Quotes with life

Quotes 1641 till 1660 of 4235.

  • David Hume It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Alan Cohen It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Cesare Pavese It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts.
    Address at Princeton University, "The Educated Citizen" (22 March 1954).
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • S. I. Hayakawa It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
    S. I. Hayakawa
    Canada-American Senator (1902 - 1992)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • C. P. Snow It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.
    Public Affairs (1971)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Lynn Harold Hough It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.
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  • Robert Collier It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new resource.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Boris Johnson It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • George Mcgovern It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.
    George Mcgovern
    American historian, author (1922 - 2012)
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  • Cate Blanchett It is so interesting when you meet an actor in real life and they look completely different.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Bill Brandt It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.
    Camera in London
    Bill Brandt
    British photographer and photojournalist (1904 - 1983)
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  • James Russell Lowell It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Boris Sidis It is time that the medical and teaching profession should realize that functional neurosis is not congenital, not inborn, not hereditary, but is the result of a defective, fear-inspiring education in early child life.
    Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure (1922)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Adam Clarke It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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  • Emile Durkheim It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
    Emile Durkheim
    French sociologist (1858 - 1917)
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  • C. J. Mahaney It is true that I have been studying both humility and pride for many years for the purpose of weakening pride in my own life and cultivating humility by the grace of God.
    C. J. Mahaney
    American Christian minister (1953 - )
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