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Life Quotes


"Something that has so much power must have life. Instruments have life."


"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."


"More than seven months ago, our country learned that the horrors portrayed in Hollywood's make-believe world could actually come to life before our very eyes."


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


"The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences."


"Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end."


"If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life."


"In short, our response as a party should be to work to solve the crises that produce crisis pregnancies, and work to make life worth living for mother and child, rather than victimize the child as a way of dealing with the crisis."


"The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries."


"When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life."


"I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it."


"As dye soaks fibres, drawn into them to change their colour forever, so does a memory, stinging or sweet, change the fibre of a man's character."



"Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you."


"When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists."
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"For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed."



"For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of 'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never assassinate Archduke Ferdinand."


"Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity."


"Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing."


"The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years."


"Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. ... New harmonies new contrasts new combinations of every sort. ... The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other to their work to surrounding objects."


"You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement."


"Most people live lives that are full of mysteries, lives whose ultimate purpose we may never really understand. But for the sake of serenity, we must believe in life's nobleness."


"In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol."


"Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing."



"The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense."


"Everything that happens in your life is beautiful. Find yourself in the appreciation of life."
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