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Life Quotes


"A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen."



"You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens."


"I was persuaded now that I was destined to lead a life on the Plains."


"Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit."


"Men don't have as many difficulties and are more supported to combine the different aspects of their life."


"Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason."



"I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?"
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"If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something."


"You need a balance in life between dealing with what's going on inside and not being so absorbed in yourself that it takes over."


"Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you."


"Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous."


"But if we learn to think of it as anticipation, as learning, as growing, if we think of the time we spend waiting for the big things of life as an opportunity instead of a passing of time, what wonderful horizons open out!"


"Anyway the war is over so far as they are concerned. But to wait for dysentery is not much of a life either."



"Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives."



"The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife."


"What has made America great have been the opportunities given to everyone in this country. Since our founding, individuals and families have come to America to seek freedom, opportunity and the choice for a better life."


"To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them - these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our love."


"Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough."



"The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures."
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"I would dare say that most anyone in public life, if they stay in public long enough, is not treated fairly."


"I have never, ever, had an acting partnership that was a safe, as full, and as exciting as the one I had with Tony. I didn't want to go through life without having a chance to taste it again."


"My world view is somewhat unique. I have learned from many great philosophers including Plato, Socrates, Buddha, Jesus, Darwin, Tagore, Emerson, and many more."


"Then he holds her and for a moment I hear total silence; that totally silent part of a cry that announces that the most horrible grief is going to follow. And it does, and he's muffling it, but I can hear and I want someone to come over and jab her with a sedative because its pitch pierces my soul."


"It was the worst moment of my life. The producer came up and talked me back into going on stage."
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"I believe that everything in life happens for a reason."


"Girlfriend and 100 Percent Fun were my two peeks, around '92 and '96. The reality is that the times I had the most media success, sold lots of records and played bigger shows, I had the least control of my own life."


"Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course."


"You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate."
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