In life, there is no pause button, no rewind, and definitely no replay


Marcel Pagnol

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LIFE IS SHORT TIME IS FAST NO REPLAY,NO REWIND SO ENJOY EVERY MOMENT AS IT COMES
HAGAR IBRAHIM
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NO DOUBT
It must be an odd person indeed that can say for certain they are normal.
INITIALLY NO
Take this drink as a token of
my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be sh...
INITIALLY NO
Take this drink as a token of my disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be shining...
INITIALLY NO
It's nice to finish with a great shot like that. It was a nice way to finish up. It looked pretty go...
DONALD NO
I was struggling on the greens (early on the back nine) and had lost a little bit of confidence and ...
DONALD NO
They tell me to be quiet
When I’d rather cause a riot
And have everyone screaming
O...
INITIALLY NO
We had no doubt that they were guilty.
JUROR NO
We did the right thing for Mary. It was not an easy decision, and it was not unanimous at first.
JUROR NO
Before, I said I could be fair, but I don't think I can.
JUROR NO
We actually challenged one another in the deliberation room. We challenged the issues, and we came t...
JUROR NO
I saw two birds having dangerously kinky sex on the main road, while several cars ran above them jus...
INITIALLY NO
My life needs a rewind/erase button.
BILL WATTERSON
No, I'm not in favor of replay at all.
MIKE SCIOSCIA
Is there a panic button I can hit? Or better yet, a button that will pause this whole scene while I ...
CATHERINE MCKENZIE
If Life had a rewind button , we would never move forward
MATTHEW BUCHANAN
There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.
JEFFREY FRY
If you need something inspirational, just point up to the top of your vision.
MAZ NO PARADISE
Sad but inspirational
MAZ NO PARADISE
We face a new world everyday, try to understand them and love them more than our yesterday.
MAZ NO PARADISE
Believe me, Dream is better than Hope but both Combined is the best.
MAZ NO PARADISE
Miracle is not so far away but easy to fade away.
MAZ NO PARADISE
Recognize every time before doing anything that you always do a miracle.
MAZ NO PARADISE
Sometime if you look up in the sky. There is a path of your destiny.
MAZ NO PARADISE
There is no paradise for you or me.
MAZ NO PARADISE
How much does he lack himself, he who must have many things?
SEN NO RIKYū
How much does he lack himself who must have many things?
SEN NO RIKYū
Prices are rising, but not fast enough to prompt the central bank to raise interest rates. Inflation...
IM NO JUNG
I expect consumer spending to continue to improve. The central bank is likely to raise interest rate...
IM NO JUNG
The negative impact of high international oil prices was big in August. We can still expect a recove...
IM NO JUNG
Pretty hard to see when you refuse to look. Pretty hard to hear when you refuse to listen.
JEFF BELL
Marcel, no more painting; go get a job.
MARCEL DUCHAMP
There is, as yet, no Beast and definitely no Bitch.
ALAN HAMILTON
There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast
SIGMUND FREUD
If there is no love, how can there be passion or reason?
DEBASISH MRIDHA
There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
CARLES PUIGDEMONT
There was a red button on the wall labeled EMERGENCY, but no button labeled BEWILDERMENT.
MICHEL FABER
There was a red button on the wall labelled EMERGENCY, but no button labelled BEWILDERMENT.
MICHEL FABER
No change, no pause, no hope! Yet I endure.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance.
DAPHNE DU MAURIER
There were times where all we want is to Play the laughter, Pause the memories, Stop the pain and Re...
SLIM_SHADY
Actually, our goal is to have no plays overturned by instant replay.
BOBBY GASTON
You have to take positions on bills. There is no button for maybe or possibly.
CHARLIE DENT
Just a moment ago, I was thinking of postponing my dream for tomorrow, but I decided to take a look ...
PHILIP T. M.
Hakuna mimi katika umoja. Kuna sisi.
ENOCK MAREGESI
I definitely think cheerleaders have no fear.
ASHLEY TISDALE
It would be hard to say no, ... But it's definitely not what I prefer.
BRADEN LOOPER
She made many great sacrifices. To be in her presence once more is something that I would definitely...
SEAN WASHINGTON
Part of the process of reading is constantly hitting the pause button, and now and then the rewind b...
STEVE ERICKSON
I think we need to pause maybe and say thank you to the voters of Eureka who said no to Wal-Mart bec...
BONNIE NEELY
A reputation is what you hear when no one is there to speak for it.
JEFFREY FRY
Buy yourself some time. Interrupt the ‘yes’ cycle, using phrases like “I’ll get back to you,...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE
There will be no increase in production, definitely not. There is a consensus on that.
CHAKIB KHELIL
There is no normality in life.
