Life Quotes

Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism - revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life.
– Robert Lanza
Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.
– Sissy Spacek
Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
– Leonard Boswell
Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.
– Robert Casey
Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
– Wade Boggs
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
– Victor Hugo
Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.
– Charles Stanley
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
– Thomas Jefferson
Our family life was certainly not intellectual.
– Douglass North
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.
– Ruth St. Denis
Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.
– Dennis Prager
Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.
– Daniel Libeskind
Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
– Karl Jaspers
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
– Stefan Zweig
One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York.
– Mike Judge
One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.
– Chris Christie
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
– Meister Eckhart
One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.
– Julius Erving
One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense.
– Jennifer Carpenter
One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate.
– Carla Gugino
One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.
– Hugh Laurie
One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.
– Julius Erving
One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that's all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.
– Nick Carter
One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.
– James Dobson
One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.
– Gene Robinson
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
– Ben Okri
One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.
– Andre Dubus III
One of my dreams in life is to do fund-raising for the youth.
– Picabo Street
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
– Gustave Flaubert
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
– E. M. Forster
One makes mistakes that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.
– Romain Rolland
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
– Jean-Paul Sartre
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
– Sir Walter Scott
Once you're in the game and it's a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you're doing.
– Joe Sakic
Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.
– Billy Connolly
Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger.
– Kgalema Motlanthe
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
– Nina Simone
On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.
– Martin Sheen
On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my er, below average looks, hook up with hottie John Corbett.
– Nia Vardalos
On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.
– Richard Serra
On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.
– Madonna Ciccone
On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.
– Naomi Watts
On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.
– Michael Tolkin
On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.
– Jimmy Carter
On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.
– Emile Hirsch
Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.
– Oksana Baiul
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper - someone who keeps track of what he gives and what he gets in return. An annoying quality, to say the least, and I'm sure my wife has your sympathy, but it's made me highly attuned to when and where credit is due.
– Mark Feuerstein
OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay and so I was, like, 'Why in the heck did you get married?' Like, what was going on? What was that time? It's like this crazy paradox that my whole life is based on, or my family's based on. So I spent a lot of time trying to understand '55.
– Mike Mills
Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.
– Kyle Chandler
Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
– Lafcadio Hearn
Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The nonhuman forms of life with which we 6,000 million talking, upright apes share this finite planet are directly or indirectly connected to our well-being.
– Lynn Margulis
Of course, I'm older now. I'm in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for 'Car Wheels' or 'Essence' or whatever. Different things were going on.
– Lucinda Williams
Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.
– Joan Collins
Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
– A. N. Wilson
Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.
– John Selden
Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.
– Elizabeth Moss
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children.
– Ron Fournier
Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a way of life. It's not because you're born here. It's not that you're supposed to take from those who have and give to those who haven't. That kills a country. It killed Russia.
– Luke Scott
O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
– Barry Cornwall
Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.
– Sarah Zettel
Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.
– Charles Kuralt
Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.
– Michael D. Higgins
Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.
– Jim Valvano
Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
– Hugh Mackay
Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
– Andrew Bernstein
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
– Angela Carter
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
– Alvar Aalto
Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.
– Jeff Foxworthy
Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.
– Roger Staubach
Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.
– Louis Farrakhan
Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
– Samuel L. Jackson
Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.
– William Falconer
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.
– Conan O'Brien
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.
– Kinky Friedman
No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.
– Jimmy Connors
No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.
– Antonio Tabucchi
No, I like to wear as least amount of makeup as I can during my everyday life because I'm just all about keeping my skin healthy and hydrated and I love to laugh and have a great time and smile - that's when I feel the most pretty so I just want to make sure that I stay happy.
– Lily Collins
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
– Samuel Goldwyn
No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.
– Mitt Romney
No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
– Horatio Alger
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
– Steve Jobs
No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.
– Bill Murray
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
– Martha Beck
No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
– Gary Allan
No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability far more unused than used power.
– James Cash Penney
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
– Jonathan Swift
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
– Thomas Huxley
New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.
– Wendell Pierce
New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning.
– Robert Asprin
Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
– Vaclav Klaus
Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen.
– Corin Nemec
Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.
– Eleanor Robson Belmont
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
– C. Wright Mills
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
– Carl Sandburg
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.
– Ivan Turgenev
Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.
– Godfrey Reggio