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Life Quotes


"The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself."


"I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed."


"I take judge-made law as one of the existing realities of life."


"The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was."



"Married life is an existence with bars around it."


"Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us."


"With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome."


"My guiding principles in life are to be honest, genuine, thoughtful and caring."



"Contentment is, after all, simply refined indolence."


"When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects this by falling into place easily, often miraculously."


"Absolutely. I - you know, he was so that much a part of my life that, you know, Elvis, you know, once - once you bonded with him, I mean, there was no - there was no going back. He was just a great guy."
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"I think when you begin to think of yourself as having achieved something, then there's nothing left for you to work towards. I want to believe that there is a mountain so high that I will spend my entire life striving to reach the top of it."



"If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great."


"I really never stopped thinking about Ellen, because I just haven't felt that kind of energy with anyone in my life."


"The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady's life - parents of victims, police, Brady himself."


"Indeed, in the present climate of mistrust of institutions, many people who yearn for a more meaningful and fulfilling life would regard the church as an unlikely place to go for guidance."


"I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice."


"There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation."



"Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life."


"I thought, I'm out in my life, that doesn't involve my public life."


"By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive."



"There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy life."


"If you go back to the first single-cell form of life, it clearly possessed the capacity to receive, to utilize, to store, to transform, and to transmit information."


"We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life."


"I think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere."
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