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When you don't have a child to think about, life is a lot easier, but when you do, the thought process is a little different.
– Brandy Norwood
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For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way. I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.
– Kim Novak
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
– Novalis
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Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
– Novalis
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I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.
– Ted Nugent
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Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.
– Ted Nugent
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Political Correctness is about turning a blind eye to painful reality because your comfortable feelings are more important to you than saving lives and providing quality of life to people who work their ass off to be productive and are a benefit to this great American Dream.
– Ted Nugent
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The bigger the real-life problems, the greater the tendency for the discipline to retreat into a reassuring fantasy-land of abstract theory and technical manipulation.
– Tom Naylor
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Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.
– Richard J. Needham
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Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.
– Cornelius Nepos
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So that he seemed to depart not from life, but from one home to another.
– Cornelius Nepos
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The ebb and flow of will is like the movements of the tides... if we cease our vain struggles and lamentations long enough to look away from the personal self...we realize life is going well with us after all.
– Charles B. Newcomb
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We can not tell what may happen to you in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens to us, how we take it, what we do with it, and that is what really counts in the end.
– Joseph Fort Newton
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Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.
– Thandie Newton
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money. When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life. I'd like to thank you for giving me a part of your life tonight.
– Wayne Newton
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Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
– Ben Nicholas
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There are ten or twenty basic truths, and life is the process of discovering them over and over and over.
– David Nichols
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You have gone far and we are proud of you always. I know that you will keep your relationship with your Maker as it should be, for after all, that, as you must know, is the most important thing in this life.
– Hannah Nixon
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Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.
– Alex Noble
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I have not been animated in my life to fight against race and sex discrimination simply because of my own identity. That would mean that one must be South African to fight apartheid, or a poor white in Appalachia to fight poverty, or Jewish to fight anti-Semitism. And I just reject that conception of how struggles should be waged.
– Eleanor Holmes Norton
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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
– Henri Nouwen
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Laughter is wine for the soul-laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness. the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.
– Sean O'Casey
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The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.
– Sean O'Casey
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Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
– Sean O'Casey
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We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not inevitable, lethal result.
– Sandra Day O'Connor
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Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that you have no reason for living.
– Tom O'Connor
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It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
– Georgia O'Keeffe
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Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
– Eugene O'Neill
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I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling lies now.
– Paul O'Neill
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That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.
– Bill O'Reilly
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The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
– Joyce Carol Oates
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When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
– Joyce Carol Oates
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Many are the people, Nigerians and non-Nigerians, dead and alive, that God has used and is still using in the course of my life journey.
– Olusegun Obasanjo
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Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.
– Olusegun Obasanjo
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Suddenly life has new meaning to me,There's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, You wake up suddenly you're in love.
– Billy Ocean
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Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills.
– Clifford Odets
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One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.
– Clifford Odets
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Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.
– Roger von Oech
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I have a theory that the best ads come from personal experience. Some of the good ones I have done have really come out of the real experience of my life, and somehow this has come over as true and valid and persuasive.
– David M. Ogilvy
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The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.
– David M. Ogilvy
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The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
– David M. Ogilvy
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Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination.
– Ben Okri
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Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens' characters are Nigerians.
– Ben Okri
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I'm not that interested in fashion... When someone says that lime-green is the new black for this season, you just want to tell them to get a life.
– Bruce Oldfield
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Ah, dearer than my soul. Dearer than light, or life, or fame.
– John Oldham
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While some no other cause for life can give ,but a dull habitude to live.
– John Oldham
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College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.
– Larisa Oleynik
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I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.
– Larisa Oleynik
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
– Larisa Oleynik
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It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
– Margaret Oliphant
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Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.
– Margaret Oliphant
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Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting, discrediting or ruining their opponents.
– Frederick Scott Oliver
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To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.
– Mary Oliver
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When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
– Mary Oliver
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My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
– Gene Oliver
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I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.
– Sir Laurence Olivier
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I saw, for the first time in my life, two or three young white women smoking tobacco in clay pipes. From their manner it was evidently a well-formed habit, and one which they did not suspect there was occasion for them to practice clandestinely, or be ashamed of.
– Frederick Law Olmsted
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Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
– Robert Orben
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A big part of financial freedom is having your heart and mind free from worry about the what-ifs of life.
– Suze Orman
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In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.
– Suze Orman
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In the next year or so, my signature will appear on $60 billion of United States currency. More important to me, however, is the signature that appears on my life-the strong, proud, assertive handwriting of a loving father and mother.
– Katherine D. Ortega
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I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life - hit.
– David Ortiz
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Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
– George Orwell
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Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
– George Orwell
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Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
– George Orwell
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One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.
– George Orwell
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Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
– Ozzy Osbourne
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Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.
– Sir William Osler
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We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.
– Sir William Osler
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If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.
– Donny Osmond
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This young man-whether he's my son or a stranger-repeatedly declares, I didn't do it, I didn't do it. And he's shot down. That's not the American way of life. A man is innocent until he's proved guilty.
– Marguerite Oswald
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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.
– Herbert Otto
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An evil life is a kind of death.
– Ovid
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The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
– John Owen
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Leadership offers an opportunity to make a difference in someone's life, no matter what the project.
– Bill Owens
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That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life.
– Buck Owens
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The last 16 years of my daddy's life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.
– Buck Owens
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For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death.
– John Oxenham
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
– Al Pacino
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I never got a job in my life that I asked for! But all my life better jobs have been given me than I dared ask for.
– Walter H. Page
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A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
– Camille Paglia
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I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
– Chuck Palahniuk
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You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
– Chuck Palahniuk
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I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own.
– Michael Palin
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Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.
– Michael Palin
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One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.
– Michael Palin
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Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize. People who don't know very much about what matters very much, who view life through literature rather than the other way around.
– Robert Parker
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I don't imagine I would have chosen to spend the last twenty-six years of my life writing about a character whose values and virtues I disdained.
– Robert Parker
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I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up being a writer without a blink.
– Robert Parker
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I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.
– Robert Parker
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It was not just that Ross Macdonald taught us how to write; he did something much more, he taught us how to read, and how to think about life, and maybe, in some small, but mattering way, how to live.
– Robert Parker
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Joan organizes our social life, and on weekends I follow her around.
– Robert Parker
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Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
– Charles Henry Parkhurst
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Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.
– C. Northcote Parkinson
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Each person must live their life as a model for others.
– Rosa Parks
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One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.
– Blaise Pascal
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Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
– Boris Pasternak
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I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
– Boris Pasternak
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Our evenings are farewells. Our parties are testaments. So that the secret stream of suffering. May warm the cold of life.
– Boris Pasternak
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What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
– Boris Pasternak
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