Quotes with life-savers

Quotes 1961 till 1980 of 4235.

• Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

  Jack London
  American writer (ps. by John Griffith Chaney) (1876 - 1916)
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• Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

  Imelda Marcos
  Filipino politician and first lady (1929 - )
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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

  Søren Kierkegaard
  Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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• Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

  Virginia Woolf
  English writer (1882 - 1941)
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• Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

  Denis Waitley
  American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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• Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.

  Lady Randolph Churchill
  American-born British socialite, mother of Winston Churchill
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• Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

  Leon Trotsky
  Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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• Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

  Bill Gates
  American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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• Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor.

  Ogden Nash
  American poet (1902 - 1971)
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• Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.

  Stephen Vincent Benét
  American poet, short story writer, and novelist (1898 - 1943)
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• Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the middle.

  Anna Quindlen
  American author and journalist (1952 - )
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• Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.

  Legend (2011)

  David Gemmell
  British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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• Life is nothing without friendship.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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• Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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• Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don't complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

  Bob Marley
  Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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• Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

  Ronald Reagan
  American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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• Life is one long process of getting tired.

  Samuel Butler
  English poet (1835 - 1902)
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• Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic.

  Cesare Pavese
  Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• semi-transparent
• consciousness
• surrounding
• accountable
• frustration
• interested

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