Whole Life Quotes - Page 23

• Often a single experience will open the young soul to music for a whole lifetime

  Zoltan Kodaly

  Soul, Lifetime, Young

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• He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Writing, Heroic

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)”, p.37

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• You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane. And I think it is. I've had a lot of time to think about that. And what I keep coming back to is [her] dying declaration: 'So you understand that when we increase the number of variables, the axioms themselves never change.'

  Stephen King

  Life, Thinking, Numbers

  "Rage". Book by Stephen King, 1977.

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• In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.

  Oswald Spengler

  Country, Clever, Cities

  Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.25, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Little Wing is like one of these beautiful girls that come around sometimes ... you play your gig; it's the same thing as the olden days, and these beautiful girls come around.. you do actually fall in love with them because that's the only love you can have. It's not always the physical thing of "Oh, there's one over there ...", it's not one of those scenes. They actually tell you something. They release different things inside themselves ... "Little Wing" was a very sweet girl that came around that gave me her whole life and more if I wanted it.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Beautiful, Girl

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• Still, accomplishment is unreliable. "Succeeding," whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself (success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it), and there's the very real danger that "succeeding" will take up your whole life, while the big questions go untended.

  George Saunders

  Real, Mean, Accomplishment

  George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the Way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.48, A&C Black

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• My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone.

  Joe Paterno

  Mean, Names, Trying

  "Joe Paterno Cried Uncontrollably After He Was Fired, And Other Details From His Controversial New Biography" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. August 15, 2012.

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• Then again maybe there's something that I've been doing in the privacy of my own bedroom my whole life that I think is perfectly normal but is actually illegal in thirty-two states.

  Megan McCafferty

  Thinking, Perfectly Normal, Two

  Megan McCafferty (2010). “The Complete Jessica Darling Series: Sloppy Firsts, Second Helpings, Charmed Thirds, Fourth Comings, Perfect Fifths”, p.443, Crown

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• I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie', I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie.

  Will Estes

  Movie, Dog, Kids

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• The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor -- spending and being spent -- to enrich their fellow humans, giving time, trouble, care and concern, to do good to others -- and not just their own friends -- in whatever way there seems need.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Giving, Shining

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• It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives

  Rudolf Steiner

  Educational, People, Important

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• All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Law, Understanding, Tools

  "Reader's Digest" Magazine, June 1964.

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• If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God!

  George Whitefield

  Evil, Damnation, Action

  George Whitefield (1904). “Selected Sermons of George Whitefield: With an Introduction and Notes by the Rev. A.R. Buckland ...”, p.883, CCEL

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• A calm hour with God is worth a whole lifetime with man

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Men, Calm, Lifetime

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1866). “The life and remains, letters, lectures, and poems of [the Rev] Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.157

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• I've never sung a single song in my whole life on purpose to shock anyone. My 'hot numbers' are all, if you will notice, written about something that is real in the lives of millions of people.

  Sophie Tucker

  Song, Real, Numbers

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• I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

  Lisa See

  Los Angeles, Knows, Movie Business

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• I want my whole life lined with a topical anesthetic.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Want, Whole, Anesthetics

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• Kyle Busch is going to get his ass whipped shortly I hope. He better sit his ass in his motor home or I’m going to come find him and he’s going to have to hold my watch because I’m going to whip his ass. He’s the biggest whining little piece of [expletive] I’ve ever seen in my whole life.

  Kevin Harvick

  Home, Watches, Pieces

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• I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life-hit.

  David Ortiz

  Sports, Swings, Life Is Hard

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• I think if you are going to base your whole life on what you do on the golf course, you are up for a lot of ups and downs.

  Tom Lehman

  Golf, Thinking, Ups & Downs

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• Family traditions are more than arguments with the dead, more than collections of family letters you try to decipher. A tradition is also a channel of memory through which fierce and unrequited longings surge, longings that define and shape a whole life.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Memories, Trying, Shapes

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• It's my whole life of being the little guy and having a little chip on my shoulder, from year to year trying to prove myself, and at the end of the day to be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame is a very special honor for me.

  Doug Flutie

  Football, College, Years

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• It's really easy to complain. If you're not careful, then you end up complaining about your whole life. Concentrating on the good things is really good. Catch people doing good.

  Lisa Williams

  People, Complaining, Easy

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• Let go of the things you don't love about your childhood, and keep the things you love. Let go of the things you don't love about your adolescent and adult years, and keep the good things. Just keep the things you love about your whole life.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Years

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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• A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol.

  Lorna Dee Cervantes

  Men, May, Metaphor

  Francisco X. Alarcón, Lorna Dee Cervantes (1989). “Chicanas Y Chicanos en Diálogo”

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