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Life Quotes by Sidney Poitier
- Marriage is no way of life for the weak, the selfish, or the insecure.
- I find myself, at this time in my life, no less challenged, no less plagued, no less intrigued by what I still don't know.
- We're all imperfect, and life is simply a perpetual, unending struggle against those imperfections.
- Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.
- I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.
- I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.
- I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.
- So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.
- My autobiography was simply the story of my life.
- I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life.
- But perhaps more important, as someone wishing to make a comment or two about contemporary life and values, I don't have to dig through libraries…
- I am the me I choose to be.
- Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't…
- I am not a hugely religious person, but I believe that there is a oneness with everything. And because there is this oneness, it is…
- I was fortunate enough to have been raised to a certain point before I got into the race thing. I had other views of what…
- I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life.
- I've had it all my life and when it can time for me to start a family, I was quite anxious to do so.
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- 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