Life Quotes
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The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.
Oswald Chambers
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You cannot find the centre Where we dance , where we play, Where life is still asleep Under the closed flower , Under the smooth shell Of eggs in the cupped nest That mock the faded blue Of your remoter heaven .
R. S. Thomas
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The one continuing problem in my life has always had the shape of just one question: What amusing thing can I do next?
Evalyn Walsh McLean
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I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.
Shania Twain
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Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
Thomas Carlyle
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Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having.
Alasdair Gray
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My life revolves around my child's routine.
Shania Twain
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There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.
Geezer Butler Black Sabbath
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I love San Francisco and Brighton has something of San Francisco about it. It's by the sea, there's a big gay community, a feeling of people being there because they enjoy their life there.
Brian Eno Roxy Music
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You spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young.
Douglas Coupland
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Vulnerable people are powerful people. Opening your heart and sharing it means you're going to get so much love in your life. and it's the way to true connection and real purpose and meaning in your life, in my opinion.
Amy Poehler
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If things are too easy, life is a whole lot less interesting.
Marian Wright Edelman
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I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.
William Kent Krueger
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I don't think I have ever worked in my life, because work to me means that you are really doing something that you don't like.
John Kluge
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I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful and happy to be able to share this.
Eric Idle
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Life was easy was back in the days before human resource departments controlled business and someone decided we all should be politically correct.
Jerry Della Femina
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Work is life. Work is opportunity.
Steve Southerland
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I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town.
Sarah Palin
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Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle age; but never to ardent three-and-twenty in the fever of his first love.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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I learned how to dance. I got a free spray tan. My life is good!
Carson Kressley
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What I wanted to do and what I needed to do was something entirely different, and through reading Roussel I learned that I could do what I wanted all on my own and that I didn't have to rely on what had actually happened in my somewhat limited life and reading.
Harry Mathews
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Life is too brief and too rich to tiptoe through half-heartedly, rather than galloping at it with whooping excitement and ambition.
Alastair Humphreys
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I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.
Basil W. Maturin