Life Quotes

It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle. But that does not mean it is right. Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife.
– John Cornyn
We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings.
– Andrea Corr
Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.
– Pierre de Coubertin
Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.
– Pierre de Coubertin
The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.
– Pierre de Coubertin
Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.
– Ann Coulter
I pastor a very large church in western Australia. We have about - over 2,000 people, which we have a Bible school, community services, a lot of things linked with it. So my life's very full today. Not enough days in the week.
– Margaret Smith Court
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
– Norman Cousins
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
– Norman Cousins
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
– Norman Cousins
The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
– Norman Cousins
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
– Norman Cousins
I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking, the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.
– Stephen Covey
Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.
– Stephen Covey
We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.
– Stephen Covey
I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.
– Noel Coward
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
– William Cowper
I do enjoy grinning manically at passing people while waving an axe around attempting to kill off unwanted plant life.
– Alan Cox
Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
– Daniel Craig
I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
– Daniel Craig
The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.
– Alan Cranston
Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.
– Michael Crapo
Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.
– Joan Crawford
If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
– Quentin Crisp
The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
– Quentin Crisp
I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
– Walter Cronkite
The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
– Walter Cronkite
I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it.
– Russell Crowe
I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that.
– Tom Cruise
I've gotten very good at scheduling my life, scheduling the scene and preparing myself for knowing, saving the energy, consuming the energy, knowing when to go for it and having the available reserves to be able to do that. You have to think about that, because it's endurance.
– Tom Cruise
I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I've always given everything to it. That's kind of how I approach life. I can't help it. There's no part-way with me on anything in any area of my life.
– Tom Cruise
It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.
– Tom Cruise
What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.
– Tom Cruise
Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.
– Robert Crumb
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
– Marie Curie
My hero was Tom Merry, and I tried to mould my way of life according to his tenets.
– Peter Cushing
There are all sorts of reasons why I don't do much work in the theatre, the main one being that after two performances I feel I've given all I can. I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint he same picture every day of his life.
– Peter Cushing
The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come to know another human being in some ways better than he knew himself.
– Mary Cable
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
– Herb Caen
In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed.
– Sid Caesar
I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as there are days in the life of those people.
– Mary S. Calderone
I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
– Harry Callahan
This is one of the most competitive businesses there is . . . It's my life. It's my blood. It's how I'm measured.
– Bill Parcells
My audience was my life. What I did and how I did it, was all for my audience.
– Cab Calloway
The clock is ticking and you're hearing the beat. You stop by a museum shop, sign your name on a scuba-diving sheet, and commit yourself to Saturday mornings in the deep end. You're either losing your mind - or gaining your soul. Life is meant to be an artist date. That's why we were created.
– Julia Margaret Cameron
When I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was my belief that everything in life is a learning experience, whether it be positive or negative. If you can see it as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.
– Neve Campbell
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
– Roger Caras
I love cartoons and childlike things, and this was my favorite. You can't escape it. It has always been on television, at least for my life. If someone would have told me when I was a kid I would be playing Velma in a Hollywood movie, I'd have said they were crazy.
– Linda Cardellini
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
– Sandra Carey
Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.
– Belinda Carlisle
All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.
– Curtis Carlson
Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Suess inspired me to try cauliflower.
– Jim Carrey
Drugs are marvelous - it's life that's evil. And sometimes the only way to face it is to get completely twisted.
– E. Jean Carroll
My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.
– Elliot Carter
If we are genuinely committed to promoting a culture of peace, as individuals we must look to our values and ensure that we all exhibit a peace loving life to our nation's children.
– Silvia Cartwright
The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the east and in developing countries.
– Silvia Cartwright
By protracting life, we do not deduct one jot from the duration of death.
– Titus Lucretius Carus
Middle age is Janus-faced. As we look back on our accomplishments and our failures to achieve the things we wanted, we look ahead to the time we have left to us. Our children are gaining life, and our parents are losing it.
– Stanley H. Cath
When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.
