Life Quotes
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I enjoy writing about people falling in love, probably because I think the first time you fall in love is the first time that you have to figure out how you're going to orient your life. What are you going to value? What's going to be most important to you? And I think that's really interesting to write about.
John Green
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I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work.
Jay McInerney
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My world is better. Why would I want to waste my time playing golf? I can get up in the morning and be in this whole other world. I love my life.
Janet Evanovich
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I don't dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it's gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin' White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It's connected to where you are today.
Matthew McConaughey
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But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.
Donna Tartt
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Being a ballerina can be a very unnatural life, especially after you've had children.
Darcey Bussell
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In life, people talk at right angles. One asks a question, and the other replies in part, then uses that part to move the conversation to something else. Everyone has an agenda, has something they're trying to say - or not say.
Jesse Ball
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Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.
John B. S. Haldane
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Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing influences just a few people to make them just a little happy.
Kenneth Rexroth
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I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.
Diego Della Valle
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I was disappointed in Niagara -- most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.
Oscar Wilde
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The life that I aspire to liveNo man proposeth me-No trade upon the streetWears its emblazonry.
Henry David Thoreau
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Whenever our life is stirred by truth, it expresses energy and comes to be filled, as it were, with a creative ardor. This consciousness of the creative urge is evidence of the force of truth on our mind.
Rabindranath Tagore
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What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.
Barack Obama
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Either an ancient cursed Egyptian mummy has come back to life and is trying to kill the people next door, or they're watching a movie.
Chuck Palahniuk
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I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31.
John Lithgow
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It's so easy to look forward when you're travelling; you spend your life looking forward, thinking, 'What's next? When do I get time to work on my music again? Or when do I get time to get my 'normal' life back?'
Andrew Hozier-Byrne
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At every occasion in your life, do not forget to commune with yourself and ask of yourself how you can profit by it.
Epictetus
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It will shock many - I've lived a full life and really enjoyed my time as a pop star.
Belinda Carlisle
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When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.
Flannery O'Connor
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I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.
Astrid Lindgren
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I wanted to be a dramatic actress. Life doesn't go the way you think it's going to go.
Jennifer Coolidge
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They've asked me to do this temporarily. I don't know what temporarily means. Life is temporary.
Bob Schieffer
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Do you want to have an easy life? Then always stay with the herd and lose yourself in the herd.
Friedrich Nietzsche