Quotes 11741 till 11760 of 25360.
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Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.
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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
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Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.
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Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.
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Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
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Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.
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Lifestyles and sex roles are passed from parents to children as inexorably as blue eyes or small feet.
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light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord's return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.
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Light gatherer. You fell from a star
into my lap, the soft lamp at the bedside
mirrored in you,
and now you shine like a snowgirl,
a buttercup under a chin, the wide blue yonder
you squeal at and fly in.Source: The Light Gatherer, from Feminine Gospels (2002) -
Light rails are too bus-like to impress most commuters, too squished and close to the ground. Monorails, by contrast, strike a chord with travelers. There's something about the sleek designs, the pillowy rides, and the panoramic views that just enchants.
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Like a beast in a pen, I'm cut off
From my friends, freedom, the Sun.
But the hunters are gaining ground;
I've nowhere else to run.Source: Selected Poems (1983) -
Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
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Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian.
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Like actors and writers who are on and off again in terms of employment, I had a very unstructured life.
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Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
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Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Source: Vivian Grey (1826) VIII, ch. 4 -
Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
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Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband.
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Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
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Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and of family disagreements.
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