Life Is Like Quotes - Page 15

• Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that.

  Alex Flinn

  Girl, Princess, Littles

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• Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Player, Games, Chess Game

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• He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow

  Saadi

  Learning, Men, Fields

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• Life is like a B-picture script.

  Kirk Douglas

  Scripts, Life Is

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

  Dennis Rodman

  Motivational, Basketball, Swimming

  FaceBook post by Dennis Rodman from Jul 19, 2016

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• Our life is like a block of ice which is melting away every moment. Before it spends itself, devote it to the service of others. Education in Human Values is designed to prepare everyone for this life of dedicated service.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Block, Melting Away, Ice

  Sathya Sai Baba (1988). “Education in human values”

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• Life is like a simile.

  Terry Carr

  Life Is, Simile

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• Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.

  Alexis Sanchez

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony.

  Lou Reed

  Funny, Life, Music

  Song: What's Good, Album: Magic and Loss, 1992

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• Life is like a lunchroom at school. In this industry you've got little individual tables of actors, singers, rap stars, this, that, the other. But it's a big industry that also encompasses anyone in the public eye.

  Hayden Panettiere

  Stars, Rap, School

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Night, Thinking

  "The greatest Lemony Snicket quotes ever" by Heather Sandlin, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2015.

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• Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Faith, Lamps, Burning

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• Life is like a motion picture, everything is like a movie. In one of my rhymes I say, "My life is like a movie/Directed by King Louie".

  King Louie

  Kings, Motion Pictures, Rhyme

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• Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Opposites, Matter

  Thomas Henry Huxley, Leonard Huxley (1900). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”

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• You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character then?

  Nick Hornby

  Believe, Character, People

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.85, Penguin

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• Asking, ‘If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?’ is like asking, ‘If there is no master, whose slave will I be?’ If your purpose of life is to submit as a slave, then your meaning comes from flattering the ego of a person whom you should detest.

  Dan Barker

  Ego, Purpose, Asking

  Dan Barker (2011). “The Good Atheist: Living a Purpose-filled Life Without God”, p.29, Ulysses Press

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• Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current will knock you off your feet and carry you away. The way to do it is small steps, you will take hold of life. You will get there in the end.

  Louis Sachar

  Dream, Rivers, Feet

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• Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key.

  Alan Bennett

  Life, Keys, Sardines

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• Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Oct 17, 2012

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• Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

  Andre Malraux

  Life, Business, Men

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• You're right. And so was my snake." Snake?" He pulled my arm out to expose my bracelet. "When I carved this my thoughts were on you, love. Your life is like this snake's coils. No matter how many turns it makes, you'll end up back where you belong. With me.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Snakes, Arms, Matter

  Maria V. Snyder (2008). “Magic Study”, p.439, MIRA

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• Life is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Writing, Errors, Rewriting

  Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “The Rules of Attraction”, p.64, Pan Macmillan

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• There is this sense of David Cameron leading a Government that's badly out of touch with ordinary people's lives. I'd absolutely welcome the opportunity to show all political leaders what life is like for most people.

  Frances O'Grady

  Opportunity, Government, People

  "A single mum and the first female face of trade unionism - meet Frances O'Grady, Queen of the TUC" by Kevin Maguire, www.mirror.co.uk. July 16, 2012.

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• Mortal life is like unto the traveler on a homeward journey.

  Keith B. McMullin

  Life, Journey, Traveler

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• Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.

  Tom Robbins

  Philosophy, Educational, Literature

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.92, Bantam

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