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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. Carlos Castaneda
life years bridges
Burn your bridges every 2 years. Carlos Castaneda
life order dies
One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for Carlos Castaneda
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. Carlos Castaneda
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
conceited men swear-to-god
So I swear to God, I took one year where I just said, This year, I'm just going to cop to it and say to people, 'Okay, where did we meet?' But it just got worse. People were more offended. Every now and then, someone will give me context, and I'll say, 'Thank you for helping me.' But I piss more people off. You get this thing, like, 'You're being egotistical. You're being conceited.' But it's a mystery to me, man. I can't grasp a face and yet I come from such a design/aesthetic point of view. I am going to get it tested. Brad Pitt
conceited men common
These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men. William Shakespeare
conceited substance matter
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, brags of his substance: they are but beggars who can count their worth. William Shakespeare
conceited body strongest
Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest. William Shakespeare
conceited two rome
The world knows only two, that's Rome and I. Ben Jonson
conceited play plain-english
[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English. Ben Jonson
conceited thinking want
Why no. I’m too conceited. If you want to call it that. I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist. Ayn Rand
conceited power pull reveal shots wars
I am the jongleur. I leap and pirouette, and make you laugh. I make fun of those in power, and I show you how puffed up and conceited are the big shots who go around making wars in which we are the ones who get slaughtered. I reveal them for what they are. I pull out the plug, and... pssss... they deflate. Dario Fo
conceited directors films hard huge seem talented
Without sounding conceited about it, it was hard but it did not seem like such a huge leap, because I had done a lot of big films and been around enough talented directors to know what to do if I was in their position. James McTeigue
rivals delight terrible
There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace Bernard Hinault
rivals
He who is in love with himself has no rivals. Benjamin Franklin
rivals incredibles creation
Nothing can rival the incredible rush the act of creation brings. Of crafting something you know is destined to be great for all time. Carl Jung
rivals moments fit
If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals C. S. Lewis
rivals england sophisticated
William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland. Kenneth Tynan
rivals poet
I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival. Muhammad Iqbal
rivals
How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival! Marcus Tullius Cicero
rivals lovers kind
I just like that dynamic in relationships in movies where they're kind of lovers as rivals, you know? Marc Webb
rivals embrace
I embrace my rival, but only to strangle him. Jean Racine