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Life
«I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.»
Author: Demi Moore
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Life
«I had a dream my life would be So different from this hell I'm livingSo different now from what it seemedNow life has killed the dream I dreamed.»
«I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.»
«I dreamed a thousand new paths. . . I woke and walked my old one.»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
| About:
Dreams,
Inspiration,
Life
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a thousand, dreamed, paths, The Wake, thousand, waked, waking up, walked, woke, woken
«I felt in my life very suffocated and smothered by my circumstance. Your life becomes what you believe. I was living in a house with my mom and my younger brother and we were all sharing rent and wasn't really making rent. Didn't get to eat, I scrape»
Author: Jewel
(Guitarist, Singer, Songwriter)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
circumstance, mom, rent, scrape, scraped, scrapes, scrape by, scraping, sharing, smothered, smothering, smothers, suffocate, suffocated, suffocates, suffocating, younger
«I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility»
Author: Maya Angelou
(Poet)
| About:
God,
Life,
Mankind
| Keywords:
affluent, ascend, ascends, attributed, attributing, beings, descends, existence, existence of God, human beings, interesting, material, meanest, poorest, responsibility, scale, scaled, scaling, standard, style, the existence of God
«I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.»
«I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Life,
Spirit
| Keywords:
Johnson, Taverns, trifling
«I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Discrimination,
Life,
Opinions,
Racism
| Keywords:
African, assurance, at ease, detest, discrimination, entitled, fellow feeling, hold in, inferior, intensely, manifestations, racial, racial discrimination, set up, South, South African, South Africans, surrounds, violently, white man
«I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. . . . The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Journalism,
Life
| Keywords:
Dante, emptiness, jeer, jeered, jeering, jeers, Journalists, refusal, ridge, ridges, shallowest, tittering