Quotes with woman-life

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  • Victor Hugo The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Douglas Jerrold The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • John C. Calhoun The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
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  • Barry Cornwall The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue; A string which hath no discord.
    Source: Dramatic scenes: with other poems
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Arthur Middleton The task of a priest, in some respects, may be different today, but the principles upon which Herbert built his life as a priest are of universal application.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • John Cheever The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.
    John Cheever
    American writer (1912 - 1982)
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  • Boris Sidis The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.
    Source: Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure (1922)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Anatole Broyard The tension between 'yes' and 'no,' between 'I can' and 'I cannot,' makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Terry Waite The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
    Terry Waite
     
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  • George Bernard Shaw The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Arthur Miller The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Alfred Jarry The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.
    Alfred Jarry
    French playwright, author (1873 - 1907)
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  • George Santayana The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of real life, though an artificial setting and form.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Callie Thorne The thing I most connect with is the idea of not giving up. And that's a thing I have in my own life. You have to trust your instincts and keep trying.
    Callie Thorne
     
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  • Brooke Shields The thing I'm the most proud of in my personal life is that my daughter actually thinks that I'm fabulous.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Edwin Markham The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
    Edwin Markham
    American poet and editor (1852 - 1940)
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  • Marguerite Duras The thing that's between us is fascination, and the fascination resides in our being alike. Whether you're a man or a woman, the fascination resides in finding out that we're alike.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Les Brown The things you want are always possible; it is just that the way to get them is not always apparent. The only real obstacle in your path to a fulfilling life is you, and that can be a considerable obstacle because you carry the baggage of insecurities and past experience.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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