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Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

Quote by Albert Camus about moral, judgment, day

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good...

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about good, good luck, life

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about change, things, nature, nothing

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

Quote by Albert Camus about philosophy, sun, indifference, history

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about events, things, time

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or...

In all my study of history, I have never found a time or place I would rather have lived than now.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion, history, time

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in...

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

Quote by Jane Austen about suffering, nothing, love

As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place.

Quote by Michael Chabon about war, world

I didn't want to go to places that have been written about so many times by people so much more qualified than I, like James Jones and Norman Mailer who lived through it. I was always searching for my own theater of war.

Quote by Michael Chabon about searching, war, people

Old age is no place for sissies.

Old age is no place for sissies.

Quote by Bette Davis about olderness, age, old

What did enrich me were the places I went to make the...

What did enrich me were the places I went to make the films, because I feed off external stimuli.

Quote by Julie Christie

I also hope that I sometimes suggested to the lion the...

I also hope that I sometimes suggested to the lion the right place to use his claws.

Quote by Winston Churchill about hope, use, rightness

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a...

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Quote by Winston Churchill about events

I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

Quote by Princess Diana about peace, mind

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change...

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about change, day

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about eyes, body

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about memory, life

Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding...

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about conscience, opinion, virtue, light, public, being, good, good luck, people

Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million...

Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.

Quote by Joe Cocker about nation, people, contentment

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