Life Quotes

Life in part is what you make of it... in parting it is what it makes out of you.
– Janice Markowitz
I think that the biggest misconception I have run across is people assuming that this is my final destination - that being a model is the pinnacle of my life - how wrong they are!
– Shae Marks
Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the movie, so I spend all my life in editing.
– Garry Marshall
Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains its supreme value when one knows how to forfeit it with grace when the time comes.
– Felix Marti-Ibanez
Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
– Agnes Martin
Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.
– Agnes Martin
To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.
– Agnes Martin
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
– Agnes Martin
I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to appreciate this life more.
– Harvey Martin
Life is what happens while you are trying to get well.
– Patrick Mason
Accept, accept that I have won, whispers the Devil. You can see for yourself that life is unjust, unfair, that suffering is ordinary. Who is stronger? I am, of course. Just despair, my dear, despair. Only tell me that I am strong, that Evil rules.
– Suzanne Massie
I had a very special family life. My mother and father made sure when we were home, we were part of the family, not a TV star. And the other thing: my father was fully employed while I was doing the series.
– Jerry Mathers
There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.
– Reginald Maudling
The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.
– Guy de Maupassant
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.
– Samurai Maxim
The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.
– Samurai Maxim
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
– John C. Maxwell
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.
– Benjamin E. Mays
What is important is to have values in life. What's important is how you are, not how you look.
– Valeria Mazza
I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.
– Rachel McAdams
I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
– Rachel McAdams
I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.
– Christa McAuliffe
If a single one of these gentlemen is correct, if a believer of any type is right, the essential truth for man, the real drama of life, in comparison with which the secular story of the race, is a puppet-show and the unfolding of the universe is a triviality, is the dialogue of the immortal soul and the eternal God. Yet it seems that there is nothing in the world so hard to discover as this. The theory refutes itself.
– Joseph McCabe
Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.
– Eugene J. McCarthy
It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don't want to spend my life being angry.
– Stella McCartney
I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
– Barbara McClintock
Metaphorically these essays move as a quiet but observant coast-guard cutter among the rocks and islands up and down the littoral of our life.
– David McCord
Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
– Gates McFadden
When you do a lot of acting your entire life, you see the entire set from one point of view. To have a chance to step back and pull it all together is really exciting. You want to do it all; you want to have a hand in everything.
– Danica McKellar
It's a Fox thing, the bad-boy image. They're trying to type me out. There are worse things in life, you know. I'm just really excited about the opportunity.
– Ben McKenzie
Socialites kid each other, their way of life, their friends; and I kid the whole setup.
– Aileen Mehle
I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.
– Rita Mero
I would never discourage anyone from doing what it is in life that they want to do. But I would encourage them to find out the pros and cons of anything they become involved in.
– Rita Mero
There was absolutely no strain in marriage. Marc and I understand that this is a business. We have no problem separating our personal life with our personal life. And we have a very strong relationship.
– Rita Mero
Respectable men and women content with good and easy living are missing some of the most important things in life. Unless you give yourself to some great cause you haven't even begun to live.
– William P. Merrill
My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.
– Paul Merton
Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself. You always have to have fun. You have to have an open mind. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. Life's too short.
– Debbie Meyer
It was a real experience, not just, 'I'm going to the Olympics,' but it was a life skill, an eye-opener to the real world situation. I was 16, gone from my parents for two months, living by myself in a hotel. I was in charge of how much I ate, how much sleep I got. You grow up extremely fast. You know how to set goals for yourself, and how to work toward those goals. You know time management and how to work through adversity.
– Debbie Meyer
No pomade or bear grease, not even baptism, can grow back the foreskin of which we were robbed on the eighth day of life; those who, on the ninth day, do not bleed to death from this operation shall continue to bleed an entire lifetime, even after death.
– Giacomo Meyerbeer
Life has taught me that if someone is being whipped and someone is whipping this person, I am always on the side of those who are being whipped. I've always criticized U.S. foreign policy for forgetting that the United States should defend those who need to be defended. I would object to U.S. policy if it supported Saddam Hussein, and I have always criticized the United States for supporting military regimes in Latin America.
– Adam Michnik
Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to get the job to begin with.
– Myriam Miedzian
I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.
– Christina Milian
Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.
– Margaret Millar
The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.
– Henry Mille
There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.
– James Nathan Miller
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by what you bring to life.
