Life Quotes
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I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals. Lady Luck has been good to me and I fancy she has been good to everyone. Only some people are dour, and when she gives them the come hither with her eyes, they look down or turn away and lift an eyebrow. But me, I give her the wink and away we go.
William Allen White
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I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!
Cy Coleman
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I'm involved with Children's Hospital Los Angeles. I love anything that helps and improves the life of children.
Lisa Vidal
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One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'
Alan King
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Whatever your business is, we all have a drama going on in our own lives. We're all unhappy about something. You have sickness, marital problems, a myriad of things going wrong in everybody's life. You have to deal with those things right away. You have to get their full concentration on football. I'd like to be able to communicate even more with my players when things aren't going bad, but it's just like everything else in life. The problems take over, and you wind up chasing the problems. I'd say handling people is the most important thing you do as a coach. Dealing with people, really, is all football is.
Joe Gibbs
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Women come up to us all the time and give us the most amazing compliments, like, 'Salt-N-Pepa was the soundtrack of my life.' They remind us that we meant so much to them. Sometimes artists don't really grasp that. But when you talk to fans, you get in touch with your legacy.
Pepa DJ Spinderella
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God often uses a man or several different men to impact your life with the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
Dag Heward-Mills
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What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.
Baruch Spinoza
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We know that without food we would die. Without fellowship, life is not worth living.
Laurie Colwin
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A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory - and very few eyes can see the mystery of life - a life like the Scriptures, figurative... Lord Byron cuts a figure, but he is not figurative. Shakespeare led a life of allegory: his works are the comments on it.
John Keats
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Three-quarters of a soldier's life is spent in aimlessly waiting about.
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
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With Gutenberg Europe enters the technological phase of progress, when change itself becomes the archetypal norm of social life. (p. 177)
Marshall McLuhan
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Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves? Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.
Joyce Meyer
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These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
George Eliot
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Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate.
Arne Glimcher
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Newport Center has become a Mediterranean town. The climate here is the same as the Mediterranean's, and so is the architecture. This center exudes a radiance, an energy. It will become a special way of life for everyone.
Donald Bren
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When I was writing 'Southeastern,' I'd just recently gotten sober. For me, that was a major turning point in my life. It changed things I did on a day-to-day basis. My whole routine was upended. It took me some time to get used to that and figure out how do I keep myself entertained.
Jason Isbell
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If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.
John William Cummings Ramones
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When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.
Gabrielle Zevin
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The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.
Oswald Chambers
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If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others?
Barack Obama
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It was clear that if I didn't spend the rest of my life concentrating on string theory, I would simply be missing my life's calling.
Edward Witten
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There is someone out there that will love you.They'll want you for you.Don't settle for less.Life is short and I'm tired of wasting it...
Abbi Glines
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Whoever has looked into the eyes of Jesus as he appears to us in his words knows that true happiness consists of service to this great One and his Spirit - and a life offerred to his work. Those who accept this mode of life, who know how to live it, become brothers and sisters.
Albert Schweitzer