Quotes with life-affirming

Quotes 3501 till 3520 of 4242.

  • Ben Stein There's no evidence whatsoever that Darwin had anything useful to say or anything to say period about how life began or how the universe began or how gravity began or how physics began or fluid motion or how thermodynamics began. He had nothing to say about that whatsoever.
    On his points of making Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Campbell Brown There's no reason why anyone's job should become untouchable for the rest of their life.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Barry J. Farber There's no reward in life without risk.
    Barry J. Farber
    American entrepreneur, sales consultant and author
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  • Barry Mann There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • Beatrice Wood There's so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Cass Elliot There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.
    Cass Elliot
    American singer and actress (1941 - 1974)
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  • Bill Kurtis There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Barry Humphries There's to be a film about my life. I can give this as an exclusive now. Meryl Streep was offered the part but, no, I wanted Kate Winslet. Kylie Minogue is playing me in middle age. In old age, I'm not sure who's going to play me. I haven't got there yet. Perhaps Cate Blanchett. Or Jacki Weaver.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Henry Drummond Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.
    Henry Drummond
    Scottish evangelist, biologist, writer and lecturer (1786 - 1860)
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  • Abigail Adams These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.... Great necessities call out great virtues.
    Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 January 1780
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Bill McKibben These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.
    Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age
    Bill McKibben
    American environmentalist, author, and journalist (1960 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan These sorts of things can happen, identities can be switched, the emotional implications are something that he has not been trained to feel. His whole life has been about separating himself from these sorts of actions.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Adam Smith They are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into equal portions among all its inhabitants, and thus without intending it, without knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the multiplication of the species.
    The Theory of Moral Sentiments Part IV (1759)
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • William Hazlitt They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Adrienne Rich They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?
    Adrienne Rich
    American Poet (1929 - 2012)
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  • Ayaan Hirsi Ali They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.
    Ayaan Hirsi Ali
    Somali-born Dutch-American activist, feminist and author (1969 - )
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  • Katherine Anne Porter They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Lorrie Moore They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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