- Nov 07, 2020
Life Quotes
Quotes on the meaning found in life.
Life quotes on this page range widely - from lifelong searches for spiritual meaning and questions about religious definitions of sin, to the more ordinary scene of people debating life's big problems over drinks. That range mirrors related pages like Life Status.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't know how to weigh ideas about poetry. Nothing in the life I lived as a student - and later as wife and mother at the suburban edge of Dublin - suggested I had the wherewithal to do so. But I did have a unit of measurement. It was the measure of my own life.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, I struggled with authorship: with everything the word meant and failed to mean. Irish poetry was heavy with custom. Sometimes at night, when I tried to write, a ghost hand seemed to hold mine. Where could my life, my language fit in?
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills of the Dublin mountains. Married and with two little daughters, I led a life which would have been recognizable to any woman who had led it and to many others who had not.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.
- Better Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
- Encyclopedia
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- Nov 07, 2020
What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.
- Islam
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
- Dead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Character is supreme in life, hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing - so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code but a character.
- Hand
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- Nov 07, 2020