Quotes 801 till 820 of 1724.
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Life is made of millions of moments, but we live only one of these moments at a time. As we begin to change this moment, we begin to change our lives.
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Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.
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Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.
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Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from them.
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1996) 248 -
Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.
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Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.
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Literature exists inside the language. It’s made of words. It’s not made of ideas and it’s not made of concepts, of psychological analysis. It’s made of words. In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words. So, literature belongs first and foremost to the language in which it is being written.
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Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
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Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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Live stage is being made as you go along. You feel the energy. There's nothing like a live audience.
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Long before Einstein told us that matter is energy, Machiavelli and Hobbes and other modern political philosophers defined man as a lump of matter whose most politically relevant attribute is a form of energy called ''self-interestedness.'' This was not a
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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
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Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
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Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new.
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Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.
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Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.
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Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.
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Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
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