Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.


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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a ...
EDMONIA LEWIS
I have a strong sympathy for all women who have struggled and suffered.
EDMONIA LEWIS
Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather y...
EDMONIA LEWIS
My features I take from my father, but my spirit, my industry and perseverance I get from my Indian ...
EDMONIA LEWIS
There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the bough...
EDMONIA LEWIS
Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a wa...
EDMONIA LEWIS
Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come lat...
FLORA LEWIS
I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of exp...
FLORA LEWIS
We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
FLORA LEWIS
I've been through the entire list of Polar problems. I knew it would be hard, but it's harde...
LEWIS CLARKE
Love is blind and marriage is the institution for the blind.
LEWIS GRIZZARD
I don't want a tan, but I do love blushes in colors that give you that whole sun-kissed thing.
JULIETTE LEWIS
Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it'...
LEWIS BLACK
Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, ...
C.S. LEWIS
I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of ho...
ALAN LEWIS
I'm a huge reggae fan. I want to go to Jamaica and make, like, Bob Marley 'One Love' pos...
JENNY LEWIS
Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't mer...
C.S. LEWIS
People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'.
SINCLAIR LEWIS
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is b...
SINCLAIR LEWIS
Watching Bo Jackson, seeing his size, his speed, a lot of his abilities, really drove me.
JAMAL LEWIS
I really liked watching Bo Jackson run just because of his size and his speed.
JAMAL LEWIS
We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.
LEWIS THOMAS
My first boyfriend was a surfer. We bonded over loving the sun, Depeche Mode, and The Cure.
JULIETTE LEWIS
There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C.S. LEWIS
I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was marrie...
LEWIS GRIZZARD
Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
LEWIS GRIZZARD
When I started off with 'Dance India Dance,' even the TV show people thought it won't be...
TERENCE LEWIS
We had high and boisterous winds last night and this morning: the Indians continue to purchase repai...
MERIWETHER LEWIS
I'm a late bloomer. It's taken me a long time to find my voice, and I think all the records ...
JENNY LEWIS
The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, ...
C.S. LEWIS
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are
C.S. LEWIS
Every Friday I used to have about fifty, sixty kids who would wait for me on Sunset Boulevard and I&...
AL LEWIS
Bottom line, your body is a temple, and you have to treat it that way. That's how God designed i...
RAY LEWIS
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with beha...
LEWIS THOMAS