Quotes with mid-life

Quotes 1021 till 1040 of 4256.

  • Ben Bernanke Home purchases that are very highly leveraged or unaffordable subject the borrower and lender to a great deal of risk. Moreover, even in a strong economy, unforeseen life events and risks in local real estate markets make highly leveraged borrowers vulnerable.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Carol Leifer Honestly, so much of my book is about the best things in my life have happened since I'm 40.
    Carol Leifer
    American comedian, writer, producer and actress (1956 - )
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  • Erik H. Erikson Hope is both the earliest and the most indispensable virtue inherent in the state of being alive. If life is to be sustained hope must remain, even where confidence is wounded, trust impaired.
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Birch Bayh How come life is so important in the nine months before birth, but then we sort of forget about the importance, we're not worried about whether that baby lives in poverty once he or she is born.
    Birch Bayh
    American politician (1928 - 2019)
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  • Jim Valvano How do you go from where you are to where you want to be? I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal, and you have to be willing to work for it.
    Jim Valvano
    American college basketball player, coach, and broadcaster (1946 - 1993)
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  • Richard Bach How do you know if your mission in life is finished? If you're still alive, it isn't.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Harry S. Truman How do you live a long life? ''Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.''
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • George Washington Carver How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all these.
    George Washington Carver
    American botanist and inventor (1864 - 1943)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Marcus Aurelius How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Albert Einstein How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Derek Wall How to be green? Many people have asked us this important question. It's really very simple and requires no expert knowledge or complex skills. Here's the answer. Consume less. Share more. Enjoy life.
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  • Henry David Thoreau However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Havelock Ellis However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Jonathan Swift Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Camille Paglia Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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