Facts Of Life Quotes - Page 5

• Let's face it: None of us are ever going to get to the place in life where we have no more disappointments. We can't expect to be sheltered from every little thing. Disappointment is a fact of life--one that must be dealt with.

  Joyce Meyer

  Disappointment, Littles, Faces

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• Was I insane? Maybe. But then, there were many different kinds of insanity. Aunt Rose had always taken for granted that the whole world was in a state of constantly fluctuating madness, and that a neurosis was not an illness, but a fact of life, like pimples. Some have more, some have less, but only truly abnormal people have none at all. This commonsense philosophy had consoled me many times before, and it did now, too.

  Anne Fortier

  Philosophy, Taken, Aunt

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• I wondered if parents had an easier time with the secrets their children kept than children did with the secrets of their parents. A parent's secrets seemed like some sort of betrayal, where my own just seemed like a fact of life and growing up and away. I was supposed to be independent, but he was supposed to be available. Him having his own life seemed selfish, where me having my own was the right order of things.

  Deb Caletti

  Children, Growing Up, Betrayal

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you even really know how vampires are made?' 'Well, when a mommy vampire and a daddy vampire love each other very much.

  Cassandra Clare

  Daddy, Vampire, Made

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1392, Simon and Schuster

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• I remembered her once saying that life was like your shoes. You couldn't simply expect or imagine that your shoes would fit perfectly. Shoes that pinched your feet were a fact of life.

  Henning Mankell

  Shoes, Feet, Facts

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Nov 28, 2012

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• Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith....Power is not to be crossed; one must respect and obey. Power means strength, whereas love is a human frailty the people mistrust. It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith.

  Saul Alinsky

  Fear, Mean, Love Is

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• What until then seemed impossible to achieve has become a fact of life. We have won the right to association in trade unions independent from the authorities, founded and shaped by the working people themselves.

  Lech Walesa

  Independent, People, Unions

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• I believe nostalgia has many appearances and that it's not just the privilege of adults. I think children too can have nostalgia. It's one of mankind's most shared emotions. It's one of the things that makes us human. When you live, you lose things. It's a fact of life. So it's natural for everyone to have nostalgia.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.midnighteye.com

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• Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.

  Harry Browne

  Children, Simple, Government

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• The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Life, Fiction, Facts

  Jerome K. Jerome “The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome”, Library of Alexandria

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• What masquerades as sex education is not education at all. It is selective propaganda which artificially encourages children to participate in adult sex, while it censors out the facts of life about the unhappy consequences. It is robbing children of their childhood.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Sex, Children, Childhood

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• Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life.

  Eoin Colfer

  Inspire, Genius, Facts

  Eoin Colfer (2009). “Artemis Fowl and the Time Paradox”, p.102, Penguin UK

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• If the splitter of hairs has a sharp enough knife, the fact of life itself can be chopped into nothing.

  Gore Vidal

  Hair, Knives, Facts

  Gore Vidal (2002). “Creation: a novel”, Doubleday Books

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• Life is series of opportunities. The often neglected fact of life is that opportunities multiply as you take advantage of them.

  Harvey Mackay

  Opportunity, Facts, Life Is

  FaceBook post by Harvey Mackay from Aug 05, 2013

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• American journalists tend to treat inequality as a fact of life. But it needn't be.

  Eric Alterman

  Facts, Treats, Inequality

  "Think Again: The Economist's 'Happy' Ignorance" by Eric Alterman, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2011.

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• It's just a fact of life. Everybody grows up and goes through changes, and our audience has seen it all.

  Brian Austin Green

  Growing Up, Facts, Grows

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• I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the unromantic scientific facts of life, I find it hard to delude myself about feminine frailty.

  Estelle Ramey

  Fun, Flower, Games

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• Every single American can exclaim, 'Nothing justifies what they did in New York and Washington,' not even the bombs that our government has dropped on them for ten years or the embargo that has caused the deaths of so many children. That's of course true...The issue is simply an acceptance of reality and a fundamental fact of life: When governments do bad things to people, people sometimes retaliate.

  Jacob G. Hornberger

  New York, Children, Acceptance

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• I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. With the laugh comes the tears and in developing motion pictures or television shows, you must combine all the facts of life - drama, pathos and humor.

  Walt Disney

  Drama, Optimistic, Laughing

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . .

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Facts, Details

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.697, GENERAL PRESS

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• We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully.

  Billy Graham

  Needs, May, Facts

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• Regardless of the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can't have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it's a fact of life. We all cut off our own limbs to burn on some altar. The crucial thing is to choose an altar that's worth it and a limb you can accept losing. To go consenting to the sacrifice.

  Tana French

  Cutting, Sacrifice, May

  Tana French (2008). “The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2”, p.412, Hachette UK

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• I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day to day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.

  Alain de Botton

  Laughter, Optimistic, Laughing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life.

  Catherine Deneuve

  People, Unconventional, Facts

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• Morrissey was my Mrs. Garrett, the house mother from the Facts of Life, a soothing adult figure giving me words of wisdom.

  Rob Sheffield

  Mother, Giving, House

  Rob Sheffield (2010). “Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut”, p.125, Penguin

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