Whole Life Quotes - Page 31

• My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland.

  Wilhelm Frick

  People, Fatherland, Whole

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• The media was, 'Oh my God, you're gay,' and I'm like yes -- I've been out my whole life to my family and friends. Everyone in the skating community knew. But just because I won the national title, it's like, 'Oh, my God, you're gay.' The judges would say, 'You have to tone down your costumes, your choreography,' and I'm like, 'No . . .' I wanted to skate for the audiences, not for the judges.

  Rudy Galindo

  Gay, Media, Judging

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• Handicaps are mindsets. Whatever it is that stands in the way of achieving something, that's when it's a handicap. I prefer to see them as obstacles or challenges. This is how I've been my whole life.  I don't know any different. I just live my life through my feet.

  Jessica Cox

  Feet, Challenges, Way

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• Prefer punishment to disgraceful gain; for the one is painful but once, but the other for one's whole life.

  Chilon of Sparta

  Punishment, Gains, Painful

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• Love between strangers takes only a few seconds and can last a whole life.

  Simon Van Booy

  Love Is, Lasts, Stranger

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love”, p.161, Oneworld Publications

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• Even without love, I can live fine alone. It's not like I've always had what I wanted. In my life not even once... I was never selfish nor full of greed. The things I want to do, the things I want, the things I wish for... have I ever even had any of those, for at least once in my whole life? I can live fine without love. I will find a way to survive. Dying is hell. Why is living supposed to be hell?

  Ma-Roo

  Selfish, Innocent Man, Greed

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• We all owe everyone for everything that happens in our lives. But it's not owing like a debt to one person--it's really that we owe everyone for everything. Our whole lives can change in an instant--so each person that keeps that from happening, no matter how small a role they play, is also responsible for all of it. Just by giving friendship and love, you keep the people around you from giving up--and each expression of friendship or love may be the one that makes all the difference.

  Will Schwalbe

  Giving Up, Love You, Expression

  Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.180, Vintage

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• A whole life can be shaped by an old trauma, remembered or not.

  Lenore Terr

  Trauma, Remembered, Whole

  Lenore Terr (2008). “Unchained Memories: True Stories of Traumatic Memories Lost and Found”, p.13, Basic Books

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• My whole world changed when Michael Jackson brought out the Bad album when I was about eight or nine. He took over my whole life and from then on I wanted to be Michael Jackson. I watched his videos for hours and learned how to dance like him. I would push back the chairs in the room and learn his dance moves. I even taught myself to moonwalk.

  Shane Filan

  Moving, Eight, Albums

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• Opportunities present themselves to me. That's how my whole life has been pretty much. I've been lucky.

  Lizz Winstead

  Opportunity, Lucky, Has Beens

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• Our whole life is solving puzzles.

  Erno Rubik

  Gambling, Jigsaw Puzzles, Cubes

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• Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

  Confucius

  Kindness, Should, Maxims

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• If you only had an hour to sum your whole life up, would you spend that hour saying that an hour ain't enough?

  Eyedea

  Hours, Enough, Ifs

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• My whole life has been one of seeking experience.

  Jerry Kramer

  Whole, Has Beens, Seeking

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• I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I realized I was interested in plays. I never imagined myself on television. I was so lucky to be onstage my whole life.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Play, Musical, Lucky

  "Jesse Tyler Ferguson On Shakespeare In The Park: ‘I Love The Challenge Of Starting A Play’". Interview with Matthew Jacobs, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 27, 2013.

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• Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of virtue.

  Washington Irving

  Space, Evil, May

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Complete Works of Washington Irving: Short Stories, Plays, Historical Works, Poetry and Autobiographical Writings (Illustrated): The Entire Opus of the Prolific American Writer, Biographer and Historian, Including The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Bracebridge Hall and many more”, p.1082, e-artnow

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• My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Writing, Touring, Enjoy

  "The grunge girl grows up" by Priya Elan, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2008.

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• Censorship has been my best press agent my whole life.

  John Waters

  Agents, Censorship, Has Beens

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• I have to say, the coolest person I ever met in my whole life is John Mellencamp. I never met a person who was more secure about himself and his person.

  Steven Adler

  Life Is, Mets, Persons

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• Some hours weigh against a whole lifetime.

  Herman Wouk

  Time, Hours, Lifetime

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• You convey too great a compliment when you say that I have earned the right to the presidential nomination. No man can establish such an obligation upon any part of the American people. My country owes me no debt. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope. My whole life has taught me what America means. I am indebted to my country beyond any human power to repay.

  Herbert Hoover

  Girl, Country, Mean

  Herbert Hoover (1929). “The New Day: Campaign Speeches of Herbert Hoover, 1928”, p.3, Stanford University Press

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• If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Lying, Cocky, Squares

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• I take a whole life story and compress it into three minutes.

  Harlan Howard

  Three, Stories, Minutes

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• People ask me often [whether] the Nobel Prize [was] the thing you were aiming for all your life, and I say that would be crazy. Nobody would aim for a Nobel Prize because, if you didn't get it, your whole life would be wasted. What we were aiming at was getting people well, and the satisfaction of that is much greater than any prize you can get.

  Gertrude B. Elion

  Crazy, People, Would Be

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• Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through.

  Patti Smith

  Friendship, Heart, Light

  Song: Dream of Life

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