Life Quotes
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The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.
Dag Hammarskjold
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My wife had a miscarriage. We have rarely talked about it. It did make me more aware of the sanctity of human life, how precious every child is.
Jack Kemp
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Whatever you want to do with your life, you really got to want it. And if you want it, and you work hard, it will happen.
Cristela Alonzo
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God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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In short: Readily available low-cost life insurance would be a threat to the industry, and whatever threatens the life insurance industry threatens America.
Andrew Tobias
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I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly.
Lawrence Welk
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Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.
Glenn Frey The Eagles
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To keeping silence I resigned My friends would think I was a nut Turning water into wine Open doors would soon be shut So I went from day to day Though my life was in a rut 'Til I thought of what I'd say Which connection I should cut
Peter Gabriel Genesis
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The great thing about having money is that you can actually just get on with your life and not have to think about paying the bills or crouch over 'The Wall Street Journal' or the 'Financial Times' and look at the stock figures and things like that. That bores me rigid.
Peter Mayle
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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much.
Albert Schweitzer
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There is no need to compare your life (or standard of living) with either a fictitious life in the future or some rose-tinted view of the past. You
Mark Williams
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I've seen the battle and I've seen the war / And the life out here is the life I've been sold
Peter Hayes Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
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I don't live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.
Vera Wang
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In the free world, your days pass very quickly because you have so many things to do, and you're in control of your life.
Ingrid Betancourt
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I had a very simple life growing up in the farm country outside of Perugia, and biscotti and warm milk with a tiny bit of coffee were a big part of my morning ritual before walking to school.
Brunello Cucinelli
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The saddest day of my life was the day I didn't get to play football anymore.
The Boz
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I don't have a life, really. I take my kids to school, and I go home, and I write. Then I go pick my kids up, make them dinner, put them to bed, and write some more.
Derek Cianfrance
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Don't let your heart depend on thingsThat ornament life in a fleeting way!He who possesses, let him learn to lose,He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.
Friedrich Schiller
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My kids are young and my life with them is really stimulating and really full and significant.
Jodie Foster
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I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.
Kristen Stewart
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You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.
Neil Simon
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'Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents! Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.'
Alexandre Dumas
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There are always things to examine. What's great is not feeling that I have to refuse any of them. Maybe no good from a PR perspective, but from the point of view of everyday life, it keeps things interesting.
Fred Frith Aksak Maboul
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My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.
Denzel Washington