Quotes with mid-life

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  • Pearl S. Buck I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Marianne Williamson I fell in love with the thought that a human life could be a priestly conduit, a connecting link between earth and sky. As I grew and stumbled and, most important, as I began to love and be loved, I realized that the ultimate priest is the lover inside us
    Marianne Williamson
    American writer (1952 - )
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  • Bryan Batt I firmly believe that life is an 'and' proposition and not an 'or' one. If you really love something, you just have to try it. The worse that can happen is that you'll be told 'no.'
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Bruce Bennett I guess the one thing I really learned from participating in sports was to just never say no, never stop trying, and to always believe that you can do better than the next fellow. I tried to follow this throughout my life, but I always tried to be respectful about it.
    As quoted in an interview with Marc Blau (2004)
    Bruce Bennett
    American actor (1906 - 2007)
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  • Anthony Doerr I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Isadora Duncan I had learned to have a perfect nausea for the theatre: the continual repetition of the same words and the same gestures, night after night, and the caprices, the way of looking at life, and the entire rigmarole disgusted me.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • Bruce Fairchild Barton I had never thought of advertising as a life work, though I had on the side, written some very successful copy.
    As quoted in The Mirror Makers: A History of American Advertising and Its Creators (1984)
    Bruce Fairchild Barton
    American author, advertising executive, and politician (1886 - 1967)
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  • Andrew Wiles I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.
    Andrew Wiles
    English mathematician (1953 - )
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  • Muhammad Ali I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Brooke Shields I have a group of friends in my life, and we all give each other something different. I've known my two closest friends for many years. One is a friend from high school, and the other I met right after college. My deep, deep friends remind me every day of the good parts of my personality.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Tony Bennett I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.
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  • Anthony Minghella I have always believed that there is a need for life-affirming films.
    Anthony Minghella
    British film director, playwright and screenwriter (1954 - 2008)
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  • Alexander Mackenzie I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin.
    Alexander Mackenzie
    Canadian politician
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  • Henry Miller I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Anne Stevenson I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Assata Shakur I have been a political activist most of my life and many groups have attempted to label me as a criminal because of my outspoken beliefs. I am not a criminal and I have never been one.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Bryant Gumbel I have been a sports fan my whole life. To be able to talk about sports in an intelligent, journalistic fashion and to do things of a serious nature is a dream job.
    Bryant Gumbel
    American television journalist and sportscaster (1948 - )
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Astrid Lindgren I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.
    Astrid Lindgren
    Swedish children's book and novelist (1907 - 2002)
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