My Life Quotes (page 127)

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• personality
• distance
• personal

Billy wanted me to stay a safe distance from the most important person in my life. It turned out that his concern was, in the end, unnecessary. I was all too safe now. Stephenie Meyer

• evening
• consider
• little

When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, why now rather than then. Who has put me here? By whose order and direction have this place and time been allotted to me? Memoria hospitis... Blaise Pascal

• life
• understanding
• die

Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies John Cleese

• love
• life
• you me

How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life! Oscar Wilde

• equality
• love
• wonder

Then, what's the matter?' I wonder, in fact, how many times I have said that or something equal to it to a woman passing palely through my life. What're you thinking? What's made you so quiet? You seem suddenly different. What's the matter? Love me is what this means, of course. Or at least, second best: surrender. Or at the very least, take some time regaling me with why you won't, and maybe by the end you will. Richard Ford

• life
• writing
• imagination

Nothing can be done but by inches. I write out my life hour by hour, word by word . . . imagining the existence of something uncreated this poem our lives. Adrienne Rich

• justice
• life
• fighting

I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here. Tom Waits

• time
• purpose
• waste

The reason why I consider myself a clever man is simply because I could never in my life finish anything I'd started. All right, I am a talker, a harmless, boring talker as we all are. But what can I do if the direct and sole purpose of every intelligent man is to talk, that is to say, to waste his time deliberately? Fyodor Dostoevsky

• life
• shall
• sorrow

I shall be richer all my life for this sorrow Wallace Stegner

• best
• family
• world

Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are process-oriented, cooperative, and in the best of worlds, nourishing and soulful. A lot of calories get used up before anyone sits down to consume. But more importantly, a lot of talk happens first, news exchanged, secrets revealed across generations, paths cleared with a touch on the arm. I have given and received some of my life's... Barbara Kingsolver

• life
• devil
• path

The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd! Rowan Atkinson

• life
• dropped
• you

If I gave you my life, you would drop it wouldnt you? Michael Ondaatje

• life
• needing
• needs

I felt my life needed a shake-up. Vladimir Nabokov

• life
• little
• which

But to anyone reasonable, my life will seem more or less normal-under-the-microscope, full of contingencies and incongruities none of us escapes and which do little harm in an existence that otherwise goes unnoticed. Richard Ford

• life
• change
• look

I just looked at the pattern of my life, decided I didn't like it, and changed. David Sedaris