Quotes with short-lived

Quotes 341 till 360 of 466.

  • Thomas Szasz The greatest analgesic, soporific, stimulant, tranquilizer, narcotic, and to some extent even antibiotic -in short, the closest thing to a genuine panacea -known to medical science is work.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Lucian The happy think a lifetime short, but to the unhappy one night can be an eternity.
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  • Hippocrates The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
    Hippocrates
    Greek physician (460 - 377)
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  • Nick Lappos The long term is really just a bunch of short terms taped together.
    Nick Lappos
    American helicopter technician
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  • Virginia Woolf The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bruce Lee The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a pattern of systems.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Martina Navratilova The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.
    Martina Navratilova
    American Tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Margaret Mead The negative cautions of science are never popular. If the experimentalist would not commit himself, the social philosopher, the preacher, and the pedagogue tried the harder to give a short-cut answer.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Terry Pratchett The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
    Terry Pratchett
    English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works (1948 - 2015)
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  • Angela Merkel The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Ben Stein The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Anais Nin The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Roland Barthes The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bernard De Voto The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.
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  • Ben Stein The prosecutors say that Mr. Strauss-Kahn forced the complainant to have oral and other sex with him. How? Did he have a gun? Did he have a knife? He's a short fat old man.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Seneca The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Alighieri Dante The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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