Life Quotes

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.
– Annie Dillard
Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.
– Isak Dinesen
I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
– Walt Disney
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life.
– Walt Disney
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Grief is the agony of an instant. The indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.
– Benjamin Disraeli
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.
– Benjamin Disraeli
One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
– Benjamin Disraeli
The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.
– Benjamin Disraeli
You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.
– Benjamin Disraeli
In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
– E. L. Doctorow
We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
– John Donne
There is no social program in this country that is as important as a good job that pays well, that gives someone an opportunity to go to work, have some security, have benefits, and take care of their family and have a good life.
– Byron Dorgan
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
The association promotes a way of life, not causes; a harmony in living, not political faiths; a bilateral loyalty, not commercial or social projects. Yet it is an association for as noble a purpose as any involved in any prior decisions.
– William O. Douglas
Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to film, I'd turn it down.
– Kirk Douglas
There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his life.
– Michael Douglas
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
– Frederick Douglass
Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren.
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short.
– Jerry Doyle
We were talking, we had a table read or something, he said, Jerry, how are you with horses? I said, I grew up with them all my life. He said, Oh, that's great! I said, Yeah, they all had cops on them.
– Jerry Doyle
On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
– Henry Drummond
Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.
– Henry Drummond
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
– Henry Drummond
Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease.
– John Dryden
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
– John Dryden
When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.
– John Dryden
My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus -- there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.
– David Duchovny
My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way.
– Hilary Duff
Absolutely committed to spending the rest of my life as a spokesman for the rights of European Americans.
– David Duke
I did picket one time, wore a swastika once in my life. I picketed William Kunstler at Tulane University and that's the only instance in my life that I ever did that.
– David Duke
A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.
– John Foster Dulles
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
– Alexandre Dumas
People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.
– Isadora Duncan
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
– Finley Peter Dunne
You felt like an idiot sometimes, Dunst laughs. You just have to commit 110% and make it look as real as possible. The hardest job an actor can do is all this pretend, all this screaming and being scared for your life.
– Kirsten Dunst
The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
– Will Durant
It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
– Emile Durkheim
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
– Lawrence Durrell
Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
– Wayne Dyer
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
– Wayne Dyer
It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
– Freeman Dyson
Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
– Freeman Dyson
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.
– Freeman Dyson
You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?
– Freeman Dyson
Can you imagine? Finding out that you're going to be on two series [Baywatch and Baywatch Nights] at one time? I said to myself, my life is never going to be the same again.
– Donna D'Errico
Beauty that dies the soonest has the longest life. Because it cannot keep itself for a day, we keep it forever. Because it can hove existence only in memory, we give it immortality there.
– Bertha Damon
Sinatra was the biggest influence on my life, my singing career. And rightly so. I mean he was the best singer ever.
– James Darren
When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.
– Duffy Daugherty
A really interesting life has embraced everything from the most magnificent exultation to the depths of tragedy. I would say that's tremendous experience. But I wouldn't say enjoyment is an accurate summary of it.
– Marcia Davenport
Physical activity can get you going when you are immobilized. Get action in your life, and don't just talk about it. Get into the arena!
– John Davidson
The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as our own.
– Paul Davies
Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.
– Elmer Davis
This was work (music industry) but it was the awakening to what was to become a life's passion.
– Clive Davis
As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics.
– Artur Davis
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
– Guy Debord
Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm in the life of women.
– Midge Decter
I never let prejudice stop me from what I wanted to do in this life.
– Sarah Louise Delany
Life is short, and it is up to you to make it sweet.
– Sarah Louise Delany
There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
– Don Juan DeMarco
The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!
– Daniel Dennett
The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing something.
– Chauncey Depew
I believe in the Law of everlasting struggle, which is the law of life, and in the duty of the best specimens of our race - the natural 'lite of mankind - to rule the earth, and evolve out of themselves a caste of supermen, a people 'like unto the Gods'.
– Savitri Devi
They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that.
– Gardner Dickinson
It's up to you to decide now, and what you choose to do about it will affect the rest of your life, and theirs. Enjoy your child as he is and make sure that he feels totally comfortable and safe and loved in his own home.
– Rosaleen Dickson
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
– Lillian Dickson
The automobile engine will come, and then I will consider my life's work complete.
– Rudolf Diesel
Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!
– Don A. Dillman
Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.
– Ernest Dimnet
If hooking a car battery up to a monkey's brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody's life, I have two things to say... the red is positive and the black is negative.
– Nick Dipaolo
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incomptetents in asylums, who can't are those in cemeteries.
– Everett McKinley Dirksen
How banal, yet irrefutable, is the assertion that [a person] is a mixture of the 'angelic' and the 'demonic.' ... A true politician... can be neither... 'an angel' nor 'a demon... .' [Politicians] cannot be so if [they are] to... negotiate with courage and skill on the razor's edge between victory and defeat, life and death.
– Milovan Djilas
Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.
– Milovan Djilas
All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.
– Shannen Doherty
Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'
– Shannen Doherty
Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.
– Henry L. Doherty
Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend.
– Tony Dorsett
The garden is a metaphor for life, and gardening is a symbol of the spiritual path.
– Larry Dossey
It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life and then come round.
– Lord Alfred Douglas
The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.
– Norman Douglas
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings - they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong.
– Norman Douglas
Change Management will be essential in all money matters. With profits from sugar continuing to decline and with ecological, aesthetic and employment factors in the industry all very relevant, our management of the change process will be critical to how the ultimate decision we take in relation to sugar impacts upon our economy and our own way of life here in St. Kitts & Nevis.
– Denzil Douglas
In the face of a rapidly changing world, the people of our beloved country have once again demonstrated a commitment to hard work and courage. It is now evident that everything that occurs beyond our borders can have a profound impact upon how we live, the problems with which we have to grapple and the quality of life, which our people will enjoy.
– Denzil Douglas
There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.
– Alec Douglas-Home
Humor is... 'Grease in the friction of life!'
– Susan Clark Dowd
A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.
– Lawrence Downs
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
– Margaret Drabble
And that is life.
– Paul Laurence Dunbar
I am not an animal in my personal life. But in the ring there is an animal inside me. Sometimes it roars when the first bell rings. Sometimes it springs out later in a fight. But I can always feel it there, driving me and pushing me forward. It is what makes me win. It makes me enjoy fighting.
– Roberto Duran
My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.
– Adam Duritz
The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.
– Eleanora Duse
People of Haiti, I am the heir to the political philosophy, the doctrine and the revolution which my late father incarnated as president-for-life and I have decided to continue his work with the same fierce energy and the same intransigence.
– Jean Claude Duvalier
I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about life from Carl Reiner.
– Dick Van Dyke
The details are details. They make the product. The connections, the connections, the connections. It will in the end be these details that give the product its life.
– Charles Eames
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
– Amelia Earhart
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
– Max Eastman
I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others.
– Shirin Ebadi