Quotes with life-time

Quotes 2641 till 2660 of 6709.

  • Alice Meynell It is easy to replace man, and it will take no great time, when Nature has lapsed, to replace Nature.
    Alice Meynell
    British poet, writer (1847 - 1922)
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  • Learned Hand It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
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  • Marcia Wieder It is essential to our well-being, and to our lives, that we play and enjoy life. Every single day do something that makes your heart sing.
    Marcia Wieder
    CEO and Founder of Dream University
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  • Carl von Clausewitz It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Angela Carter It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Victor Hugo It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Carl Andre It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
    Carl Andre
    American minimalist artist (1935 - )
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  • Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse It is good rule in life to never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
    Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse
    English author and humorists (1881 - 1975)
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  • John Irving It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.
    The Hotel New Hampshire (1986)
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Graham Greene It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Epicurus It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Patrick Kavanagh It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.
    Patrick Kavanagh
    Irish poet and novelist (1904 - 1967)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • John Ruskin It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Ben Stein It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh It is just like dust gathers on the mirror; every day you have to clean it. On the mirror of your mind dust gathers, dust of experience: it becomes knowledge. Clean it. That's why every day meditation is needed. Meditation is nothing but cleaning the mirror of your mind. Clean it continuously! If you can clean it every moment of your life, then there is no need to sit separately for meditation.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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