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Life Quotes


"The day that I was elected to the United States Senate remains among the most cherished of my life."


"We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours."


"If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively."


"I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive."


"No, I think it taught me to be independent and never expect a handout and never wait for anybody to hand you anything in any aspect of my life."
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"With the breakdown of discipline in the home and with every source of amusement and instruction pouring poison into daily life, it is not to be wondered that the minds of people are ready to receive anything but the truth and that they are ready to believe lies and ultimately the lie."


"The good die young but not always. The wicked prevail but not consistently. I am confused by life, and I feel safe within the confines of the theatre."


"For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided."



"Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit."


"Whenever someone 'pretends' as perfect, never made a mistake, error, sin in his life, I know that he has never been in the field..."


"I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track."


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


"I was lucky enough to know exactly what I wanted to do when I was growing up. I think one of the hardest things to figure out in life is what your calling is, and what truly makes you happy - not what you want to work at, but what you want to do."


"I always had a fantasy of being a chef, because I like kitchen life."


"I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say."


"Like a flower pressed flat and dried, we try to hold it still and say, this is exactly how it was the day I first saw it. But like the flower, the past cannot be trapped that way. It loses its fragrance and and its vitality, its fragility becomes brittleness and its colors fade. And when next you look on the flower, you know that it is not at all what you sought to capture, that that moment has fled forever."


"I had a breakthrough, I think my life just became calmer, I gave up drinking. My priorities changed as I had a young daughter. The group didn't want me to record for the Think Tank album... so I took it as a sign to leave."


"It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn."


"When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life."


"No one OWES you a THING. So don't EXPECT it. You're on your OWN."


"If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life."


"All girls hit that phase where they like the bad boy. I grew out of that really young and I have a wonderful guy in my life who's not a bad boy at all. I like the satiric, consistent nice guy."


"The real protection of life and property, always and everywhere."


"No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head."
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"I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor."


"Spiritual grace adds to a life and it is crucial ingredient in any person's quest to attain self-realization."
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