The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
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The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.
WILLIAM R. ALGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER Duty. That which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire.
AMBROSE BIERCE The debris of her married life was enough to sever the tie between reality and dreams, the fine line...
CALLIE HUNTER What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.
CHARLIE CHAPLIN Maturity is the fine line between life and experience.
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C. JOYBELL C. I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM The essential dilemma of my life is between my deep desire to belong and my suspicion of belonging.
JHUMPA LAHIRI The line between life and death is not thicker than an eyelid.
EIJI YOSHIKAWA What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.
PETER HOOK Straight is the line of duty;
Curved is the line of beauty;
Follow the straight line, thou sha...
WILLIAM MACCALL Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; Follow the straight line, thou shalt see...
WILLIAM MCCALL Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.
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MAYA ANGELOU My life is a mosaic, and there's no room in between pieces at all.
MARCIA CLARK Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!
ALEXANDER BLOK Life is a re-discovery.
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GARTH RISK HALLBERG It is the duty of a doctor to prolong life and it is not his duty to prolong the act of dying.
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GENA SHOWALTER They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
WILLIAM GOLDING For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a cowa...
REGINALD W. KAUFMAN Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a cowa...
REGINALD WRIGHT KAUFMAN Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a cowa...
G. K. CHESTERTON Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a cowa...
ELBERT HUBBARD Compromise is never anything but an ignoble truce between the duty of a man and the terror of a cow...
REGINALD W. KAUFMAN Duty over desire - may that inspire.
UNKNOWN A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalt...
NICOLLE WALLACE ...there was a natural comorbidity between sexual appetite and sexual jealousy, between the desire t...
M. THOMAS GAMMARINO If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
BEAR GRYLLS Nagging questions remain: Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching ...
HENRY ANATOLE GRUNWALD I'm a ragged individualist.
JANE SHERWOOD ACE Life is not being good or bad, Its how much we desire to choose between them
NELSON NOAH The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.
WILLIAM GURNALL Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
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ROGER MOORE The life and works of William Owens are worthy of accolades and celebration,
JAMES CONRAD Although my life is far from perfect, the irony is that in a divorced parent's custody schedule ...
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“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
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THE SCHOOL OF LIFE I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
GEORGE CARLIN This garden is your life. Of course, there are the occasional weeds—but more than anything, this g...
SETH ADAM SMITH Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
SALMAN RUSHDIE There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - eve...
EHUD BARAK There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
OSCAR LEVANT There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
OSCAR LEVANT The fundamental desire of life is the desire to exist.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
TERESA COLLINS His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING My desire is to be pure again and not dirtied by the world. But it's my duty to be as ugly and filth...
MARILYN MANSON We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS There is a narrow line between provocation and insult. The editors of the newspapers carrying the of...
IRFAN HUSAIN I'm William, but you can call me Sexy. Everyone does.
GENA SHOWALTER There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.
JULIAN BOND There is a fine line between serendipity and stalking.
DAVID COLEMAN There is a fine line between stubborn and stupid.
FAITH LONDON For the protection of the country, nurses are being asked to risk their health in the line of duty, ...
ANDREW STERN Duty measures the distance between the animal and the divine.
R. SCOTT BAKKER We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of fl...
ALAN WATTS To me, this town is famous for volunteerism. There are people who go above and beyond the line of du...
DAN MODZELEWSKI The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
HENRY KISSINGER Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Everybody in life is a chameleon.
MELANIE CHISHOLM Life is a grand party.
EZRA MILLER Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.
GEORGE ELIOT Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty
GEORGE ELIOT I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I just hope and pray that the person is OK, and I hope that whatever Ivory did was in the line of du...
HAYDEN FRY Whatever you do in your worldly life, is all worldly vision. Until the line of demarcation (between ...
DADA BHAGWAN There's a very fine line between a groove and a rut; a fine line between eccentrics and people who a...
CHRISTINE LAVIN This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE If life is a bowl of cherries, what's inside of it?
JOSH STERN There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
ADAM PEATY There is a fine line between assertiveness and being relaxed.
JUSTIN GUARINI There is a thin line between the impossible and the possible - that is determination.
OGWO DAVID EMENIKE There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight lin...
SUN MYUNG MOON The line between sacred and secular is man-made.
SARAH BESSEY The end is the matter! A step to the end is a factor!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The theatre is the best way of showing the gap between what is said and what is seen to be done, and...
DAVID HARE A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between her...
DEAN KOONTZ The battle between two men over a girl is the same as the fight for two men over a piece of land. It...
BRUNO DUMONT The first duty of a woman in her all life is to obey.
VIKRANT PARSAI My life is a struggle.
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