Life Quotes
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The same good sense, that directs men in the ordinary occurrences of life, is not hearkened to in religious matters, which are supposed to be placed altogether above the cognizance of human reason.
David Hume
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Anytime you're in fear for your life, it's intense.
Jason Clarke
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My whole life I've hated to lose, no doubt about it. I've been guilty of that since I was 6 years old, at camp. I have always played to win. That's who I am. But I never hurt anybody. The problem is when you're perceived as being too aggressive where you hurt somebody or do something improper.
Peter M. Brant
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Sometimes bleak is good. Sometimes bleak is necessary. Some part of life is always bleak.
Claire Denis
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Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.
Suzanne Weyn
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Who has the best features? This was a little game, conducted several times and always with the same results, in seventh grade, the time when so many of life's little horrors begin.
Caroline Knapp
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Every couple of weeks, someone writes in and says, '23andMe saved my life.'
Anne Wojcicki
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It took me a while to get back to 'The Queen of the Night.' I was angry with it as an idea because I felt like it had sort of ruined my life by taking so much attention away from 'Edinburgh.' So it essentially languished in a drawer until 2004, when I pulled it out, dusted it off, and thought, 'Oh, I actually really like this idea.'
Alexander Chee
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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Anais Nin
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Every now and then I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral. Every now and then I ask myself, 'What is it that I would want said?' I'd like somebody to mention that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others. I'd like for somebody to say that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to love somebody.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The holy, all-loving, all-powerful, all-mighty, perfectly peaceful and joyful Life of God is waiting to be ours. It is a priceless gift that comes with only one condition: His Life can only be had in exchange for our own.
Eric Ludy
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A deep appreciation for politics comes from empathy for our fellow human beings and their diverse paths through life.
Chris Sacca
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Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now.
Judith Malina
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My mother, whose interest in chemistry was rather minimal, nevertheless went to graduate school in the subject and married my father, for whom it was as important as life itself.
George Akerlof
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Political elections are not life and death.
Rita Mae Brown
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of Theatres There, while weeping for sorrows which are not, laughing at the light jest or the ludicrous misadventure, how little is remembered of the want which makes fear the only bond that binds the living to life !
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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He stands with his hands in his pockets, well-dressed and self-assured, with his life before him and a plush armchair behind him.
Edmund de Waal
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What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...?
William Butler Yeats
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Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.
Bob Marley
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Of all the life skills I could have learned - First aid? Nah. But I can pour a pint.
Jodie Whittaker
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People tell me I'm a comedian, but I don't approach acting from that perspective. I do know that everything in life has to do with your timing and perception. You have to be comfortable with the rhythm that you're in. You can't just jump into a fast rhythm if yours is slow. You might have to pick up the pace but in your own particular way. It has to do with personality, too.
Mike Tyson
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Life is the soul's nursery.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Janice Looking back from this distance, she can't think any more that Harry was all to blame for their early troubles, he had just been trying life on too: life and sex and making babies and finding out who you are.
John Updike
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For 10 minutes, I was somebody's mother, and that was both the most traumatic and also the most transcendent experience of my life.
Ariel Levy