– John Homer Miller
The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
– Kate Millet
Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
– Kate Millett
The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
– Kate Millett
There have been loads of times I have regretted meeting Paul because I was so happy in my old life.
– Heather Mills
The masses in highly industrialized countries like England, the United States, or France are largely de-Christianized. Technology, and the way of life it produces, undermines Christianity far more effectively than do violent measures.
– Czeslaw Milosz
The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.
– Helen Mirren
There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.
– Donald Grant Mitchell
I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.
– Tina Modotti
As an American I wish my Dad had been elected. Personally I think my life is easier than it would have been in terms of having a career.
– Eleanor Mondale
Some of the most important people in my life would be shocked to learn that they were role models. They weren't celebrities, or even particularly accomplished. But they had some quality that I admired, that made me want to be like them.
– Donn Moomaw
I can't imagine not having music in my life, playing for myself or for other people.
– Dudley Moore
In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be.
– Alberto Moravia
There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent to one's feelings, to make confessions; from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish; or again from vanity and self-satisfaction.
– Alberto Moravia
As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country should be invaded and I lived.
– Daniel Morgan
I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.
– Alanis Morissette
When you lay your life out there, you want it to be as true as possible.
– Jim Morris
Life is act, and not to do is death.
– Lewis Morris
The Bible is unique also in terms of its effect on individual men and on the history of nations. It is the all-time best seller, appealing both to hearts and minds, beloved by at least some in every race or nation or tribe to which it has gone, rich or poor, scholar or simple, king or commoner, men of literally every background and walk of life.
– Henry Morris
This was a splendid life. Splendid in its obscurity and humility, splendid in its strength and charity, splendid in its achievements.
– Robert C. Mortimer
I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
– Anna Mary Robertson Moses
One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness: for the crops carried in from the fields and the grapes from the vineyard.
– J. Robert Moskin
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
– Robert Motherwell
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
– Robert Motherwell
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.
– Lucretia Mott
Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.
– Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Undoubtedly, to protest secured people against terrorism is to protect the right to life in a society of believers that glorifies life and freedom.
– Hosni Mubarak
Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude.
– Walter A. Mueller
If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.
– Max Mueller
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
– Mike Murdock
Playing baseball is not real life. It's a fantasy world... It's a dream come true.
– Dale Murphy
The first time I heard Dusty Springfield sing, I became smitten with her voice. The times we have worked together over the years have been some of the most memorable of my life. She is a very special lady and my favourite singer of all time.
– Anne Murray
When you realize you're alive, you can live life!
– Chad Michael Murray
I didn't care if the flippin Capital tower fell on its side and rolled into the ocean with everyone in it. I have never seen such a display of hateful, selfish, self-centered flips in my life.
– Dave Mustaine
Way of life in Australia focuses more on the outdoors.
– Thomas Muster
In the phrases of songs and poems bread is gold, it is the motherland, it is the hard work of the masses, it is life itself.
– Seth Mydans
A real parish is a wondrously beautiful web of human relationship which is given meaning by the man who is Himself the meaning of life.
– C. Kilmer Myers
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
– Vladimir Nabokov
For almost 70 years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
– Ralph Nader
Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.
– V. S. Naipaul
In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.
– John Naisbitt
I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.
– Joe Namath
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
– Ogden Nash
I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world. Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the affect they have on others.
– Steve Nash
I have to say I've worked very few days of my life. I used to have to cut the lawn, and when I was in junior high school, I worked at a concession stand at a stadium.
– Steve Nash
I'm not a joiner of clubs... But this is a pretty cool club to be in. The past inductees are brilliant, brilliant musicians that have touched my life in many ways, and to be worthy of such company is flattering to me and I appreciate it.
– Graham Nash
If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.
– Graham Nash
My mother, originally Margaret Virginia Martin, but called Virginia, was herself also born in Bluefield. She had studied at West Virginia University and was a school teacher before her marriage, teaching English and sometimes Latin. But my mother's later life was considerably affected by a partial loss of hearing resulting from a scarlet fever infection that came at the time when she was a student at WVU.
– John Nash
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
– George Jean Nathan
I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
– Gloria Naylor
I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
– Sam Neill
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
– Horatio Nelson
Americans of all ages deserve quality end-of-life medical care.
– Bill Nelson
Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.
– Kent Nerburn
Remember that you don't choose love; love chooses you. All you really can do is accept it for all its mystery when it comes into your life. Feel the way it fills you to overflowing then reach out and give it away.
– Kent Nerburn