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Life Quotes


"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."


"The Epistle is a correction of profession without life, and most valuable in this respect."


"It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably."


"If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality."


"I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life."


"When you're young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that can't make up their minds. Perhaps it's a way of admitting that things can't ever bear the same certainty again."



"A poet clings to his own tradition and avoids internationalism."


"Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex."


"I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life."


"Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways."


"Death is a common destination."


"In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment."


"And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present."



"I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by."



"Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again."



"Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life."


"This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists."



"I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life."


"What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes."


"You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are."


"The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever."



"But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder."


"You don't say to a university professor who is immersed in a particular subject that they should get a life. They are encouraged to enjoy their subject and to pass it on."
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