Quotes 6201 till 6220 of 6709.
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When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.
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When John Lennon sings, Oh, my love/For the first time in my life/My eyes are wide open — these songs have an intimacy for me that's not just between people, I realize now, not just sexual intimacy. A spiritual intimacy.
Rolling Stone interview (2005) -
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
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When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
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When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.
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When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve.
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When my body gets to the point where I can no longer function or feel gratitude, then I'll leave it and become grateful again. But until then, I will appreciate what I have and not whine about what I don't have. I will feel blessed by life and the opportunity to help others see that they are blessed, too.
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When my time on earth is gone and my activities here are past, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass.
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When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
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When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the ''freedom of the press'' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
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When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.
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When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
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When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.
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When one turns over in bed, it is time to turn out.
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When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
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When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.
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When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change
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When reproached for spending too much time with books and clerks, Charles answered, As long as knowledge is honored in this country, so long will it prosper.
A Distant Mirror -
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
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