– Whittaker Chambers
Seems like I've been here before, can't remember whenI get this funny feeling, we'll be together again;No straight lines make up my life, all my roads have bends;No clearcut beginnings; so far, no dead ends.
– Tom Chapin
If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which is typical of moviemaking. And then you get back to your normal life and you have to have nerves of steel.
– Geraldine Chaplin
At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered.
– Tracy Chapman
I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.
– Tracy Chapman
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.
– Bobby Charlton
Life is all about timing... the unreachable becomes reachable, the unavailable become available, the unattainable... attainable. Have the patience, wait it out It's all about timing.
– Stacey Charter
The greatest and proudest moment moment of my life standing on the podium receiving the silver medal on behalf of myself and Australia.
– Graham Cheney
To be part of that winning team and standing in the ring for the final decision to be announced is something I will live with for the rest of my life.
– Graham Cheney
As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change their natures until they are converted into dust.
– Charles W. Chesnutt
We have entered the era of the imperial former presidency with lavish libraries, special staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges of privilege.
– Lawton Chiles
I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have.
– Alex Chilton
You can't live your life being upset about things, but it's a lot easier to not be upset about it if you've got enough money yourself. If you're walking around broke and working a job from nine to five or seven to five, and you're really struggling to make ends meet, you start thinking about people who have ripped you off and getting pretty angry at them.
– Alex Chilton
In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
– Tao Te Ching
The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but to produce a character adequate to meet it when it comes. It does not make life easy; rather it tries to make us great enough for life.
– James L. Christensen
I can't say enough about how I'm against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help.
– Erika Christensen
A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.
– Chin-Ning Chu
To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job.
– Chin-Ning Chu
Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy.
– Jennie Jerome Churchill
A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.
– Kenneth Clark
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.
– Kenneth Clark
If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and breezes. They shiver you for a split second.
– Eleanor Clark
Whose life is it anyway?
– Brian Clark
There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and I choose not to stop doing those things.
– Laurel Clark
If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.
– Mary Higgins Clark
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
– Karen Kaiser Clark
If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.
– Jimmy Cliff
Peter Utley, the newspaper's obituary editor cheerfully checked with Primrose Palmer, his assistant, on the day's soul traffic. The late archbishop from New Zealand sounded promising, it was agreed, but then again it was lunch time, and who knew what had been happening in some now-ending life.
– Francis X. Clines
The resultant tales from life are stirring reader interest, survivor passions and unease among Britons.
– Francis X. Clines
Comic characters have to have some kind of life breathed into them, and I'm never exactly sure how that's done, but you can tell when it works and when it doesn't. There's nothing worse than looking at a comic when somebody doesn't have that. It's like looking at store windows or something.
– Daniel Clowes
There's a lot of great cartoonists working, but I don't see too many people coming along who are of the 'where have you been all my life?' variety.
– Daniel Clowes
You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
– Daniel Clowes
What a crazy world we live in! Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying to treat criminal misbehaviors using guns as a medical problem! Beam me up, Scotty. Ain't no intelligent life down here.
– Julie Cochrane
It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
– William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
– William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
Big plans, elaborate schemes and grand designs sort of messily bleeding into one another have created Chicago's reputation for rawness. But that rawness is just ambition-sometimes ambition run amuck-that has acquired a life of its own.
– Pat Colander
A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that he is going to be a beginner all his life.
– Robin G. Collingwood
Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.
– Kitty O'Neill Collins
I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.
– Kitty O'Neill Collins
By starving emotions we become humorless, rigid and stereotyped; by repressing them we become literal, reformatory and holier-than-thou; encouraged, they perfume life; discouraged, they poison it.
– Joseph Collins
It's one thing to want a healthy child. But it's another thing to refuse to let an unhealthy child see the light of day. When we manipulate life in this way and diminish the humanity of the unborn, we become less human ourselves because we end up viewing life - all life, ours included - as a commodity that can be rejected by quality control.
– Charles W. Colson
That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of. The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.
– Laurie Colwin