Life Quotes
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Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.
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The real problem is, people think life is a ladder, and it’s really a wheel.
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When I am getting ready to cross a street, I look both ways before crossing. My bones, my muscles, are not what they used to be, so I am careful when I go up and down stairs, because I've heard stories of older people falling and having very disabling injuries. I have enough things that begin to go a little bit wrong as I get a little bit older.
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I love the theater community and theater life, and would love to figure out the distinctive differences between Broadway and the West End.
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I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke.
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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
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When I go and work with people, I never say, 'Your dog is changed for the rest of its life.' It's like a diet. You've got to maintain a discipline and ritual in your life to keep a certain figure.
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I want you and it will be so, While I have life.
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I do understand what it is to not want to commit to someone, knowing that might bring pain or commit to a life that has to do with being responsible to people other than myself. These things, I think, are normal things.
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Charles bought a picture of some asparagus from Manet, one of his extraordinary small still lifes, where a lemon or rose is lambent in the dark. It was a bundle of twenty stalks bound in straw. Manet wanted 800 francs for it, a substantial sum, and Charles, thrilled, sent 1,000. A week later Charles received a small canvas signed with a simple M in return. It was a single asparagus stalk laid across a table with an accompanying note: ‘This seems to have slipped from the bundle.
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Do your very best on every task. Imagine that everyone is watching even when no one is watching.
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I don't deal with the nuts and bolts of life.
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It is not what you have lost but what you have left that counts.
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Remember this although timing in life is everything, memorable moments in history don't just happen! Do something...stay positive!
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Being pro-life doesn't save babies, acting pro-life does.
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My life is centered around God and faith.
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Life is too short for a half-rack.
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Universal ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict will establish an international moral consensus that no child should take part in hostilities or be involuntarily recruited and that former child soldiers should be assisted by their governments after a life of violence and distress.
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I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been.
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Nothing uniquely bad has happened to me in my personal life, but all the regular little bad things have accumulated to make me a neurotic person. And these adventures are my way of trying to make sense of that.
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Many of us are missing something in life because we are after the second best.
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If you become a master of meaning, you become a master of your life. Two people can have the same experience. One person decides that because of that experience his or her life is over, while the other decides that God has challenged him or her to step up, face the challenge, and become more than he or she ever was before.
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Cancer is the most pernicious, insidious, disgusting disease of life.
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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
