Quotes with woman-life

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  • Carolyn Chute That's the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends.
    Carolyn Chute
    American writer and populist
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  • Barbara Mandrell That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • Doris Lessing That's what learning is. You suddenly understand something you understood all your life, but in a new way.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Candace Bushnell The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Bruce Barton The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Iris Murdoch The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Jean Cocteau The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Raymond Chandler The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Edmund White The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
    Edmund White
    American novelist and LGBT essayist (1940 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Henry Miller The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • C. Wright Mills The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college; the task is to help him become a self-educating man.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Robert Browning The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Primo Levi The aims of life are the best defense against death.
    Primo Levi
    Italian chemist, author (1919 - 1987)
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  • Oscar Wilde The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Albert Einstein The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • C. L. R. James The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Bruce Lee The aphorism as a man thinketh in his heart so is he contains the secret of life.
    Source: Striking Thoughts (2000) p. 4; Lee here quotes Proverbs 23:7 As he thinketh
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Wyndham Lewis The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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