Actual Life Quotes
33 Actual Life quotes by 31 unique authors
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If it be asked, Why does God not bestow the same or equal blessing upon all people? we can only answer, that has not been…
— Loraine Boettner
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I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12-year-old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality.…
— Taylor Swift
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From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious…
— Polybius
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Poetry is my understanding with the world, my intimacy with things, my participation in what is real, my engagement with voices and images. This is…
— Unknown Author
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In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate…
— Epictetus
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I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike…
— Norman McLaren
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And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals, in the journalistic…
— Mark Strand
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Muhammad's is one of those rare lives that is more dramatic in reality than in legend. In fact the less one invokes the miraculous, the…
— Lesley Hazleton
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You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life, or criticize it,…
— Ernest Hemingway
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A good book is the very essence of a good man. His virtues survive in it, while the foibles and faults of his actual life…
— Theodore L. Cuyler
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I've managed to keep my career going in a way that suits me. I'll perform, and then I'll go home to my actual life, and…
— Debbie Gibson
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I've made out more this season on a family-friendly show than ever in my actual life.
— Lauren Graham
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Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.
— Walter Gropius
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We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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In actual life I am a grumpy old bag.
— Dawn French
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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the…
— Samuel Smiles
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Even from the simplest, the most realistic point of view, the countries which we long for occupy, at any given moment, a far larger place…
— Marcel Proust
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Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.
— Aristotle
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The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life.
— Sigmund Freud
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Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true make in anyone's…
— William James
Who Wrote These Actual Life Quotes
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