Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quotes
It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.
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Administrator McCarthy and the EPA will soon find out that Washington bureaucrats are becoming far too aggressive in attacking our way of life. Administrator McCarthy should be apologizing to Missourians. EPA aggression has reached an all-time high, and now it must be stopped.
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For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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I gather inspiration from all aspects of my life and things I see: love, heartache, mistakes, hopes, regrets, successes and faith. And it helps to have a wild imagination.
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'Star Wars' hasn't changed my life at all.
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I have been touched by extreme violence, and I have been robbed of the life I always wanted by someone who chose to do evil.
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Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.
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Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
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I did keep detailed journals from about fifth grade on, and every so often as I was growing up, I would re-read them and reflect on the previous years of my life.
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We don't have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures - and I quote - 'hit the bottom' so the market could - I quote - 'run its course.'
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To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.
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In the game of life, before you get anything out, you must put something in!
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Keeping your private life as private as possible is the smartest thing.
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I am not this big celebrity, but it gets really crazy. You have to go through the nuts of blowing up, in a sense, and then figuring out how to live your life with that.
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I guess the argument of contextuality is that anything is okay as long as it's done by people who are sufficiently unlike you.
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The boy and girl going hand in hand through a meadow; the mother washing her baby; the sweet simple things in life. We have almost lost track of them.
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My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life.
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The things Elvis has done during his career and the things he has contributed and created are really something very important to the music business.
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One of the things the 'Tao of Travel' shows is how unforthcoming most travel writers are, how most travelers are. They don't tell you who they were traveling with, and they're not very reliable about things that happened to them.
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I enjoy horse riding, spending time with my dog 'Smurf,' and basically having a really good laugh partying and having fun!
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It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.
