Quotes with life-forms

Quotes 3441 till 3460 of 4353.

  • Alexis de Tocqueville The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Horace Walpole The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
    Horace Walpole
    British writer (1717 - 1797)
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  • Benjamin Bratt The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.
    Benjamin Bratt
    American actor, producer, and activist (1963 - )
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  • Joan Didion The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Aristotle The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Wilferd Arlan Peterson The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of ''nothing attempted, nothing gained'' and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
    Wilferd Arlan Peterson
    American author (1900 - 1995)
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  • John B. S. Haldane The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
    John B. S. Haldane
    British scientist, writer (1892 - 1964)
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  • Florence King The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Betty Buckley The word, and the concept of feminism, was a gift because it gave me a sense of identity and a way of defining how I wished to live my life.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Felix Frankfurter The words of the Constitution are so unrestricted by their intrinsic meaning or by their history or by tradition or by prior decisions that they leave the individual Justice free, if indeed they do not compel him, to gather meaning not from reading the Constitution but from reading life.
    Felix Frankfurter
    Austrian-American lawyer, professor, and jurist (1882 - 1965)
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  • Betty Buckley The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.
    Betty Buckley
    American actress and singer (1947 - )
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  • Annie Leibovitz The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Alexander Haig The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality of life for its people.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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  • Ben Sweetland The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car… a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.
    Ben Sweetland
    American psychologist and author
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great - quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • William Hazlitt The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Bryant H. McGill The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • John Mortimer The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: ''There is life, but it's not for you.''
    John Mortimer
    English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter, and author (1923 - 2009)
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