Best Spend Their Lives Quotes
66 Spend Their Lives quotes by 55 unique authors
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A problem with school is that you often become what you study. If you study, let say cooking, you become a chef. If you study…
— Robert Kiyosaki
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Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Most people, of course, spend their lives caring about the wrong things. The worry about South Africa or Nicaragua. They spend so much time finding…
— Kinky Friedman
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Our generation may stand at a crucial breakpoint in history, for we in the presently affluent nations may be the last who can afford to…
— Philip K. Chapman
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Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
— Henry Seidel Canby
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Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. Immature people spend their lives exploring endless possibilities and then doing nothing. Action…
— Ann Landers
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People spend their lives in the service of their passions instead of employing their passions in the service of their lives.
— Richard Steele
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Most persons spend their lives stuck in relatively low states of mind. In these states of mind their views of themselves and the world around…
— Frederick Lenz
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Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.
— Solomon Ortiz
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I think some of our most talented people are not going to pick the arts as a way that they're going to spend their lives.
— Anna Deavere Smith
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Most writers spend their lives standing a little apart from the crowd, watching and listening and hoping to catch that tiny hint of despair, that…
— Ayelet Waldman
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Women spend their lives trying to look good for men. So a woman who feels she's sending the right visual signals is pleased with herself.
— Helen Fisher
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A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the…
— Daniel Handler
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Just because two of the people in this barn have decided to spend their lives together doesn't mean the rest of us are obligated to…
— Sara Ryan
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Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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It's easy to run to others. It's so hard to stand on one's own record. You can fake virtue for an audience. You can't fake…
— Ayn Rand
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In reality the world is made of thousands of groups of about five hundred people, all of whom will spend their lives bumping into each…
— Neil Gaiman
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The price is certainly high for people who don’t know Christ and who live in a world where Christians shrink back from self-denying faith and…
— David Platt
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At that point, Noriko finally breaks down and begins to cry sobbing into her hands as the floodgates open - this young woman who has…
— Paul Auster
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I certainly believe we all suffer damage, one way or another. How could we not,except in a world of perfect parents, siblings, neighbours, companions? And…
— Julian Barnes
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She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.
— David Nicholls
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42. Most people will spend their lives doing jobs that they don't particularly enjoy, and will eventually save up enough money to stop doing those…
— John Connolly
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She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their lives side by…
— Guy de Maupassant
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People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed.
— Lauren Oliver
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