The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.
And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system.
When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
I thought to spend my declining years writing poetry and teaching - but that won't pay the Bergdorf's bill. I think I'll move to somewhere life is cheaper.
Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.
I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it.
I haven't got time in my life to do all the things I should be doing, like running and dieting and decorating my house, buying some furniture.
Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.
All rationalism tends to minimalise the value and the importance of life and to decrease the sum total of human happiness.
The reality is that life expectancy has not improved for everyone. In fact, in some cases, life expectancy is actually decreasing.
The aim is to postpone frailty, postpone degenerative disease, debilitation and so on and thereby shorten the period at the end of life, which is passed in a decrepit or disabled state, while extending life as a whole.
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
I'm a woman who has gone through many heartaches, enough to dedicate my whole life to trying to figure them out.
Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.
I don't believe in work-life balance. I think it's more about work-life integration because, increasingly, so much time of ours is spent doing work, so I've always wanted to dedicate my work life to having a social impact.
