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Life Quotes



"Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life."


"Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process."


"The fundamental language of life is change. Life will keep on changing."


"That is how life goes- we send our children into the wilderness. Some of them on the day they are born, it seems, for all the help we can give them. Some of them seem to be a kind of wilderness unto themselves. But there must be angels there, too, and springs of water. Even that wilderness, the very habitation of jackals, is the Lord's."


"Superficial cannot discover the deep, because both live in different levels and likewise the deep cannot meet the deepest! Change your level to reach at different levels!"



"Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived."


"I don't think events in your life affect your music."



"Maybe that's my lot in life as an actor, to be the guy who gets crapped on everywhere he goes. Oh God."


"It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment."


"How you manage yourself as you deal with stuff in your life largely determines the quality of your life."



"I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses."
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"I am aware that my name has been connected with all the bank robberies in the country; but positively I had nothing to do with any one of them. I look upon my life since the war as a blank, and will never say anything to make it appear otherwise."


"Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life."



"Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger?"



"For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed."


"I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away."


"Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds."


"I always laugh the hardest at the stuff you see in day-to-day life. It's great when somebody can tell a joke that really makes you laugh hard, but to see some kind of personal interaction that no one could write is so good. Those are always the things that make me laugh."


"Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it."



"My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish."


"I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life."
Life,


"The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want."


"'Tis the set of the sail that decides the goal, and not the storm of life."
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