Quotes with mid-life

Quotes 1001 till 1020 of 4256.

  • Boethius He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad: his countenance unconquered he can shew.
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Muhammad Ali He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Horace He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Karl Kraus He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Victor Hugo He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Akhenaton Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.
    Prodigal Summer
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • A. E. Housman Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Brit Marling Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Sean O'Casey Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!
    Sean O'Casey
    Irish Dramatist (1880 - 1964)
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  • Budd Schulberg Hey, you want to hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.
    Budd Schulberg
    American screenwriter, television producer and novelist (1914 - 2009)
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  • Abraham Cowley His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Algernon H. Blackwood His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.
    Algernon H. Blackwood
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Langston Hughes Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
    Langston Hughes
    American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright and columnist (1901 - 1967)
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  • Joan Lunden Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.
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  • George Bernard Shaw Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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