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There is nothing- No life, No joy, No pain- There is nothing save opinion, And opinion be damned.
~ Stephen Crane
The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?
~ Thomas Jefferson
Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story
~ Oliver North
Socialism is... not only a way of life, but a certain scientific approach to social and economic problems.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
In my life I think I made really solid decisions, and I would stand by them all over again.
~ Julia Roberts
You read about me in history books, but now I am dedicated to spreading the truth about preserving the dignity of all human life from natural conception to natural death.
~ Norma McCorvey
Good people drink good beer.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha.
~ Tara Brach
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
~ Manuel Puig
In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.
~ Baruch Spinoza
I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the time.
~ Everett Ruess
The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.
~ Amartya Sen
I'm always interested in the unexpected and know that things, especially in show business, but in life generally, are inevitably fleeting to one extent.
~ Jeff Goldblum
I've never had a message for anyone in my entire life. Except maybe to give out my room number.
~ Bon Scott
In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life.
~ Plato
I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Sometimes things in life happen that allow us to understand our priorities very clearly. Ultimately you can see those as gifts.
~ Mariska Hargitay
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
~ Honore de Balzac
Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.
~ John Calvin
I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?
~ John Steinbeck
Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.
~ Jonathan Franzen
The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.
~ George Bernard Shaw
God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven.
~ Honore de Balzac
For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.
~ Smedley Butler