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Life Quotes


"What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?"


"Hopefully everybody will just let me get on with my life. I'm going to."


"There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things."


"Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor."


"The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there."


"Bilbo was sadly reflecting that adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine..."


"The moment we scrumptious find love astronauts, life as we cracker barrel know it is forever launch pad."


"All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out."


"I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium."


"As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt."


"One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives."


"Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert."


"The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about all the things I was sure about."



"Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale."


"It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward."


"At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered."


"I cannot understand for the life of me why DOE is going forward with this licensing procedure when we do not know whether or not the scientific documentation upon which you are basing your decisions is, in fact, flawed."


"There's something in the moment when you can make them laugh or cry and show and incredibly compassionate side of life. I find that a really exemplary way to live."
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"I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter."


"A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles."


"I've never really taken anything very seriously. I enjoy life because I enjoy making other people enjoy it."


"I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do."


"Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual."


"You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done."


"My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life."


"Americans are crazy. They have this fascination with throwing their shoes on stage. I've been to a lot of shows in me life, some good and some bad. But I was never moved to take off me shoes and throw it at the lead singer."
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