Quotes with life-time

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  • William Butler Yeats The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • George Orwell The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Virginia Woolf The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The invalid is a parasite on society. In a certain state it is indecent to go on living. To vegetate on in cowardly dependence on physicians and medicaments after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost ought to entail the profound contempt of society.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Bob Schieffer The Iraq war was fought by one-half of one percent of us. And unless we were part of that small group or had a relative who was, we went about our lives as usual most of the time: no draft, no new taxes, no changes. Not so for the small group who fought the war and their families.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Candace Bushnell The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex and the City they always make it better or worse than real life and I am actually saying that in a joking way.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Barbara de Angelis The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Barbara Corcoran The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Aleister Crowley The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • William Shakespeare The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may have in the sworn twelve a thief or two guiltier than him they try.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Earl Nightingale The key that unlocks energy is ''Desire.'' It's also the key to a long and interesting life. If we expect to create any drive, any real force within ourselves, we have to get excited.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Bette Davis The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Candace Bushnell The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Julius Erving The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical.
    Julius Erving
    American basketball player (1950 - )
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  • Bobby Orr The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that's missing today.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Mary McCarthy The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process.
    Mary McCarthy
    American author (1912 - 1989)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Lord George Byron The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing ''about, around, and underneath'' man, except man himself.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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