Whole Life Quotes - Page 24

• A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants to do his whole life.

  Louis Kahn

  Boys, Cities, Availability

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• Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

  Russell Baker

  Happiness, Taken, Goal

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• Egolessness is contentment. Egoless, you don't expect anything, and just a small child smiles at you, but it is so beautiful. What else could you need? Suddenly you see a flower and the flower sends its perfume to you. What else could you need? What more could you want? The whole sky goes on filling with stars, the whole life becomes a celebration because now everything is beautiful. Without expectation everything fulfills - just to breathe is enough, just to breathe is such a bliss.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Stars, Children

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• The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body.

  Carl Jung

  Tragedy, Body, Want

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• The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die... His whole life is absorbed in avoiding death, which is inevitable, and therefore he might be thought to be the most irrational of men, if rationality has anything to do with understanding ends or comprehending the human situation as such.

  Allan Bloom

  Powerful, Passion, Men

  "The Closing of the American Mind: How higher education has failed democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students". Book by Allan Bloom, 1987.

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• We shall remember Gaddafi our whole lives as a great fighter, a revolutionary and a martyr.

  Hugo Chavez

  Gaddafi, Fighter, Remember

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• You spend your whole life trying to get known and then you spend the rest of it hiding in the toilet.

  Bob Fosse

  Trying, Toilets, Hiding

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• As a form of moral insurance, at least, literature is much more dependable than a system of beliefs or a philosophical doctrine. Since there are no laws that can protect us from ourselves, no criminal code is capable of preventing a true crime against literature; though we can condemn the material suppression of literature - the persecution of writers, acts of censorship, the burning of books - we are powerless when it comes to its worst violation: that of not reading the books. For that crime, a person pays with his whole life; if the offender is a nation, it pays with its history.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Philosophical, Reading, Book

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• My whole life has been merely a succession of miserable and unsuccessful denials of feelings or reason.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Feelings, Denial, Miserable

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• I have a congenital desire to contradict; my whole life is merely a chain of sad and unsuccessful contradictions to heart and mind. When faced with enthusiasm, I am seized by a midwinter freeze, and I suppose that frequent dealings with sluggish phlegmatics would have made a passionate dreamer.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Heart, Dreamer, Mind

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• She comes to me when she wants to be fed. And after I feed her -- guess what -- she's off to wherever she wants to be in the house, until the next time she gets hungry. She's smart enough to know she can't feed herself. She's actually a very smart cat. She gets loved. She gets adoration. She gets petted. She gets fed. And she doesn't have to do anything for it, which is why I say this cat's taught me more about women, than anything my whole life.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Smart, Stupid, Cat

  "Rush Limbaugh’s Sexist Beyoncé Rant And Gross History of Women Bashing". www.thedailybeast.com. March 22, 2013.

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• Sonic the hedgehog is a beautiful statement on capitalism. You spend your whole life collecting yellow rings and then hit one spike and lose them all. And there is a fat man who wants to kill you.

  Thom Yorke

  Beautiful, Men, Yellow

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• In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Dream, Might, Waking

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol”, p.262, Vintage

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• Man has no greater enemy than himself. I have acted contrary to my sentiments and inclination; throughout our whole lives we do what we never intended, and what we proposed to do, we leave undone.

  Petrarch

  Men, Enemy, Undone

  "An Examination of the Advantages of Solitude and of Its Operations". Book by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann, 1808.

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• I just don't have the desire no more, I don't have the stomach to do it no more. I don't even kill insects in my house. I just don't kill anything no more. I used to kill pigeons, rip their heads off, 'You dirty rat pigeon!' I don't even have the heart to kill an animal no more. I just changed my whole life in general. That probably could have changed the way I fight.

  Mike Tyson

  Rip, Dirty, Heart

  "Tyson's love for the fight game turns to disgust". Interview with Dan Rafael, www.espn.com. June 11, 2005.

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• So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.

  Kate Upton

  Girl, Acting, Bikinis

  "Kate Upton Is The Woman of Summer 2011". Interview with Matt Sullivan, www.esquire.com. June 17, 2011.

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• I’m freakishly tall, so finding pants that fit is something I’ve struggled with my whole life.

  Karlie Kloss

  Pants, Fit, Findings

  "Hey, Long Legs! Karlie Kloss Is Making Jeans Just for You" by Christina Perez, www.glamour.com. May 13, 2013.

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• I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

  Brooks Robinson

  Baseball, Men, Games

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• I’ve been second my whole life.

  Kevin Durant

  Whole

  "Kevin Durant Is Tired Of Being No. 2 On The New Cover Of Sports Illustrated" by Ashley Burns, uproxx.com. April 23, 2013.

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• I've been a winner my whole life.

  Chris Paul

  Winner, Whole

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• I mean, I do consider that my music is pop because Ive been influenced by pop music my whole life; I grew up in the States and 80s pop music was my biggest influence.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Mean, Influence, Grew Up

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• I think one thing we went through was common to a lot of people: You work your whole life to achieve something, then you achieve it and find out that you still have good days and bad days. So you start thinking, 'Is that all there is?' After a while you calm down and get back to work.

  Elliot Easton

  Life, Good Day, Bad Day

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• I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.

  Will Smith

  Life, Knowing, Perfect

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• I've never really focused on if I had good habits when I sang or if I had bad habits, or if I was breathing correctly. So, I started doing vocal exercises and would stretch out before I sang, stuff to help my breathing. It's funny, you breathe your whole life then you find out you're not doing it correctly.

  Rodney Atkins

  Exercise, Breathing, Stuff

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• If I wasn't even famous or had any success, I would still wake up and put tons of make-up on, and put on a cool outfit. That's always been who I've been my whole life, so that's never gonna change. I love fashion. I love getting dressed up. I love Halloween, too.

  Gwen Stefani

  Fashion, Halloween, Wake Up

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