Quotes with mid-life

Quotes 2441 till 2460 of 4256.

  • Ada Cambridge O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?.
    Ada Cambridge
    English-born Australian writer (1844 - 1926)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life... is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Mark Twain Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Carol Leifer Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.
    Carol Leifer
    American comedian, writer, producer and actress (1956 - )
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  • Martin Luther King Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Matthew Prior Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • John Selden Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life 'Tis most meddled with by other people.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bridgette Wilson Of all the movies I've done in my life, the one where I play a crazy awful psycho woman finds me my husband.
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan Of course I loved 'I Love Lucy' and saw every episode over and over again. I found it heartbreaking that Ricky got to be famous and have an exciting life at the Tropicana while Lucy was stuck in that terrible apartment with the Mertzes.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Bobby Davro Of course it was difficult accepting the change in TV trends. It all ended quite early for me. I was in my mid-30s, and I hadn't achieved everything I wanted. There's nothing on TV for people like me anymore. All they want are new young faces.
    Bobby Davro
    English actor and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Francoise Sagan Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.
    Francoise Sagan
    French writer (1935 - 2004)
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  • John W. Draper Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none.
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  • Aldous Huxley Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Alfred de Vigny Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Dinah Mulock Craik Oh my son's my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all her life.
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  • Jean Anouilh Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.
    Ardèle ou la Marguerite
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • Zelda Fitzgerald Oh, the secret life of man and woman -dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest.
    Zelda Fitzgerald
    American novelist, socialite, and painter (1900 - 1948)
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  • Herman Melville Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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