Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?
Ernest Hemingway
Related Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If ... SAM RAYBURN If you do not live in active in active consciousness, you will lose time and fail to realize that yo... SUNDAY ADELAJA Do not wait until the near end of your life to realize that you have not fully lived to love. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Y ou already have the abundance of life in you, and each day you must decide to live abundantly... MENSAH OTEH 'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it. ELIZABETH OLSEN Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron... YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe... YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More... HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes... HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU He remembered the time he had hooked one of a pair of marlin. The male fish always let the female fi... ERNEST HEMINGWAY The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived l... MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE The dream is to have it all. Who says you can't have your cake and eat it too? Live this life, t... PAUL WALKER As an author, you spend a lot of time by yourself in a room making clicky noises. It gets pretty ins... CHRISTOPHER MOORE You want to be a poet and you’re not. By the time you realize you’re not doomed, your life is go... TARRYN FISHER We have to keep a good frame of mind and not overlook La Villa. Anytime you do that, youre going to ... HECTOR GARCIA You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, ... SENECA You’re all so glued to your phones, tablets, and computers that life isn’t even running away fro... COREY TAYLOR You cannot live your life in the elitist world of fashion and not step out or you're disconnecte... ANDRE LEON TALLEY Turn your life into the life you want by discovering the purpose you were born to live and then chan... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It's funny, but you get to a time in your life when you think you have all the friends you will ... LIAM NEESON Time will make it worse! You're...the other half of his soul. He's never going to get over you. And ... JAMIE MCGUIRE Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your ... ECKHART TOLLE Keep a copy of 'Islands in the Stream' by Ernest Hemingway on the left hand side of your des... LYNN COADY Don’t live your life not to know what to do with your time. If you don’t have any results to sho... SUNDAY ADELAJA You have to be there all the time and see that they do not snow you under, if you are really going t... EMMELINE PANKHURST A feeling should not be just a feeling. Put your feelings into words, and say them, share them, writ... ROSA M. BETANCES You live your life day by day and find ways to get through it. You grow up through things that are c... KELLY RUTHERFORD Never wait until the end of your life to realize you have not live to fully love. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Live like you're already dead, man. Have a good time. Do your best. Let it all come ripping righ... JEFF BRIDGES I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you... JOE NAMATH It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might ... J. K. ROWLING Let go of all the drama, all that is superficial, all the worry over things you have no control over... AKIROQ BROST Do you know that feeling? When everything you do seems like a struggle. Where you dont wanna leave t... ANONYMOUS. Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and gettin... ZACHARY TY BRYAN You control your own destiny. Never let anyone put you in a box and say 'This is your space'; You ha... MICHELLE GEANEY Make time for yourself. How are you spending your time? Are you doing the things you love?Are you ma... AKIROQ BROST It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might ... J.K. ROWLING It’s not about being ready or feeling prepared all the time; sometimes you just have to do what yo... A.J. DARKHOLME Do you ever get that feeling where you don't want to talk to anyone anymore? You just want to be lef... MAHMOUD EL HALLAB First, come to the point where you realize you are alone, completely and utterly alone in the vastne... CHRISTOPHER HAWKE You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to... J.K. ROWLING Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you ma... MICHEL FOUCAULT There comes a time in each persons life when we all flip a switch and realize what is truely importa... JESSICA FAYE HAMMER I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything... JOE NAMATH Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so... GARY F EVANS... You ever get the feeling all hell’s about to break loose and there’s nothing you can do about it... ALI VALI The thing is, that when you're young, you always think you'll meet all sorts of wonderful people, th... KATE JACOBS You know, some people say life is short and that you could get hit by a bus at any moment and that y... CHRIS ROCK Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do. ELIZABETH BOWEN There's a peculiar thing that happens every time you get clean. You go through this sensation of reb... ANTHONY KIEDIS Figure out your passion. What floats your boat, rings your bell, lights your tree? A life without pa... TONI SORENSON Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in diffic... MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI Life itself will protect you. You will graduate to living a better life than you have ever lived til... SANCHITA PANDEY You can create the best out of your life by understanding the wealth of time and converting that tim... SUNDAY ADELAJA In the field of business, you are a hunter. For sure you will not be successful all the time when yo... OSCAR BIMPONG "IN LIFE, YOU MAY SOMETIMES THINK SOMETHING IS YOUR ALL UNTIL YOU LOSE IT; ONLY THEN DO YOU REALIZE ... JOB LAZARUS OKELLO. The feeling that you have a lot of time to live but you don't know how to live with it. BENJAMIN II CARVAJAL Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and gettin... ZACHERY TY BRYAN We all have one life and we can choose how we want to live it. It's important you realize that, no m... ZOE SUGG However you will live your life you will realize that life is a great regret of our Self. SORIN CERIN The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK A Plan B life can be just as good or better than a Plan A life. You just have to let go of that firs... SHANNON L. ALDER Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven’t go... ANTHONY KIEDIS Mind your mind! Check your heart! In the end, you shall realize that it was not just your heart and ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Live your life do what you want to do. If no one understands it , know you do and that is all that m... KAT MORGAN This is your life, not someone else's. It is your own feeling of what is important, not what people ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT There are so many emotions that you're feeling, you can get stifled by them if you're feelin... TAYLOR SWIFT I think my mother... made it clear that you have to live life by your own terms and you have to not ... CAROLINE KENNEDY So do all who lived to see such times, but that is not for you who decide. All you have to decide is... GANDALF maybe memories are like karaoke-where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling a... DOUGLAS COUPLAND Maybe memories are like karaoke - where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling... DOUGLAS COUPLAND Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI You have to train your body to take a beating. You have to have the heart and the patience to realiz... JAMES WILSON ...if you live feeling like Your glass is half empty, well, It may as well be empty all th... MATTIE J.T. STEPANEK Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out ... SARAH DESSEN Have you ever felt your destiny unfolding, beloved? Have you experienced the intensity of the hunt, ... MARTHA N. BECK Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, on... DAN SAVAGE They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived t... KHALED HOSSEINI What I point out to people is that it's silly to be afraid that you're not going to get what you wan... MARCIA MARTIN It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project. NAPOLEON HILL Please, it is meaningless for you [reporters] to continue your wild guesses, ... As time goes by, yo... FRANK HSIEH You live half your age. Half of it is filled with memories. The remaining half, you live for the mem... EPHDAN There is a point where you have to stop the motion in your life, stop and look at where you're going... DAMION JAMES LINDER Dont EVER EVER EVER let ANYONE tell you to delete pictures you've taken with your camera. Profession... RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO Do you have any idea what it feels like to suddenly realize that the reason you’ve have been so lo... OLIVIA FULLER I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ev... COLONEL SANDERS Do you not realize that your kids are going to make mistakes, and a lot of them? Do you not realize ... DAN PEARCE The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means w... EDWARD CLARKE No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed fee... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that ... KATHARINE HEPBURN You are alone because you were born alone. And though you were born alone, you found a reason and th... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You are alone because you were born alone. And though you were born alone, you found a reason and th... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your mus... GLORIA ESTEFAN You've got to learn something each day of your life, life is not easy but taking the easy way out do... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Inorder to accept any sort of change, you must realize that you do not have control over everything ... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it i... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I was probably 21 or 22 years old when I realized the prose that I live by, which is, 'You get w... ZAC BROWN What you don't necessarily realize when you start selling your time by the hour is that what you're ... BARBARA EHRENREICH
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over ERNEST HEMINGWAY By "guts" I mean, grace under pressure ERNEST HEMINGWAY Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency. The second is war. Both brin... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imaginatio... ERNEST HEMINGWAY It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. ERNEST HEMINGWAY All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.Not my fault. ERNEST HEMINGWAY Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that dist... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. ERNEST HEMINGWAY A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a b... ERNEST HEMINGWAY In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason. ERNEST HEMINGWAY Develop a built-in bullshit detector. ERNEST HEMINGWAY I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY As you get older, it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt l... ERNEST HEMINGWAY you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. ERNEST HEMINGWAY You never kill anyone you want to kill in a war, he said to himself. ERNEST HEMINGWAY If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight. ERNEST HEMINGWAY I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first t... ERNEST HEMINGWAY We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are f... ERNEST HEMINGWAY That is the greatest fallacy, the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. ERNEST HEMINGWAY Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enoug... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunat... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Certainly it is valuable to a trained writer to crash in an aircraft which burns. He learns several ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both brin... ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and lik... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. ERNEST HEMINGWAY There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to w... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. ERNEST HEMINGWAY An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never mistake motion for action. ERNEST HEMINGWAY If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The digni... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go... ERNEST HEMINGWAY But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. ERNEST HEMINGWAY From things that have happened and from things as they exist and from all things that you know and a... ERNEST HEMINGWAY All things truly wicked start from innocence. ERNEST HEMINGWAY There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I don't know who made the laws; But I know there ain't no law that you got to go hungry. ERNEST HEMINGWAY The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it. ERNEST HEMINGWAY I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? ERNEST HEMINGWAY For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is be... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Pound's crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. ERNEST HEMINGWAY