Quotes with life-belt

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  • Annie Dillard As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Albert Camus As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Oscar Wilde As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carl Hubbell As far as control and stuff is concerned, I never had any more in my life than for that All-Star game in 1934.
    Carl Hubbell
    American baseball player (1903 - )
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  • Benjamin Bratt As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I'm not working, you'd better spend that time with someone important.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • Seneca As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Candice Millard As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon As I prepare for my second term as Secretary-General, I am thinking hard about how we can meet the expectations of the millions of people who see the U.N.'s blue flag as a banner of hope. We have to continue our life-saving work in peacekeeping, human rights, development and humanitarian relief.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Artur Davis As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics.
    Artur Davis
    American attorney and politician (1967 - )
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  • Brad Meltzer As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.
    Brad Meltzer
    American political thriller novelist and non-fiction writer (1970 - )
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  • Bill Maris As life expectancy extends beyond 80 years in some parts of the world, more people are struggling with brain diseases. For older people, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other conditions become a major impediment to quality of life.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Wallace Stevens As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • James Russell Lowell As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Albert J. Nock As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Cyril Connolly As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Benny Goodman As soon as it was understood that we could handle things in our own way, it was the thrill of my life to walk out on that stage with people just hemming the band in.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson As soon as there is life there is danger.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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