Quotes with mid-life

Quotes 1801 till 1820 of 4256.

  • C. Everett Koop Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than raising of the next generation.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Samuel Johnson Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide - that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life - are alike forbidden.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Morarji Desai Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life.
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Stella Adler Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
    Stella Adler
    American actress and acting (1901 - 1992)
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  • Sarah Bernhardt Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
    Sarah Bernhardt
    French stage actress (0 - 1923)
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  • William Feather Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
    William Feather
    American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Life begins on the other side of despair.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Marcelene Cox Life begins when a person first realizes how soon it will end.
    Marcelene Cox
    American author
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Edna Ferber Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing; for life itself is a writer's love until death.
    Edna Ferber
    American writer (1885 - 1968)
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  • Samuel Johnson Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Joan Didion Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
    The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) 4
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Rollo May Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
    Rollo May
    American psychologist
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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