Quotes with life-time

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  • Og Mandino To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Baltasar Gracián To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Marlene Dietrich To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg To be content with life - or to live merrily, rather -all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Oscar Wilde To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bertrand Russell To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Butch Trucks To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive around in my car, I'll listen to college lectures on philosophy and literature and world history, things like that, to kind of catch up on the college experience I missed.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Bill Hader To be honest, I watch way more dramatic films when I'm chilling at home. I think when you work in comedy, you just want something different in your private life. Makes you feel balanced, I guess.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Barbara Kingsolver To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Buddha To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski To be in the EU, it means to have same rules of... for economy, for social life, to be together in the majority of European countries.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Gail Sheehy To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
    Gail Sheehy
    American author, journalist, and lecturer (1936 - 2020)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Oscar Wilde To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Yann Martel To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
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    Yann Martel
    Canadian author (1963 - )
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  • Francis Bacon To choose time is to save time.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Samuel Johnson To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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