Quotes with life-saving

Quotes 3301 till 3320 of 4271.

  • Alice James The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Ben Stein The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Harriet Martineau The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Arthur Rimbaud The Sun, the hearth of affection and life, pours burning love on the delighted earth.
    Arthur Rimbaud
    French poet (1854 - 1891)
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  • Arnold Bennett The supply of time is a daily miracle. You wake up in the morning and lo! Your purse is magnificently filled with 24 hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life. It is yours! The most precious of your possessions.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Victor Hugo The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Victor Hugo The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • John C. Calhoun The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
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  • Arthur Middleton The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Boris Sidis The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.
    Source: Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure (1922)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Anatole Broyard The tension between 'yes' and 'no,' between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Terry Waite The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
    Terry Waite
     
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  • Arthur Miller The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Alfred Jarry The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
    Alfred Jarry
    French playwright, author (1873 - 1907)
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  • George Santayana The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Callie Thorne The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.
    Callie Thorne
     
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  • Brooke Shields The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Edwin Markham The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
    Edwin Markham
    American poet and editor (1852 - 1940)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Les Brown The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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