Quotes with lives

Quotes 241 till 260 of 583.

  • Anatole Broyard It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't wait to leave.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Samuel Butler It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Alain de Botton It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
    The Architecture of Happiness
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Albert Claude It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Samuel Johnson It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Barbara Castle It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Brendan Myers It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Bethany Hamilton It's easy to look at the things of this world to solve our challenges and obstacles in life, but when we submit our lives to Christ, His grace, mercy, peace and love will bring true fulfillment to our lives.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Carlisle Floyd It's necessary to track characters all the way through an opera. If you're dealing with more than one or two characters, it's very easy to forget that the others have lives of their own that feed into the story.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Anthony Robbins It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Carre Otis Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.
    Carre Otis
    American model and actress (1968 - )
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  • Anne Ford Learning disabilities cannot be cured, but they can be treated successfully and children with LD can go on to live happy, successful lives.
    Anne Ford
    English musician and singer (1737 - 1824)
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  • John Ruskin Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge gained for yourself.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • John Donne Let me arrest thy thoughts; wonder with me, why plowing, building, ruling and the rest, or most of those arts, whence our lives are blest, by cursed Cain's race invented be, and blest Seth vexed us with Astronomy.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Jim Rohn Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Sarah Ban Breathnach Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the ''good life'' we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.
    Sarah Ban Breathnach
    American author and philanthropist
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  • George Orwell Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.
    Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1963) Closing lines of the preface.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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