Quotes 3201 till 3220 of 4271.
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The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
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The only prudence in life is concentration.
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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
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The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great - and they know I know it.
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The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.
Source: De ondraaglijke lichtheid van het bestaan (1984) -
The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life.
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The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every day of my life, and I've read the Bible now five times and it taught me the English language.
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The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
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The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
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The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.
Source: Foundation: The History of England (2011) 47 -
The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
― Abraham Cahan
Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician -
The outstanding truths of life, the great and unquestioned phenomena of society, are not to be argued away as myths and vagaries when they do not fit within our little moulds. If necessary, we must remake the moulds.
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The pain we feel When someone leaves our life is in direct proportion to the joy they bring while a part of our life for a few moments. In my life you made me feel as if I truly meant something to someone
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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
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The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.
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The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.
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