Life Quotes
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Poetry is to a painting what life is to man.
Georges Braque
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O men! you can take life easily but, remember, none of you can give life! So, have mercy, have compassion! And, never forget, that compassion makes the world noble and beautiful.
Gautama Buddha
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Peace does not mean an absence of conflicts; differences will always be there. Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways.
Dalai Lama
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Art should startle the viewer into thinking about the meaning of life.
Antoni Tapies
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Tell a female she's thin and she's yours for life.
Anne Bernays
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Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.
Etty Hillesum
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Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white.
Constance Baker Motley
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We have always borne part of the weight of war, and the major part ... Men have made boomerangs, bows, swords, or guns with which to destroy one another; we have made the men who destroyed and were destroyed! ... We pay the first cost on all human life.
Olive Schreiner
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You don't have to wait till your party's in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world.
Bill Clinton
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I don't walk around talking about my life and spouting my philosophy to people I don't know. I mean, if I get to know them, I'll talk for hours. I guess I like a lower-key scene.
John Cusack
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The Master Speed No speed of wind or water rushing by but you have speed far greater. You can climb back up a stream of radiance to the sky, and back through history up the stream of time. And you were given this swiftness, not for haste nor chiefly that you may go where you will, but in the rush of everything to waste, that you may have the power of standing still-- off any still or moving thing you say. Two such as you with such a master speed From one another once you are agreed that life is only life forevermore together wing to wing and oar to oar.
Robert Frost
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We wanted to more richly experience why we were alive, not just make a better life, and so people went in search of things. The great thing that came from those that time was to realize that there was definitely more to life than the materialism of the late sixties and early sixties. We were going in search of something deeper.
Steve Jobs
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My mother was my beauty icon my whole life.
Gigi Hadid
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Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
Alan Bennett
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I have never voted in my life.
Andres Serrano
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I think fiction is important because it has the power to transport a reader into another life.
Anthony Doerr
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The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
Anne Carson
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Not one of these nobly equipped young men has escaped the restless, exhausting, confusing, debilitating crisis of education. ... He feels that he cannot guide himself, cannot help himself—and then he dives hopelessly into the world of everyday life and daily routine, he is immersed in the most trivial activity possible, and his limbs grow weak and weary.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You know what I wonder about? This - the more details of Sven-Göran Eriksson's love life that appear in the press, the more contempt he attracts for his choice of substitutes in England games. Now, we haven't done the research, but my guess is that Sven's performances in the sack and that of his subs on the pitch are not correlated. So why do we link them?
Daniel Finkelstein
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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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I like to be challenged. I like rebellion. It adds some richness and some interest to life.
Albert Serra
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I personally think 'Power' is much more similar to 'The Sopranos' in that it deals with a character who is leading a double life and wants to become legitimate.
Lela Loren
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You can't live the rest of your life carrying a pain because your parents couldn't get along. I choose to spend my life crafting a joy.
Jason Mraz