Life Quotes
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If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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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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
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I now do my own cabaret act, singing and telling stories about my life.
Anne Reid
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I'm actually doing what I want with my life. I do sometime think I could just shut up and rest on my laurels and say: you know what guys, I'll operate out of the pocket you put me in.... but no way! No way I'm gonna do that! I'd just get bored stiff the first minute.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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Until socialism is confronted with its lived, communist reality, the gravest atrocities of all recorded human life, we live in its age.
Alan Charles Korsun
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I remember going to the university film club to see 'The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp' one night and being bowled over. It was one of the most beautiful films I'd ever seen. And it felt so personal.
Kevin Macdonald
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I have worked all my life, wanted to work all my life, needed to work all my life.
Liz Carpenter
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I'm the only pro-life woman in the Senate. I take this issue very seriously. I'm the mother of two children.
Kelly Ayotte
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God did not give me my life to throw it away.
Charlotte Bronte
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The one thing I do remember is that as I retraced my steps through all the familiar streets of my life, Inow felt completely lost.
Carolyn Mackler
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I am grateful to have my life back and for the friends and family who never gave up on me, for a God who was there when I was ready to find him. I am grateful for so much, that every day, one day at a time, is Thanksgiving.
Andrew Zimmern
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Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough.
George Eliot
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Awkwardness defines my life.
Alexandra Robbins
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When my daughter was born, I said: 'I feel like I know what I've been waiting my whole life to be.'
Corey Johnson
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As someone who wasn't heavily supported or resourced as a young person when I was going through the hardest times of my life, I'm used to operating outside of systems. The trans movement has always been that way.
Janet Mock
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I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.
Ethan Hawke
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I've never had a social life, don't ever want one because it's boring.
Daniel Johns Silverchair
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Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.
James Anthony Froude
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In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.
Epictetus
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That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.
Nicholas Sparks
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It took me all my life to learn how to salt a tomato.
Eric Ripert
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I may think I have inalienable rights to be alive and happy but I don't - life is a blessing.
Terrence McNally
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Anything that dims my vision for Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps me in my prayer life, or makes Christian work difficult, is wrong for me; and I must, as a Christian turn away from it.
J. Chapman