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Life Quotes


"With a film, I do my best to understand the author's intentions and try to bring the characters to life."


"Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life."


"I don't count my blessings,because just being alive is good enough for me."


"I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance."


"You know," he said, his voice making me feel cold in spite of the heat, "this city can get ahold of you and pull you back no matter how hard you try to climb out. Like a grave."


"For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."


"The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable."


"It is not because I do not love my adopted land - it is the natural feeling of one far from home, who remembers those happy, carefree days when life flowed at full tide, without responsibility, flashing past one like the drama in a fascinating story of adventure and romance."


"Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position."


"Make your life a mission - not an intermission."


"You may call me selfish if you will, conservative or reactionary, or use any other harsh adjective you see fit to apply, but an American I was born, an American I have remained all my life."


"Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way."



"My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher."


"Life is simply the reification of the process of living."


"I think that finding a way into somebody's life that's sort of off from a side angle can tell you more about that person than a greatest hits approach."
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"The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson."


"My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen."


"My life closed twice before its close; It yet remains to seeIf Immortality unveil A third event to me,So huge, so hopeless to conceive, As these that twice befell.Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell."


"In sharp contrast to the idea that this stage of life is enviable, we hear high levels of anxiety about getting old, anxieties about health, mobility, access to facilities, simple routine care and attention."


"I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done."


"As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills."



"The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it."



"Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life."


"One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life."


"A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval."
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