Whole Life Quotes - Page 39

• Beginning authors often get in their own way … They forget that they’ve been telling stories since they could talk. … The important thing to remember is, you know how to do this. You’ve been doing this your whole life.

  Cynthia Leitich Smith

  Important, Stories, Way

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• It would be so easy to let my fate just carry me away... following this same path my whole life through. But I know I can't. What I do, I do...with no regrets.

  Yuna

  Regret, Fate, Would Be

  "Final Fantasy X". Video Game, 2001.

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• And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong) That I, at last, a resting-place had found: 'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life long, Roaming the illimitable waters round; Here will I live, of all but heaven disowned. And end my days upon the peaceful flood - To break my dream the vessel reached its bound; And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

  William Wordsworth

  Dream, Strong, Home

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.20

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• In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.

  Karl Marx

  Class, Spare Time, Mass

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.581, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When you're in love, when somebody says something like, "How can you be with that woman?" you say, "What do you mean? I am with this goddess of love, the fulfillment of my whole life. Why are you saying this? Why do you want to throw a rock at her or punish me for being in love with her?

  John Lennon

  Mean, Being In Love, Rocks

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• I went to Columbia University because they were doing a study on people who suffered from panic attacks, and because I suffered from panic attacks my whole life, I decided to be a part of it. They had this questionnaire where they asked, How many units of alcohol do you have in a month? The top answer was 40 or more, and I got really scared because I was having on average 60 or 70 drinks a week. And I realized that that was a bad sign.

  Moby

  Average, People, Alcohol

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• When I was three, I fell and I got Bell's palsy in my face. My mom said the first day she called the rabbi, and he said a prayer for me but nothing happened. The second day she called the Mormons, and they said a prayer for me and my face was healed, so my whole life was going around as a Jew who was giving talks in Mormon churches about being healed by the Mormons.

  Roseanne Barr

  Mom, Prayer, Giving

  Interview with Judd Apatow, www.elle.com. June 12, 2015.

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• People like to lay their whole life, and all of their own secrets out in front of the world. They make money off of it, and find satisfaction that way. I personally don't believe in that. I think it can be hurtful to yourself and those around you.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I know my whole life has been like that, you know, scrappy, fighting for everything you get in life and you appreciate it more.

  Sean Hannity

  Fighting, Appreciate, Knows

  "Sylvester Stallone's Sly Moves". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. May 10, 2005.

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• If I hadn't had Freddie Mercury's lyrics to hold on to as a kid I don't know where I would be. It taught me about all forms of music... it would open my mind. I never really had a bigger teacher in my whole life.

  Axl Rose

  Teacher, Kids, Mind

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• How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do they keep when they are alone? Daily in life I watch men whose every smile is an artifice, and every wink is an hypocrisy. Doth such a fellow where a mask in his own privacy, and to his own conscience?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Lying, Men, Hypocrisy

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.4165, Delphi Classics

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• He must put his whole life into his work, who would do it well, and make it potential to influence other lives.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Work, Influence, Wells

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• Through the higher love the whole life of man is to be elevated from temporal selfishness to the spring of all love, to God: man will again be master over nature by abiding in God and lifting her up to God.

  Meister Eckhart

  Spring, Men, Selfishness

  "Meister Eckhart's Sermons". Book by Meister Eckhart, 1909.

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• How you answer the question, whether individuals should be persuaded to live their whole lives in a state of chemical dependency, first upon contraceptive steroids and then on replacement therapy, depends upon your regard for the autonomy of the individual. If men would not live their lives this way, why should women?

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Answers, Way

  "The Whole Woman". Book by Germaine Greer, 1999.

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• You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet.

  Orson Scott Card

  Grieving, Havens, Died

  "Alvin Journeyman". Book by Orson Scott Card, 1995.

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• I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.

  Walt Disney

  Powerful, Stress, Believe

  "How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams and Jim Denney, August 1, 2004.

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• My whole life so far, my whole experience has been that our failure has been not to love enough. This conviction brought me to a rejection of the radical movement after my early membership in the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Communist affiliates I worked with.

  Dorothy Day

  Party, Rejection, Movement

  Dorothy Day, Peter Day (1999). “On Pilgrimage”, p.203, A&C Black

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• It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock.

  Thomas Sowell

  Clever, Mean, Common Sense

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.328, Hoover Press

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• To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son, as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College: they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life.

  Edward Gibbon

  Mother, Son, College

  'Memoirs of My Life' (1796) ch. 2

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• As the mental endowment of a man varies with the organisation of his accumulated experiences, the better endowed he is, the more readily will he be able to remember his whole past, everything that he has ever thought or heard, seen or done, perceived or felt, the more completely in fact will he be able to reproduce his whole life. Universal remembrance of all its experiences, therefore, is the surest, most general, and most easily proved mark of a genius.

  Otto Weininger

  Past, Men, Remembrance

  Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.114, Рипол Классик

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• If ever anybody dedicated his whole life to the "enthusiasm for truth and justice" using this phrase in the good sense it was Diderot.

  Denis Diderot

  Justice, Phrases, Enthusiasm

  Denis Diderot (1963). “Diderot, interpreter of nature: selected writings”

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• The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.

  Tahir Shah

  Waiting, Village, Dangerous

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King Paperback”, p.88, Lulu.com

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• A lost sheep is, for all practical purposes a dead sheep. It is the admission that we are dead in our sins---that we have no power of ourselves either to save ourselves or to convince anyone else that we are worth saving. It is the recognition that our whole life is out of our hands and that if we ever live again, our life will be entirely the gift of some gracious shepherd. God finds us the desert of death (not in the garden of improvement) and in the power of Jesus' resurrection, he puts us on his shoulders rejoicing and brings us home.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Jesus, Home, Garden

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• When you have cancer, it's like you enter a new time zone: the Cancer Zone. Everything in the Tropic of Cancer revolves around your health or your sickness. I didn't want my whole life to revolve around cancer. Life came first; cancer came second.

  Regina Brett

  Cancer, Time Zones, Want

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• Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow, they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Missing, Way, Sake

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