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These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.


James Otis

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RICK RIORDAN No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.
THOMAS E. DEWEY I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.
JONATHAN HARNISCH No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.
THOMAS DEWEY Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, ...
IDA SCOTT TAYLOR MCKINNEY The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment.
LAUREN KATE Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when...
SOLANGE NICOLE She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl...
IN THE MAKING Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON I didn't change, I just found myself.
GOOD LIFE QUOTES Singing in the rain. I'm singing in the rain. And it's such a fucking glorious feeling. An unexpecte...
DAVID LEVITHAN These are the days that must happen to you.
WALT WHITMAN If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, e...
SIMONE ELKELES You can't make footprints in the sands of time by sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttp...
BOB MOAWAD The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes.
KEVIN MCCLOUD Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
RICHARD SCHANBERGER Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that t...
TERRY EAGLETON Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay...
GEORGES ST-PIERRE Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE 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 Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a...
KILROY J. OLDSTER More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power b...
REBECCA SOLNIT To have a public life, you still have the right to a private life.
CATHERINE DENEUVE The privacy of public office, the publicity of private life
LATIN PROVERB Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final
RAINER MARIA RILKE It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo...
J.D. SALINGER She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of ...
ORSON SCOTT CARD We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are...
BILL WATTERSON Your past, is your past, it has come and gone so stop worrying about it
SOTONYE ANGA The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people...
KARON WADDELL In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.
CHELSEA CLINTON Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a newspaperman originally in Colombia. He talked about - and I agree - ho...
PETE HAMILL I did not in late November start the plethora of linking my private life with public events again.
DAVID BLUNKETT Write to Say something,
Say to Make something,
Make to Be something.
SHASHIDHAR SA The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's...
RICHARD RODRíGUEZ It is only fair to expect public employees like me and others in the public sector to pay something ...
SCOTT WALKER The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. I...
CHARLES EAMES We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can.
KAREN TODD SCARPULLA Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live.
STEVE GOODIER In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is...
PETER TOSH We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private l...
PATRICK O'BRIAN Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and the...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Joy always follows on the heels of pain. If a person escapes a mindset that current events represent...
KILROY J. OLDSTER I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. Wh...
TIM BERNERS-LEE The shyness residing in your private life should never make your company media shy.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I have better understanding how difficult and complex life can be, fortunately I know when not to ta...
SHELLIE PALMER Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?
GOLDIE HAWN Beautify your breath – beautify your life.
AMIT RAY Death is more universal than life. Everyone dies, but not everyone lives.
ANDREW SACHS When I was a kid, I thought I had my life figured out. I knew where I was going. I was sure of whom ...
CRISTINA MARRERO There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
GEORGE ELIOT There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
GEORGE ELIOT The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.
TOKUGAWA IEYASU It was frustrating to still be in the dark about something and be given only so little light.
LAUREN LOLA Several things about Reagan are unusual in a public man. He was not a typical politician at all, but...
LYN NOFZIGER I can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one...
ELEANOR CATTON When I started playing, I played in R&B bands. I played James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Otis Reddin...
NEIL PEART It is commonplace for private counsel to retain commercial investigative services to perform legal a...
ROBERT BENNETT I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET Giving someone gifts cannot equate to spending quality time with them. Never replace time with thing...
KEMI SOGUNLE The world is full of monsters with friendly faces.
HEATHER BREWER I know, for example, that Mr. Petersen did not experience the flow of time in the same way that I di...
GAVIN EXTENCE John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of m...
CARTER BURWELL The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projec...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.
SHARON SALZBERG No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'...
W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al...
J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey...
ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft...
ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe...
THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress...
SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous.
G.K. CHESTERTON ‎You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the...
JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
KARINA HALLE I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �...
NEIL GAIMAN An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.
KILROY J. OLDSTER Blood trickled from the corner of her (Annabeth) mouth. She croaked, "Family, Luke. You promised." RICK RIORDAN If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
AMIT RAY Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it.
VICTOR SHAMAS The goal of any spiritual person is to strive towards attaining self-realization by living spontaneo...
KILROY J. OLDSTER People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to ke...
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JAMES THOMSON More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.
JAMES THOMSON But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
JAMES THOMSON Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
JAMES THOMSON When I sing for myself, I probably sing for anyone who has any kind of hurt, any kind of bad feeling...
ETTA JAMES Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a...
JAMES ROUSE Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you...
JAMES GALWAY A lie can be halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
JAMES CALLAGHAN A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
JAMES KELLER I sometimes have an over-confidence that can be viewed as arrogance.
JAMES CORDEN You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: 'Yes, you're doing the right thing,...
LEBRON JAMES In regards to your love life, you're just entering into a whole of pain if you talk about it. If...
LILY JAMES If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or v...
LENNIE JAMES My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
JAMES BROWN The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply ...
JAMES NAISMITH But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.
LEBRON JAMES Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
WILLIAM JAMES See, the thing that bothers me with young actors, young actors of color specifically, is that they s...
JAMES AVERY