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Life Quotes


"I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either."


"I don't think I'd have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I'd known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed."


"The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism."



"Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life."



"All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it."


"There are dreams which belong only partly in the unconscious; these are the dreams we remember on waking so vividly that we deliberately continue them, and so fall asleep again and wake and sleep and the dream goes on without interruption, with a thread of logic the pure dream doesn't possess."



"The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense."


"You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning."


"He could totally be your boyfriend," [Angel] went on with annoying persistance. "You guys could get married. I could be like a junior bridesmaid. Total could be your flower dog.""I'm only a kid!" I shrieked. "I can't get married!""You could in New Hampshire.""


"I would just like to get him to think about these things; whether what's happening in Iraq is promoting the culture of life. The worry is that he is so certain that he know where he's going to lead the country."



"The world began in hazard and will end in it."



"Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying."


"Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action."


"You only have one life. Make sure that yours is one you are happy to be living."


"The fact that so many of your people are today residents and citizens of the United States, lending their influence to our civic and economic life, which has meant so much to our development."



"I mean, on the television, I've got to continue to be Star Jones Reynolds. And I enjoy that. But in my real life, I'm a wife now. You can't really be bossy when you're married."


"The busier you are, the more interesting you are. The more you're off doing your thing and loving your job and your life, that's fascinating."


"You know, I've carried a weapon for 10 years, never shot anybody, never robbed anybody. It has saved my life twice, but I know they're not toys. I practice with firearms, I enjoy shooting, it's a hobby of mine and I have a healthy respect for them."


"Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be."
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"I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I just want to be reasonably successful and live a normal life with all the conveniences to make it so."


"Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear."


"In normal life we hardly realize how much more we receive than we give, and life cannot be rich without such gratitude. It is so easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements compared with what we owe to the help of others."


"I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence."


"A commencement is a time of joy. It is also a time of melancholy. But then again, so is life."


"I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity. Those days are gone, and I don't ever want to see that happen to me again. Now I can wander around the streets of Los Angeles on my own. I like it that way."


"The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity."


"Because 'You're perfect just the way you are,' is what your guidance counselor says. And she's an alcoholic."


"I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again."


"Money brings courage with it but lock contentment behind."


"Be there a picnic for the devil,an orgy for the satyr,and a wedding for the bride."


"I am surprised that I cannot recall whether my desire to become a minister transformed itself into a wish to lead the more militant life of missionary, by a slow process or suddenly."
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