Bette Greene Quotes
Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.Bette Greene
Quotes to Explore
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
Sam Brownback -
I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
Olivia Newton-John -
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.
Dan Brown -
We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.
Edgar Ramirez -
My father was in Congress when I was born. He was mayor my whole life from when I was in grade school - first grade - to when I went away to college.
Nancy Pelosi -
A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
Walter Hagen -
It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
Jack Prelutsky -
I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.
Gary Busey -
The biggest privilege I've had in my life is being able to make a choice. If you make a choice, it can't be a wrong choice because it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Francesca Annis -
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E. M. Forster
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There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say: 'Enough is enough.'
Lance Armstrong -
Genius borrows nobly. When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors, Landor replies: 'Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life'.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I've been a Democrat my whole life. That's what makes Maude and Dorothy so believable, we have the same viewpoints on how our country should be handled.
Bea Arthur -
I thought my life would be different somehow I thought my life would be better by now But it's not, and I don't know where to turn
Aimee Mann -
But now if I can wrap myself up in that song, and when that song gets to be a part of me, and affects me emotionally, then the emotions that I go through, chances are I’ll be able to communicate to you. Make the people out there become a part of the life of this song that you’re singing about. That’s soul when you can do that.1
Ray Charles -
I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.
Emmanuelle Beart
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I can't remember how old I was, maybe 13, 14, and to see these fellows and hear their stories and to see life come to such a drab ending - my God, a poorhouse in those days was something. You would have to be inert not to respond to it.
James A. Michener -
When I went to prep school in New York City, I had to ride the subway and learned how to do homework on the train. I can work and read through anything.
Alan Furst -
There are songs where no matter how much you know you shouldn't - like the Ying Yang Twins' 'Shake' - I'll be in a dress, and I'll krump to it. It's horrible!
Anna Chlumsky -
As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
Francis Bacon -
'But to be hanged-is that not unendurable?' Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.
Epictetus -
Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.
Bette Greene