Quotes about: life

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.
– Al Hirschfeld
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
– Alfred Hitchcock
One must never set up a murder. They must happen unexpectedlly, as in life.
– Alfred Hitchcock
City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.
– Edward Hoagland
There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.
– Edward Hoagland
There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved situation over and over in your life.
– Russell Hoban
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
– Thomas Hobbes
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
– Thomas Hobbes
The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.
– Thomas Hobbes
Caring for our seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who walked before us have given so much and made possible the life we all enjoy.
– John Hoeven
Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.
– Eric Hoffer
Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.
– Eric Hoffer
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
– Eric Hoffer
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness.
– Eric Hoffer
The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.
– Eric Hoffer
The only index by which to judge a government or a way of life is by the quality of the people it acts upon. No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion- it is an evil government.
– Eric Hoffer
The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered with certainty.
– Eric Hoffer
Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
– Abbie Hoffman
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
– Ben Hogan
I'm not an aspiring young actor, I'm a storyteller who made it late in life and I'm therefore an inspiration to everyone who thinks that at 23 if you're not in the Backstreet Boys then you're never gonna make it.
– Paul Hogan
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
– Billie Holiday
Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.
– Brad Holland
Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life.
– Brad Holland
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide - that is, violent treatment of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life - are alike forbidden.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.
– Lou Holtz
If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.
– Lou Holtz
It would probably kill me to have such a thing appear. The most interesting part of my life is of no concern to the public.
– Winslow Homer
Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.
– Bell Hooks
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
– Bell Hooks
I cannot forget that, just as my life was touching its fullest flower, love came and destroyed it all in a single hour.
– Laurence Hope
He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
– Horace
Life is largely a matter of expectation.
– Horace
Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
– Horace
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
– Horace
Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.
– Doug Horton
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
– Doug Horton
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
– A. E. Housman
I would lay down my life to defend any one of the States from aggression, which endangered peace or threatened its institutions. I could do more for the union, but I wish to do more; for the destruction of the union would be the destruction of all the States. A stab in the heart is worse then a cut in a limb, for this may be healed.
– Sam Houston
You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
– Vernon Howard
Truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.
– John Howard
One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.
– Ron Howard
For Christians, the reason why it is ordinarily assumed that a marriage will go on till death do us part has been that this advanced lesson in Charity which marriage opens into is a long, a difficult one, and the life span that my spouse and I are allowed will certainly not be nearly long enough to finish the lesson... I will have as much as I can do to learn this advanced lesson well with one other person; a harem will only confuse my efforts.
– Thomas Howard
All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
– Edgar Watson Howe
When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
– Edgar Watson Howe
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
– John Howe
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
– Elbert Hubbard
Life isn't all beer and skittles.
– Thomas Hughes
When I first came here, I thought, wouldn't it be great to get a medal, and I was third last year at Worlds, and it was a huge step up for me, and it was just a huge moment in my life, and, y'know, once I got here, it really didn't matter any more to me. I just wanted to go out and enjoy the experience. I wanted to skate.
– Sarah Hughes
When I started my program... there was a big clock in the corner and I looked and it said nine o'clock exactly. And it was funny, because when I was standing on the podium, it said exactly 10 p.m., and this whole hour had changed my life.
– Sarah Hughes
It was my fourth Pan Ams, but I still had experiences that I will remember all my life. The people were so wonderful and warm, and I had a great time.
– Clara Hughes
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
– Victor Hugo
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
– Victor Hugo
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
– Victor Hugo
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
– Victor Hugo
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
– Wilhelm von Humboldt
A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
We are in danger of making our cities places where business goes on but where life, in its real sense, is lost.
– Hubert H. Humphrey
My desire is to usher in an unprecedented period of cooperation and community building. People reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic - a state that is truly respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness must be our hope.
– Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Being a painter is a lonely, desolate life, but I learned by observing people, observing conditions around me, the way things worked. And I've found that painting-which I still do-has helped me a great deal as an actor. There's a surprising amount in common.
– John Hurt
I've spent a great deal of my life doing independent film, and that is partly because the subject matter interests me and partly because that is the basis of the film industry. That's where the filmmakers come from, it's where they start and sometimes its where they should have stayed.
– John Hurt
My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might happen to her.
– John Hurt
Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.
– John Hurt
What's the difference, actually, between believing in a God on one side or the other, Catholic or Protestant? It's all the same if you accept it. Much of our morality is based on things completely outmoded. But people are wonderful. There's no harm in them, they're not the problem. It's governments and politics that make wars and do stupid things, and they should be attended to. There's no security in this life.
– John Hurt
I know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I'm simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that's a vulnerable moment in every actor's life, and it happens every time you finish a film.
– Anjelica Huston
Some people had fathers who were bankers or farmers, my father made films, that's how I saw it. As for the movie stars, they were just around, some of them were friends, others weren't, it was all just a part of my everyday life.
– Anjelica Huston
Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.
– Anjelica Huston
Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.
– Aldous Huxley
Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting.
– Aldous Huxley
Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.
– Aldous Huxley
Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful - if strenuously led - as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.
– Aldous Huxley
The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.
– Aldous Huxley
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
– Thomas Henry Huxley
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
– Thomas Henry Huxley
For the first time in Ireland within my recollection, Catholic and Protestant, Unionist and Nationalist, landlord and tenant, priest and parson, all work hand in hand in the interest of Ireland's life and intellectuality.
– Douglas Hyde
I cannot conceive a more acute pain in the power of sentiment to inflict than that which I should feel if, after a life passed in England or the colonies or India, I were to come back to my native mountains and find that the indifference or the actual discouragement of our leaders had succeeded in destroying the language of my childhood.
– Douglas Hyde
For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace.
– King Hussein
I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain.
– King Hussein
I believe with all my heart that if a man is to give of his best he must live the fundamental life of an ordinary man. One cannot hide behind a title or a position or a throne. One can be proud of one's responsibilities, just as I am, but one cannot use titles or position as a shield.
– King Hussein
I had realized from the outset that vanity was a fatal affliction and that the only life worth adhering to, was one representing a journey of struggle in the service of exalted values and noble aims, one that recognizes that every living soul will meet its destined end, for which there always is a good account. When the time comes, no hour could be postponed or brought forward.
– King Hussein
I have a simple philosophy about life and death. How easily it comes and how easily it can end! What man can afford to waste time? At any moment death can claim anyone, and when it does, death itself is unimportant. The only thing that matters is the work that one has accomplished.
– King Hussein
I never was one of those ambitious people craving for expansion. I believe in God and life after death. Each one of us lives his days according to the will of God. I believe also in nations and that individuals' efforts should be dedicated for the good of nations and not for idolizing persons.
– King Hussein
I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence.
– King Hussein
In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure.
– King Hussein
Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.
– King Hussein
My dearest wish is for the verdict of future generations to be for me and not against me, since I realize that shouldering responsibility at this point in time entails an acceptance of life's voyage under the most difficult circumstances, which are viciously inimical to those with a great heart and living conscience.
– King Hussein
Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes.
– King Hussein
The quality of life of the individual citizen is the ultimate yardstick by which to measure the success of any government. Jordan's development record, though impressive by many standards, was always hampered not only by the ongoing conflict, but also by the scarcity of resources. Our answer was to invest in our most precious asset, the individual citizen.
– King Hussein
There's so much in the Quran on peace, as there is on submission to one God, the attributes of God, heaven and respect for the other two monotheistic religions. These are teachings we don't much hear about, but they affect me in my political life, supporting my firm belief that I'm doing the right thing. It's along these lines that so much can be taught.
– King Hussein
O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions, - sweeter days are thine!
– Helen Hunt Jackson