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life stories life-is
The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted... Carol Shields
life beautiful struggle
Writing is a struggle against silence. Carlos Fuentes
life strong truthful
What is a truthful life? A life lived with deliberateness, a good, strong life. Carlos Castaneda
life people important
I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.
life years bridges
Burn your bridges every 2 years.
life order dies
One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for
life responsibility desert
For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.
life player games
Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world. C. S. Lewis
life faith creativity
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. Agnes de Mille
past people debt
The American people care about the fact that we have $17 trillion in debt and 10 percent of every tax dollar that's coming in is going to pay for past overspending. Carol Roth
past mexican black
[The Mexican revolution] was a break with the past to recover the past. We were trying to deny we had an Indian and a black and a Spanish past. The Mexican Revolution accepted all heritages. It allowed Mexico to be mestizo.
past novelty variation
There is no creation without tradition; the 'new' is an inflection on a preceding form; novelty is always a variation on the past.
past matter happened
Whatever happened in the past doesn't really matter anymore to us right now. Carl Crawford
past years meditation
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years. Carl Friedrich Gauss
past frozen flow
The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays.
past disease littles
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them. Agnes Repplier
past foolish subtle
The delusions of the past seem fond and foolish. The delusions of the present seem subtle and sane.
past racism voter-fraud
Voter fraud does just barely exist, while racism, according to the Supreme Court, is a thing of the past. Aasif Mandvi
greatness
There is greatness in everyone. Charlie Chaplin
greatness quality individual
The true greatness of nations is in those qualities which constitute the greatness of the individual. Charles Sumner
greatness
Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown. Charles de Gaulle
greatness france
France cannot be France without greatness.
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons