Quotes with mid-life

Quotes 3821 till 3840 of 4256.

  • Ban Ki-moon Weapons of mass destruction violate more than individual lives - they cross international borders and jeopardize all people. They also drain resources that could be used instead for medicines, schools and other life-saving supplies. We must come together with even greater determination to prevent a WMD nightmare.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • James Joyce Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Anthony Holden Well I'm a very similar age to Prince Charles. I'm a year older than him. I was at university at the same time as him. I think in the sixties, like all the Royals, he really had very little impact on my life at all and he seemed, if anything a lot older in his attitudes.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Candace Bushnell Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Ann Beattie Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Billy Gibbons Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and browse. Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life's simple pleasures.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Bud Abbott Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.
    Bud Abbott
    American comedian and actor (1897 - 1974)
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  • Ann Patchett Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Bobby Farrelly Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.
    Bobby Farrelly
    American film director, screenwriter and producer (1958 - )
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  • Bryn Terfel Welsh is my mother tongue, and my children speak it. If you come and live in this community you'll work out pretty quickly that it's beneficial to learn the language, because if you're going to the pub or a cafe you need to be a part of the local life.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • John Howe What a folly it is to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
    John Howe
    Canadian-French illustrator
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  • Bertolt Brecht What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
    Jungle of Cities
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Lord George Byron What a strange thing is the propagation of life! A bubble of seed which may be spilt in a whore's lap, or in the orgasm of a voluptuous dream, might (for aught we know) have formed a Caesar or a Bonaparte - there is nothing remarkable recorded of their sires, that I know of.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Barbara de Angelis What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • John Masefield What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt held in cohesion by unresting cells. Which work they know not why, which never halt, myself unwitting where their Master dwells?
    John Masefield
    English poet and writer (1878 - 1967)
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Elizabeth Bishop What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?
    Elizabeth Bishop
    American poet and short-story writer (1911 - 1979)
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