Life is surreal. When you step back and really take a look at it, the irony is absolute.

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It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look t...
DONNY OSMOND To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN But step back and take a look at the big picture.
GARY MARBUT If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far u...
DONNY OSMOND If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far...
DONNY OSMOND At the moment when you feel like you have reached the point of absolute exhaustion, inspire yoursel...
MASTER JIN KWON

If you step back and take a holistic look, I think any reasonable person would say Android is innova...
SUNDAR PICHAI Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of...
FLOYD SKLOOT

Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.
TERI GARR

Setbacks allow us to take a step back and look at the view from a whole.
BRITTANY BURGUNDER

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.
TOM STOPPARD I remember Des O?Connor when he was white.
BERNARD MANNING I just wish that every responsible and concerned person would step back regardless of race and gende...
LONNIE EARL JOHNSON The Madden Curse has really taken on a life of its own. People just love talking about it, and it is...
DREW BREES This is kind of a weird thing, but maybe that's one of the reasons why we've settled down and played...
STEVE LIDDLE We decided that we would take a step back and look at our different options.
JAMES MACDONALD If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS...

Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER

Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA things get eazyer the older you get sometimes you need to take a step back and look at how much of a...
IJIRASHIIJACK Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY

Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI

If you really want to step up your team's creative thinking, take a hard look at how many people...
PATRICK LENCIONI It's unbelievable. You look at the chart and you have to set it down and step back.
MICHAEL DEAN

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re don...
STEPHEN KING

Roland glares at Connor and Connor glares back. Then he says what he always says at moments like thi...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Be...
BEN MARCUS I always step back and look at - you know, look at my background in playing team sports my whole lif...
JON RUNYAN

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at i...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY

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RUTH BADER GINSBURG I don't see a scientific justification. I think we really need to step back and look at the entire s...
BERRIEN MOORE

I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER

Life is a soccer field, don't you think?
SHAKIRA

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at m...
HALEY REINHART

You learn a lot when you're barefoot. The first thing is every step you take is different.
MICHAEL FRANTI His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING People really have to take a step back and look at what happened in Hong Kong and Japan in December....
ROBERT SASAKI When you're working with people you've seen in hundreds of films... it's a bit crazy to ...
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I had an epiphany later on what the sports highlight is for. The sports highlight is for parents, pe...
CHARLIE SHEEN It's funny: when you make a film, you always look back, and there are always crucial decisions t...
PAUL GREENGRASS

Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT

This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL

Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF

Everybody in life is a chameleon.
MELANIE CHISHOLM

Life is a grand party.
EZRA MILLER To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ...
BRENT M. JONES

Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY

Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you ...
KELLY MCGILLIS

The uncertainties in life are so uncertain for us to determine the kind woe we shall be entangled in...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

The uncertainties in life are so uncertain for us to determine the kind of woe we shall be entangled...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

There are so many things we do in life that define the real meaning of our lives. There are so many ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

When adversity strikes, that's when you have to be the most calm. Take a step back, stay strong,...
LL COOL J I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worr...
RYAN SHECKLER

You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS It has its ups and downs for sure, but when you take a second and look at life, it's beautiful. Cele...
CASSIE LIEGH When I was twelve, I started reading Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, James Agee, ...
FRANCES MAYES It's hard sometimes to take a step back and realize what's happened because you're alway...
ALEXANDER WANG

See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS

I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
KIRAN DESAI

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
NAPOLEON HILL The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the cafe or something doing som...
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