Quotes with life-element

Quotes 1221 till 1240 of 4295.

  • George F. Will I say statecraft is soulcraft. Just as all education is moral education because learning conditions conduct, most legislation is moral legislations because it conditions the action and the thought of the nation in broad and important spheres in life.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Abbie Hoffman I see Judaism as a way of life. Sticking up for the underdog. Being an outsider. A critic of society. The kid on the corner who says the emperor has no clothes on. The Prophet.
    Source: Tikkun (July-August 1989)
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Anais Nin I seek the real stuff of life. Profound drama.
    Source: The Diary Of Anais Nin vol. 2
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Benjamin Franklin I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Gertrude Stein I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
    Gertrude Stein
    American author (1874 - 1946)
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  • Jean Rostand I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young soul to which they are totally unfit. Cannot we let people be themselves, and enjoy life in their own way? You are trying to make that man another you. One's enough.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • A. N. Wilson I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Sebastian Faulks I suppose that each of us may have a great moment in our life, a month, a week, a year, when we are most fully what we are meant to be.
    Sebastian Faulks
    British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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  • Charlie Chaplin I suppose that's one of the ironies of life, doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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  • Armistead Maupin I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Terence I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • Bruce Springsteen I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Herb Caen I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
    Herb Caen
    American journalist (1916 - 1997)
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  • Anatole France I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Henry van Dyke I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • James Baldwin I think Americans are terrified of feeling anything. I never met a people more infantile in my life.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Stephen Hawking I think computer viruses should count as life … I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.
    Source: Speech Macworld Expo in Boston, 1996
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Tiger Woods I think it's an honor to be a role model to one person or maybe more than that. If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.
    Tiger Woods
    American professional golfer (1975 - )
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