Life Quotes
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My number-one theory in life is that style is proportional to your lack of resources - the less you have, the more stylish you're likely to be.
Mary Beth Patterson
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When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.
John McGahern
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From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.
Ella Maillart
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Bob Forestier had pretended for so many years to be a gentleman that in the end, forgetting that it was all a fake, he had found himself driven to act as in that stupid, conventional brain of his he thought a gentleman must act. No longer knowing the difference between sham and real, he had sacrificed his life to a spurious heroism.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Trade and gambling and a woman occasionally - that was a man’s life.
Anthony Burgess
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You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
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We are all Spirit experiencing a process set up to facilitate its (each Spirit's) understanding of its true identity and, through that understanding, to revert to its pristine state.
Ian Gardner
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It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements.
Curtis Martin
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The choice facing the nation is between two totally different ways of life. And what a prize we have to fight for: no less than the chance to banish from our land the dark, divisive clouds of Marxist socialism and bring together men and women from all walks of life who share a belief in freedom.
Margaret Thatcher
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The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.
Pierre de Coubertin
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Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.
W. G. Sebald
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You say to me that there is more to life than hurling but if you want to carry on like a fella who is not an inter-county hurler, well then there will be more to life than hurling. Lots more. But there won't be hurling. That's the reality of it.
Brian Cody
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... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.
Saul Bellow
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No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.
David Starr Jordan
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There is only one relationship that matters, and that is your personal relationship to a personal Redeemer and Lord. Let everything else go, but maintain that at all cost, and God will fulfill His purpose through your life. (This includes meeting the needs of your heart.) One individual life may be of priceless value to God's purposes, and yours may be that life.
Oswald Chambers
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Mugger: Your money or your life.
Jack Benny
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To do something funny, you have to have experienced it in real life and digested it in a way that amuses you.
Ted Danson
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The number one priority in life is to take care of yourself and make sure you're happy.
Sabrina Carpenter
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Drake. He liked dangerous pies." "Why did he join you?" "Who would eat pie that could take over your life? Why risk it?" "Focus. Why did he join you?" "Say no to death pies. Another good motto. I'm getting a headache."
Brandon Mull
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Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
Jay Leno
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I'm a capitalist. I'm not going to feel sympathetic to people leading a life they don't have to lead who, with effort, could maybe break out of it.
John Caudwell
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I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.
Jermaine Dupri Mauldin
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Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.
Damian McGinty