Quotes with life-savers

Quotes 1041 till 1060 of 4235.

  • June Jordan I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
    June Jordan
    American poet and civil rights activist (1939 - )
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  • Andrew Jackson I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Sylvia Plath I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.
    Sylvia Plath
    American poet (1932 - 1963)
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  • Anish Kapoor I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Laurence Sterne I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Thomas Taylor I am pretty sure that we err in treating these sayings as paradoxes. It would be nearer the truth to say that it is life itself which is paradoxical and that the sayings of Jesus are simply a recognition of that fact.
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  • Barack Obama I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.
    Speech (1 June 2008)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Virginia Woolf I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Vachel Lindsay I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
    Vachel Lindsay
    American poet (1879 - 1931)
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  • Emily Dickinson I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Butler Yeats I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Gore Vidal I began life as an absolute monarchist - on condition, of course, that I be that monarch.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Abigail Adams I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life....Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Bill Clinton I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.
    Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • John D. Rockefeller I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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