HELENA BONHAM CARTER
For every ACTION in life there is a RE Action and for every NO ACTION there is NO ATTRACTION to LOVE...
MINA TADROS
How could they find no wrongdoing?
KEVIN MARTINGAYLE
‎... nothing can be perfectly granted to be the best!no perfect, no best! you know why?...we are j...
APPLES ROMANO
Do nothing which is of no use.
MIYAMOTO MUSASHI
Getting bogged down in old stories stops the flow of learning by censoring our perceptions, making u...
MARTHA BECK
Without the way , there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there...
THOMAS KEMPIS
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.
FEDERICO FELLINI
There is no UnDo in real-life.
MARCOS FIGUEIRA
There is no guy in my life,
TERI HATCHER
There is no joy in a life that is all information. There is no 'juice' to that kind of life. No swee...
TISH GRIER
Hiring a Fed chairman is like firing a missile. There's no recall button.
DREW MATUS
No,
ROSA PARKS
Say No To Cecil.
DANIEL DAVIS
No, I don't.
SAMMY SOSA
There were no brawls,
RICHARD SHELBY
No. He didn't get in.
RICHARD SEYMOUR
I said, 'No, I didn't say anything.
CHAI VANG
The op went well and there have been no complications,
JOSH LEWSEY
There's no other place but up.
TRENT MILLER
No, no,
ROBERT FISK
Niemożność dostrzeżenia szerszego kontekstu to zwykły skutek uszkodzenia okolic kory przedczoł...
SAM KEAN
If only we could do like the old video tapes; able to rewind and fast forward life. I wish we could ...
GORMAN PARRISH
There is no smarter professor than life, and no wiser sage than experience.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
We definitely benefited from payola. There is no doubt about it.
JAKE SLICHTER
Many times I feel Childhood is the best part of my life,No enemies,No anger,No worries,No jealous,No...
JOSEPH BOAZ
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
FEDERICO FELLINI
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
FREDERICO FELLINI
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
FEDERICO FELLINI
He was most definitely one of the guys who got the wheels going. The advantage he had was that no on...
ALLEN WALLACE
We would definitely take care of this claimant, but no claim has been filed.
MICHAEL CLEARY
It definitely had that playoff atmosphere. It was two guys, going head-to-head, that are arguably ou...
DOUG MIRABELLI
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
There is no casting director; there is no producer monitoring your upload button. Anyone that looks ...
LILLY SINGH
There is no shortcut to success in life.
USAMA BASHIR
No agreement is visible. No agreement is possible. No future is there in the life of the two peoples...
MAHDI ABDEL HADI
I'm delighted that there was no violence, and there was no loss of life in their rescue.
ANNE BACON
In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency.
MARK SPITZ
Life certainly have no guarantees just a whole lotta processed excrement that come and go, and in so...
FRANCESCO NICHOLAS CECE
Without faith, hope and trust, there is no promise for the future, and without a promising future, l...
ADLIN SINCLAIR
War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK
sort of hit the pause button on that.
RICHARD PARSONS
Without sound,
There would be no music.
And without music,
There would be no life. SUZY KASSEM
There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there c...
M. SCOTT PECK
The life of the Addict is always the same. There is no excitement, no glamour, no fun. There are no ...
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No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others ...
MARCEL PROUST
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
MARCEL PROUST
We feel in one world, we think and name in another. Between the two we can set up a system of refere...
MARCEL PROUST
The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.
MARCEL PROUST
Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe.
MARCEL PROUST
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: They are the charming gardeners who make our souls b...
MARCEL PROUST
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
MARCEL MARCEAU
His hatred of snobs was a derivative of his snobbishness, but made the simpletons (in other words, e...
MARCEL PROUST
Bird flu isn't over in Switzerland. We are not finding cases any more but on the other hand we can b...
MARCEL FALK
There is something like an explosion in the meaning of certain words: they have a greater value than...
MARCEL DUCHAMP
It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ou...
MARCEL PROUST
In the midst of each epoch, I fully realize that a new epoch will dawn.
MARCEL DUCHAMP
The entire world of art has reached such a low level, it has been commercialized to such a degree th...
MARCEL DUCHAMP
What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see ...
MARCEL DUCHAMP
People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura of life which bears no rel...
MARCEL PROUST
A game of chess is a visual and plastic thing, and if it isn't geometric in the static sense of ...
MARCEL DUCHAMP
I was highly attracted to chess for forty or forty-five years; then, little by little, my enthusiasm...
MARCEL DUCHAMP
People can have many different kinds of pleasure. The real one is that for which they will forsake t...
MARCEL PROUST
The problem is that to be a producer, one must be a gambler, and the greatest French producers were ...
MARCEL CARNE
Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to suc...
MARCEL DUCHAMP