Quotes with short-lived

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  • Audre Lorde Life is very short and what we have to do must be done in the now.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Publilius Syrus Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • C. Neil Strait Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.
    C. Neil Strait
    American priest and author (1934 - 2003)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Life must be lived forward, but can only be understood backwards.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Anthony Hopkins Life's too short to deal with other people's insecurities.
    Anthony Hopkins
    Welsh and American actor (1937 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard Living this life in the same sorta way that Kerouac lived, you get to hang out at shows and drink and you're able to not really face reality and adulthood the way most of my friends are.
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Kin Hubbard Making a long stay short is a great aid to popularity.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Thomas Hobbes Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Horace Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Barbra Streisand Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Mark Twain Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ansel Adams Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Samuel Johnson More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Raymond Chandler Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • James A. Garfield Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.
    James A. Garfield
    President of the USA (1831 - 1881)
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  • Robert Benchley Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about
    Robert Benchley
    American humorist, criticus (1889 - 1945)
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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