Quotes with life

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  • Aaron Sorkin We live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You?... You can't handle it. Because deep down, in places you don't talk about, you want me on that wall. You need me there. We use words like honor, code, loyalty. We use these words as a backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the
    A Few Good Men (1989) Act 2
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Brooke Shields We live in New York. To be able to have a steady job and take your kids to school, and be around and work hard, is the perfect life.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Martha Graham We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
    Martha Graham
    American modern dancer and choreographer (1894 - 1991)
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  • Winston Churchill We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Norman Macewan we make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
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  • David Herbert Lawrence We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America - as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and we're rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Ida R. Wylie We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.
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  • E. M. Forster We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Maxwell Maltz We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Anne Lamott We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
    Anne Lamott
    American novelist and non-fiction writer (1954 - )
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  • Ann Landers We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Eric Hoffer We need not only a purpose in life to give meaning to our existence but also something to give meaning to our suffering. We need as much something to suffer for as something to live for.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Ben Carson We need to find ways to elevate the expectations, particularly of those individuals who may start off on a lower socioeconomic rung, who might be seen as disadvantaged. But, you know, the reason I say be seen as disadvantaged, it's because life is so short, and there's so much that can change.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Molière We often marry in despair, so that we repent of it all our life after.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Stephen Hawking We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.
    Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010) Over contact met buitenaardsen
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel We participate and are responsible for a lot of the things that happen to us. If you hate your job, you are much more likely to get sick and die at a younger age than someone who's happy at work and has a nice family life and is mentally well adjusted.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Bernard Lown We physicians who shepherd human life from birth to death have a moral imperative to resist with all our being the drift toward the brink. The threatened inhabitants on this fragile planet must speak out for those yet unborn, for posterity has no lobby with politicians.
    Nobel Peace Prize acceptance
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  • Oscar Wilde We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • David Mamet We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Bill Cosby We see a successful, elegant man now, but as a child, an adolescent, his life was not a done deal. Sidney respected his mistakes. When failure came, he never said, This is too difficult, too hard, he had the resiliency to try again. His life is somewhere between astounding and unbelievable.
    Comment on Sidney Poitier, as quoted in a press release at AARP (24 July 2008)
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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