Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.
John Banville
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JEAN SASSON Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
W.B. YEATS Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Life is a long preparation for something that never happens
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM What's the meaning of life? Other people.
JOHN GREEN There is a sense of danger in leaving what you know, even if what you know isn’t much. These mill ...
JOHN WILLIAM TUOHY Life, authentic life, is supposed to be all struggle, unflagging action and affirmation, but when I ...
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“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
THE PROPHET OF LIFE If we cannot always be entirely sane in our relationships, the kindest thing we can do for those who...
THE SCHOOL OF LIFE I don't know a better preparation for life than love of poetry and a good digestion
ZONA GALE These are moments of love and ecstasy. Deeply moving moments when we will fly! Fly together in the a...
AVIJEET DAS I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
ZONA GALE We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. So, everyone see the world in different...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Life depends on you and your choices. The real value of your life largely depends on what you do wit...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible...
KINKY FRIEDMAN For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultima...
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C. JOYBELL C. Before I got here, I thought that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it didn't exist, ...
JOHN GREEN You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..
JOHN GREEN More important, it's because God is our only true source of life.
CRAIG GROESCHEL For much of the 20th century people left Wales, but today the old adage 'You have to get out to get ...
ANDREW DAVIES Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
TERESA COLLINS Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER Life is a matter of choosing what is good for you.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE This garden is your life. Of course, there are the occasional weeds—but more than anything, this g...
SETH ADAM SMITH Of course there is no formila for success except perhaps and unconditional acceptance of life and wh...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life and wha...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and w...
ARTHUR RUBINSTEIN Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb
ROBERTSON DAVIES We were all impressed with the quality of their work and, perhaps more importantly, their enthusiasm...
ALAN BAKER One loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life u...
W.B. YEATS Perhaps we should comprehend these things better were it not for the persistence of the superstition...
NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world.
He is the Wise who...
CRISTIANE SERRUYA The sweetest thing that can happen to a debtor is to see his debts fully paid
SOTONYE ANGA Success of a person is largely more envied by his friends than strangers and perhaps always in many ...
ANUJ SOMANY Secret of long life;Never plan to abandon life giving activities while alive.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The secret of long life is by learning the art of meditation,it aids the renewal of the human flesh.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Secret of long life;Desire to compete with tomorrow,by always endeavoring to witness tomorrow.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) There is no more beautiful life than that of a student.
F. ALBRECHT The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the...
VIRGINIA WOOLF The secret of a long life is to never trust a doctor.
LUISE RAINER There is no better story in the Old Testament, or perhaps the whole Bible, for depicting the differe...
TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN If you want to feel the life and the body of great men who are long gone, go to their tombs or monum...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The distinction between sanity and insanity is narrower than a razor’s edge, sharper than a hound�...
PHILIP K. DICK To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: S...
MATTHEW PRIOR To John I owed great obligation:
But John unhandsomely thought fit
To publish it to all the na...
ALEXANDER POPE Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Romanes eunt domus
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RAINER MARIA RILKE Education is not a preparation for life; education is life itself.
JOHN DEWEY Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.
PETER NICOLS Peace is no more than a dream as long as we need the comfort of the clan.
PETER NICOLS Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light.
GINA GREENLEE And her eyes were on the highway, where life whizzed by.
JOHN STEINBECK Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.
CHARLES DICKENS I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation.
JOHNNIE COCHRAN A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
ANONYMOUS A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
PIET HEIN There was something in her eyes! Her eyes were expressive and from the first day that they met, they...
AVIJEET DAS Without knowledge, life is no more than the shadow of death
MOLIERE To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the...
RAINER MARIA RILKE There is perhaps no one who is punished more than a person who is truly good to the people.
ANUJ SOMANY I don't know the meaning of life. I don't know why we are here. I think life is full of anxieties an...
CHARLES M. SCHULZ She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
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C. JOYBELL C. Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.
KINKY FRIEDMAN Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe....
HYEONSEO LEE I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
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JOHN BOLTON Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
JOHN ACTON My best tennis at my peak was when I played a lot of matches.
JOHN MCENROE Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the pre...
JOHN RUSKIN There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.
JOHN ASHCROFT If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just g...
JOHN LYDON It's a challenge to grow professionally and move up the corporate ladder when you're not rec...
JOHN RAMPTON Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you reall...
JOHN WOODEN I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is ra...
JOHN SUNUNU