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Life Quotes



"In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish."


"I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life."


"It was one of those strange moments that came to him rarely, but never left. A moment that stamped itself on heart and brain, instantly recallable in every detail, for all of his life. There was no telling what made these moments different from any other, though he knew them when they came. He had seen sights more gruesome and more beautiful by far, and been left with no more than a fleeting muddle of their memory. But these-- the still moments, as he called them to himself-- they came with no warning, to print a random image of the most common things inside his brain, indelible."


"From that moment on I knew my profession in life was and has remained until today an actor's life."


"While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?"


"I suppose each of us has his own fantasy of how he wants to die. I would like to go out in a blaze of glory, myself, or maybe simply disappear someday, far out in the heart of the wilderness I love, all by myself, alone with the Universe and whatever God may happen to be looking on. Disappear - and never return. That's my fantasy."



"Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you're passing. Otherwise, it'll be too late."


"I wouldn't know how to find eBay on the computer if my life depended on it."


"It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good."



"What matters here are the works - finally without them his life would be uninteresting. What matters, that is, are the astonishing things that he left behind. If we can get the life in relation to the works, then it can take off."
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"Women are extremely important shapers of my own life."



"I ask you to stand by my side in the next five years. We shall live a good life in a Romania of all Romanians."


"I just feel, in life, I'm searching for something I can rely on, something that's constant and something that's going to guide me through. And I felt that the Northern Star is a very beautiful image of that."
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"Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs."



"The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life."
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"It [Foucault's Pendulum] can be very comforting for people of my generation, who ate disappointment for breakfast, lunch, and dinner."


"All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child."



"Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich."


"May i have pain,but I don't have regret,that for whom I left all that person my beloved betrayed me.more I have regret for that child who's mother don't love and don't care and worry about his life.and betrayed him by broke his swears."


"I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective."



"Life, if well lived, is long enough."


"I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me."


"Because travel was an area of my life where I felt most vital, I wanted to continue to invest in that, too. I had quit a full time job, drained my retirement account to invest in a long-held dream, and used the realization of that dream to enter a void with no guarantees. I didn't want financial struggle to be the sole outgrowth of the risks I had taken. More than money, I had put my belief systems on the line."


"I am vehemently grateful that, by whatever means, I learned to assume that loneliness should be in part pleasure, sensitizing and clarifying, and that it is even a truer bond among people than any kind of proximity."


"Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life."


"I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota."


"Think of war as a game of Russian roulette. It is a game of chance with your life as the grand prize."


"I had to skydive for the movie and I was terrified. Like everybody, I thought it was going to be one of those experiences that changes your life. It didn't."
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