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I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it. — Ernest Hemingway · 1926Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already? — Ernest Hemingway · 1926Human nature2 quotes
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. — Ernest Hemingway · 1952Everyone behaves badly...Give them the proper chance. — Ernest Hemingway · 1926Life2 quotes
I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it. — Ernest Hemingway · 1926Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already? — Ernest Hemingway · 1926Living life to the fullest2 quotes
Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters. — Ernest Hemingway · 1926I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it. — Ernest Hemingway · 1926Luck2 quotes
Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her? — Ernest Hemingway · 1952It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. — Ernest Hemingway · 1952Man as social animal2 quotes
No matter how a man alone ain't got no bloody fucking chance. — Ernest Hemingway · 1937To be like everyone else. Isn't that what we all want in the end? — Carol Shields · 1997Passage of time2 quotes
I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it. — Ernest Hemingway · 1926Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already? — Ernest Hemingway · 1926Alcohol1 quote
A bottle of wine was good company. — Ernest Hemingway · 1926Authenticity1 quote
You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way. — Richard Bach · 1970Business competition1 quote
Business is war. It's dog eat dog, rat eat rat. If my competitor were drowning, I'd walk over and I'd put a hose right in his mouth. — Ray Kroc · 2016Capitalism1 quote
Business is war. It's dog eat dog, rat eat rat. If my competitor were drowning, I'd walk over and I'd put a hose right in his mouth. — Ray Kroc · 2016Conformity1 quote
To be like everyone else. Isn't that what we all want in the end? — Carol Shields · 1997Cowardice1 quote
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. — Ernest Hemingway · 1942Death1 quote
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it. — Ernest Hemingway · 1940Defeat1 quote
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. — Ernest Hemingway · 1952Expatriates1 quote
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. — Ernest Hemingway · 1950Eyes1 quote
Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same colour as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated. — Ernest Hemingway · 1952Facing oneself1 quote
You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. — Ernest Hemingway · 1926Getting drunk1 quote
A bottle of wine was good company. — Ernest Hemingway · 1926Good company1 quote
A bottle of wine was good company. — Ernest Hemingway · 1926Incremental improvement1 quote
The first draft of anything is shit. — Ernest Hemingway · 1935Inner strength1 quote
Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same colour as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated. — Ernest Hemingway · 1952Language1 quote
I've always sensed that language is the great liberator. The fitting phrase, the precise word-these permit us to be more nearly ourselves. — Carol Shields · 1993Making the most1 quote
Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is. — Ernest Hemingway · 1952Meaninglessness1 quote
It was all a nothing and a man was nothing too. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee. — Ernest Hemingway · 1933Memories1 quote
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. — Ernest Hemingway · 1950Missed opportunities1 quote
Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already? — Ernest Hemingway · 1926Moral theory1 quote
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. — Ernest Hemingway · 1932Nothing to lose1 quote
Life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose. — Ernest Hemingway · 1929Paris1 quote
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. — Ernest Hemingway · 1950