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Life is a pilgrimage. The wise man does not rest by the roadside inns. He marches direct to the illimitable domain of eternal bliss, his ultimate destination.
– Oscar Wilde
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
– Oscar Wilde
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Life is too important to be taken seriously.
– Oscar Wilde
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
– Oscar Wilde
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The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
– Oscar Wilde
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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
– Oscar Wilde
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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
– Oscar Wilde
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To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
– Oscar Wilde
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
– Oscar Wilde
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You know grief. You've had it in your own life. But I don't use it directly. It's processed through my acting instincts, the bit of me that knows about those things, so when it comes out it's not my grief that you're seeing, it's the grief of that character. It's active imagination.
– Tom Wilkinson
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You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
– George F. Will
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I'm not an over-dominant person. I don't go around and expect everyone to listen to me the whole time. But I like to be in control of my life because I have so many people around me, I can get pulled in one direction and then the other. If I don't have any say in it, then I end up just losing complete control and I don't like the idea of that. I could actually lose my identity.
– Prince William
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
– Tennessee Williams
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I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.
– Tennessee Williams
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Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.
– Tennessee Williams
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
– Tennessee Williams
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Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.
– Tennessee Williams
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Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
– Tennessee Williams
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The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?
– Tennessee Williams
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To be free is to have achieved your life.
– Tennessee Williams
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We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
– Tennessee Williams
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All my life I've been waiting for this, and now it can happen. A Williams is going to win.
– Richard Williams
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All my life I've kinda dreamed of being the best, and doing the best, and it hasn't always been easy for me. So I've been trying, but it's really special to have come such a long way, it's just really fulfilling. And the fact that I'm just making history right now and the fact that I was able to win four in a row, it doesn't happen every day.
– Serena Williams
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I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling.
– Serena Williams
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The real task was to write songs that were believably bad. It was one of the best jobs I've ever had in my life.
– Paul Williams
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Vote with your life; vote yes!
– Paul Williams
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Ayurveda deals with using your environment to put yourself in balance. I've realized, both on a psychological and physical level, that the things we do in football don't bring more harmony to your life. They just bring more disharmony.
– Ricky Williams
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I can't cook to save my life.
– Robbie Williams
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I have to be careful what I ask for in life, 'cause I always seem to get it! The good thing is, I've got a purpose now, whereas before my purpose was to go out and party.
– Robbie Williams
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I'm a bit hesitant to do anything because I'm actually kind of lazy and I'd like an easier life from now on. The world's a massive place with lots of early mornings and late starts when you're working.
– Robbie Williams
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I'm really, really enjoying myself, I seem to have a lot of purpose in my life. I'm enjoying what I'm doing, you know, and people are liking it. So, it's great, you know.
– Robbie Williams
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I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.
– Robbie Williams
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Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time.
– Robbie Williams
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There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.
– Robbie Williams
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Humanity is part of nature, a species that evolved among other species. The more closely we identify ourselves with the rest of life, the more quickly we will be able to discover the sources of human sensibility and acquire the knowledge on which an enduring ethic, a sense of preferred direction, can be built.
– Edward O. Wilson
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It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
– Edward O. Wilson
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At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
– Woodrow Wilson
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Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
– Woodrow Wilson
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They say I live a fast life. Maybe I just like a fast life. I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world. It won't last forever, either. But the memories will.
– Dennis Wilson
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I always laugh the hardest at the stuff you see in day-to-day life. It's great when somebody can tell a joke that really makes you laugh hard, but to see some kind of personal interaction that no one could write is so good. Those are always the things that make me laugh.
– Luke Wilson
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That just seems like a tough thing to do... just work in the middle of a company for your entire life. You just do the same thing out of college until you're 60, and then you retire.
– Luke Wilson
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I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't be contained by life: Asian life, European life, certainly black life. My plays are about love, honor, duty, betrayal - things humans have written about since the beginning of time.
– August Wilson
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I'm a minor player in my own life story.
– Tony Wilson
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I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
– Oprah Winfrey
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I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.
– Oprah Winfrey
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I don't think you ever stop giving. I really don't. I think it's an on-going process. And it's not just about being able to write a check. It's being able to touch somebody's life.
– Oprah Winfrey
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I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.
– Oprah Winfrey
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It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.
– Oprah Winfrey
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My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.
– Oprah Winfrey
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The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
– Oprah Winfrey
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What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.
– Oprah Winfrey
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Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
– Kate Winslet
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Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up, they just taught me to be me.
– Kate Winslet
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There's more to life than cheek bones.
– Kate Winslet
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I'm definitely happy with the way my career has gone, the success; but I even feel glad that I've experienced some failure in my life. That gives you perspective and humility about this business; it's good to realize that you're always just one movie away from not being in Vogue anymore.
– Reese Witherspoon
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Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out.
– Reese Witherspoon
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A confession has to be part of your new life.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
– Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.
– P. G. Wodehouse
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Psmith is the only thing in my literary career which was handed to me on a plate with watercress round it, thus enabling me to avoid the blood, sweat and tears inseparable from an author's life.
– P. G. Wodehouse
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Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.
– James Wolcott
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Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you?
– Thomas Wolfe
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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
– Thomas Wolfe
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This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
– Thomas Wolfe
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Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!
– Stevie Wonder
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You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
– Stevie Wonder
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College is the best time of your life. When else are your parents going to spend several thousand dollars a year just for you to go to a strange town and get drunk every night?
– David Wood
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I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
– Victoria Wood
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I'm famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the Earth because I figure a) They pay my salary, and b) It's probably like a big moment in your life to meet somebody so I would say, just come on up.
– James Woods
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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
– Virginia Woolf
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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
– Virginia Woolf
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself... And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
– Virginia Woolf
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Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
– Virginia Woolf
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Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was made obvious.
– Virginia Woolf
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Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.
– Virginia Woolf
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Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.
– Virginia Woolf
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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
– Virginia Woolf
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The middlebrow is the man, or woman, of middlebred intelligence who ambles and saunters now on this side of the hedge, now on that, in pursuit of no single object, neither art itself nor life itself, but both mixed indistinguishably, and rather nastily, with money, fame, power, or prestige.
– Virginia Woolf
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This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.
– Virginia Woolf
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Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.
– William Wordsworth
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Neither evil tongues, rash judgements, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall e'er prevail against us.
– William Wordsworth
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With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
– William Wordsworth
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Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
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I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
– Richard Wright
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Babies don't need a vacation but I still see them at the beach. I'll go over to them and say, 'What are you doing here, you've never worked a day in your life!'.
– Steven Wright
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How much of our literature, our political life, our friendships and love affairs, depend on being able to talk peacefully in a bar!
– John Wain
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The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
– Terry Waite
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Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on this planet, can turn what we call ordinary life into a miracle.
– Dan Wakefield
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Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.
– Helmut Walcha
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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.
– Thomas Walker
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Life is never easy for those who dream.
– Robert James Waller
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Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.
– Robert James Waller
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They are babies in waiting, life on ice.
– Claudia Wallis
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Happiness comes from... some curious adjustment to life.
– Hugh Walpole
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During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.
– Mika Waltari
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Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life.
– J. Donald Walters
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