I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.
GEORGE BURNS
GEORGE BURNS
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George Burns38 quotes“I’d rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.”
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At my age flowers scare me.
George BurnsGeorge Burns If you live to be one hundred, you’ve got it made. Very few people die past that age.
George BurnsGeorge Burns First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
George BurnsGeorge Burns I would go out with women my age, but there are no women my age.
George BurnsGeorge Burns You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.
George BurnsGeorge Burns Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George BurnsGeorge Burns Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
George BurnsGeorge Burns How can I die? I’m booked.
George BurnsGeorge Burns Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman – or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.
George BurnsGeorge Burns It’s good to be here. At 98, it’s good to be anywhere.
George BurnsGeorge Burns Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that’s down can come up.
George BurnsGeorge Burns Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
George BurnsGeorge Burns Nice to be here? At my age it’s nice to be anywhere.
George BurnsGeorge Burns I look to the future because that’s where I’m going to spend the rest of my life.
George BurnsGeorge Burns When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
George BurnsGeorge Burns I can’t afford to die; I’d lose too much money.
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Don’t compare her to sunshine and roses when she’s clearly orchids and moonlight.
Melody LeeMelody Lee Oh moonlight, continue to shine on me. As you light up the sky, maybe some peace will come to me.
ShamaShama Stop counting the reasons why they should be loved and start counting the many reasons why you are the one who is worth loving.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Sure, there are oceans and seas and magnificent things – but none of them are you.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix I wish you the wildest of dreams.
Kate WestKate West The way you look at me, The way you make me feel whole, The way you make me feel safe, thats poetry to me.
Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur Live to be happy not to impress.
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Because of social media, we have access to amazing spiritual teachers.
Agapi StassinopoulosAgapi Stassinopoulos In some of the darkest and hardest moments, there is always a part of me that is okay. And I can always access that part of me.
Tracee Ellis RossTracee Ellis Ross I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
Adrian TomineAdrian Tomine I think when you find depression and sadness and hopelessness, Many times it’s connected to certain food and access to quality and nutrition.
Adrian GrenierAdrian Grenier They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow.
Adrian BejanAdrian Bejan Where no girl is denied access to education, for instance.
Adora SvitakAdora Svitak If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.
Dallas WillardDallas Willard And now we have all this access to public transportation, automobiles and jets and the Internet
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