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Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
~ Arthur Eddington
Through the sequester'd vale of rural life The venerable patriarch guileless held The tenor of his way.
~ Beilby Porteus
The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.
~ C. S. Lewis
Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.
~ Clay Shirky
And if your life is a suitable exchange for my honor, why is my honor not a suitable exchange for your life?
~ Diana Gabaldon
The CIA laid out several scenarios and said life could be lousy, life could be OK, life could be better, and they were just guessing as to what the conditions might be like.
~ George W. Bush
That's sort of like what real life is like in Hollywood. You need stars to gain financing.
~ Harvey Keitel
I told my whole life story in my book.
~ Heather Mills
Essentially, mythologies are enormous poems that are renditions of insights, giving some sense of the marvel, the miracle and wonder of life.
~ Joseph Campbell
Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.
~ Julia Cameron
True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
There are so many dimensions in my music, and I think mostly what people hear is hope - the describing of experiences and the wonders of life
~ Michael Tolcher
There is a choice, and it is a choice on life. I couldn't be more proud to be standing with Donald Trump, who's standing for the right to life. It's a principle that that you embrace.
~ Mike Pence
The Unity Band project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
~ Pat Metheny
I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.
~ Paula Danziger
It is well known that I am pro-life... but I would not seek to impose my views on the Canadian people.
~ Stockwell Day
I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever.
~ Tana French
Although whenever you have intelligent life in the presence of large explosions, a safe bet is that the intelligent life is responsible for the large explosion.
~ Terence McKenna
The only proper suit-and-tie job I've had in my life was the two years in the late 1980s when I ran a small corporate publishing company. I even had a Ford Sierra!
~ Will Self
Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.
~ William Godwin
Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good.
~ William Hurlbut
One of finest evocations of life in Western America in recent memory... Powerful and profoundly moving.
~ William Kittredge
Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.
~ William Law
When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.
~ William Sanderson