Quotes with mid-life

Quotes 1041 till 1060 of 4256.

  • Alfred N. Whitehead Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Branford Marsalis Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Bill Gates I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.
    Interview on "NOW" with Bill Moyers on May 9, 2003
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Alberto Sordi I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.
    Alberto Sordi
    Italian actor, film director and singer (1920 - 2003)
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  • George Santayana I agree that the last years of life are the best, if one is a philosopher.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Walt Disney I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.
    Walt Disney
    American producer (1901 - 1966)
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  • Bruce Springsteen I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • June Jordan I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
    June Jordan
    American poet and civil rights activist (1939 - )
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  • Andrew Jackson I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Sylvia Plath I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.
    Sylvia Plath
    American poet (1932 - 1963)
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  • Anish Kapoor I am Indian, and I'm proud of it. Indian life is mythologically rich and powerful.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live the best life that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and part from him when he goes wrong.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Laurence Sterne I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Thomas Taylor I am pretty sure that we err in treating these sayings as paradoxes. It would be nearer the truth to say that it is life itself which is paradoxical and that the sayings of Jesus are simply a recognition of that fact.
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  • Barack Obama I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.
    Speech (1 June 2008)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Virginia Woolf I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Vachel Lindsay I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
    Vachel Lindsay
    American poet (1879 - 1931)
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