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Life Quotes


"Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets."


"The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles."


"The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life."


"My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember."


"In LIFE, You Meet with People You Wish You Knew Them for Ages and you will meet with people you will wish they were gone for ages."


"Class is the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life."


"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."


"I have so much satisfaction in my life. I have a beautiful wife and the great stimulation of an interesting career. I'm the most happy fellow that I know."



"It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody."


"Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key."


"There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point."
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"It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills."



"Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose."


"She believed in getting as much use as possible from everything, and thought that as long as machinery, or anything else, could be cajoled into operation, it should be kept; to do otherwise, she thought, was wasteful."


"I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut."


"The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don't deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they're going to go home one night and have the girl they've loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con."


"I guess you could say I've been writing all my life."


"Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life."


"Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you."


"So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die."


"Even when you don't see old age coming, you can wave it goodbye."


"This is the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. I you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want."


"Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment."



"An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details."


"You know all that sympathy that you feel for an abused child who suffers without a good mom or dad to love and care for them? Well, they don't stay children forever. No one magically becomes an adult the day they turn eighteen. Some people grow up sooner, many grow up later. Some never really do. But just remember that some people in this world are older versions of those same kids we cry for."


"The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations."


"Let the world know what you live for...not what you fall for!"


"To me, you go through things like that and you learn from it. You add it on to your life, to try to make your life better. Instead of dogging people, learn something from it. And keep stepping."


"To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly."
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