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Life Quotes by Lionel Shriver
- Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.
- ...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever;…
- You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some attainment. Like most…
- There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian…
- Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life with a successive life is…
- It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of civilization that comes…
- The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport.
- I have never in all my life considered you other people.
- The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.
- Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle