Life Quotes
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It's a funny thing when you think you're dead. You're not terrified of it anymore. There's a sort of a epiphany to religious thing; it's not sort of church-based, but you end up with a serenity which you didn't have before, and I just simply enjoy it. It really does sound stupid, but I've got to tell you it's made my life.
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My mother, who is nearly ninety now, still talks continually about my father. All my life, I've been aware of her grief about his absence and her strong pride in his conduct.
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When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
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Being a shy child, I always longed for a mask. Even in my adult life, I have glasses, they are my mask.
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Be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations wherever you come; that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them; then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone; whereby in them you may be a blessing, and make the witness of God in them to bless you.
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But although life is not energy, any more than it is matter, yet it directs energy and thereby controls arrangements of matter.
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The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.
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I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.
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My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis.
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Everyone Instagrams all the people they are with. I get that it's part of the job. But there's a point where it's like, 'Can't you just be a person and have a separate life to your job?'
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For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
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Some people make their best music when life is horrible.
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Opposition is an inevitable reality of pastoral life.
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I'm a pro-life candidate because I believe that science is proving us right every day.
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I think as a guy you need a little bit to be on your own from early on, to start to live your own life, and try to understand what is going on around you, you have to be able to survive.
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During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who cared for members of my family. Although he was practicing general medicine in a rural community when I met him, he was well equipped to arouse in me an interest not only in the life of a physician but in the fundaments of human biology.
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All sense of reality had gone out of her life; she had abandoned herself to fate, and awaited the consequences with indifference.
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It seemed to me that I should have a desk, even though I had no real need for a desk. I was afraid that if I had no desk in my room my life would seem too haphazard.
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I'm looking for a bunch of new tchotchkes that represent the new part of my life.
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If Alibaba cannot become a Microsoft or Wal-Mart, I will regret it for the rest of my life.
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A fact of modern life is that it takes women longer to get ready than men.
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That's the kind of death that frightens me. The shadow of death slowly, slowly eats away at the region of life, and before you know it everything's dark and you can't see, and the people around you think of you as more dead than alive.
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Life is sacred. Life is art. Life is sacred art.
