Quotes with life-belt

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  • A.J. Cronin That is life... to begin again when everything is lost!
    A.J. Cronin
    Scottish novelist and physician (1896 - 1981)
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  • Amelia Barr That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Samuel Johnson That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • George Santayana That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Aphra Behn That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
    Aphra Behn
    English playwright, poet and translator (1640 - 1689)
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  • Buck Owens That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Benjamin Franklin That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Denis Waitley That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Belle Livingstone That winter two things happened which made me see that the world, the flesh, and the devil were going to be more powerful influences in my life after all than the chapel bell. First, I tasted champagne, second, the theatre.
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  • Anderson Cooper That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.
    Anderson Cooper
    American television journalist (1967 - )
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  • Carolyn Chute That's the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Barbara Mandrell That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Doris Lessing That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Bruce Barton The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Iris Murdoch The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Jean Cocteau The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Raymond Chandler The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Edmund White The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
    Edmund White
    American novelist and LGBT essayist (1940 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Henry Miller The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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