocked down walls, everything.
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It's the messiness of life that ultimately leads you to the most interesting things. Everyone asks what you would do over, and I don't know because then you have this story to tell, and if you did everything over and made it perfect, what would you talk about?
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There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
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Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
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Odds that you will die at some point in your life: 1 in 1. Thus, you might say the greatest, most significant, and universal risk factor in death is being born. This implies that it really isn't very helpful to approach the subject of risk by focusing on how we might die; rather, it's far wise to consider how we should live and what risk we will live with.
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The chief impression left by a study of Crowley's life and works is that he wasted an immense amount of time and energy trying to shock everyone he came into contact with, and his dislike of orthodoxy turned him into an unconsciously comic figure, like Don Quixote.
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The motive power is the cause of all life.
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I come to fight because I love to fight. It's my life.
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Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.
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There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir.
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I used to sing in the church choir. People would say it was unusual for such a small girl to have such a big voice. They would say, 'She sounds like she's grown.'
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I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.
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All trips end eventually. Is that any reason to renounce undertaking one and enjoying it? You only live once. Is that any reason to spoil the single life you do have?
