Quotes with life

Quotes 1661 till 1680 of 4235.

  • Thomas à Kempis It is vanity to desire a long life and to take no heed of a good life.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Lord George Byron It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Anne Enright It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
    Anne Enright
    Irish writer (1962 - )
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  • Augustus Hare It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Armistead Maupin It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That is a writer's device, which places Gabriel under even greater pressure when the mystery begins to reveal itself.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Blake Mycoskie It may sound too good to be true, but once you've seen the happiest people in your life who have nothing, you really start rethinking what the world, and society, tells us that we need to be happy.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • Bertie Carvel It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor I'm a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.
    Bertie Carvel
    English stage and screen actor (1977 - )
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  • Benjamin E. Mays It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Ben E. King It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.
    Ben E. King
    American soul and R&B singer (1938 - 2015)
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  • Oscar Wilde It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bob Keeshan It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • T. S. Eliot It seems just possible that a poem might happen to a very young man: but a poem is not poetry. That is a life.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Brooks Atkinson It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Calvin Klein It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
    Calvin Klein
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Barbara Bush It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Anne Tyler It seems to me that good novels celebrate the mystery in ordinary life, and summing it all up in psychological terms strips the mystery away.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Clementine It stayed with me - the Bible has stayed with me. I've grown out of it because, obviously, you live life for yourself and have your choice to believe what you want to believe in, but I know that the Bible can be used to appreciate life.
    Benjamin Clementine
    British artist, poet, vocalist, composer, and musician (1988 - )
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  • Alan Cohen It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Eknath Easwaran It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
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