Quotes about: life

We are meant to express how we feel about life. It's like breathing: Inhale the experiences of life, exhale how you feel about them. We are at our best when we can turn our impressions into expressions. The equation goes like this: Impression without expression equals depression.
– Don Hahn
I don't think I really invented anybody. I have drawn on real life.
– Arthur Hailey
I love the irony - I've spent over 400 hours of my life looking for comets, and haven't found anything, and now, suddenly, when I'm not looking for one, I get one dumped in my lap.
– Alan Hale
The man who loves his country prefers its liberty to all other considerations, well knowing that without liberty, life is a misery.
– Andrew Hamilton
Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.
– Butch Hancock
If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger?
– Sean Hannity
Tea and books - Mmmmmm, two of life's exquisite pleasures that together bring near-bliss.
– Christine Hanrahan
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life-changing difference.
– Mark Victor Hansen
Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black woman, the daughter of a dining-car worker If my life has any meaning at all, it is that those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system.
– Patricia Roberts Harris
When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?'
– Sydney Harris
Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.
– Henry S. Haskins
She has been Stalinized out of literary history on the theory that she messed up Eliot's life.
– Michael Hastings
I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.
– Aaliyah Haughton
Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.
– Paul Hawken
If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.
– Louise L. Hay
Your prosperity consciousness is not dependent on money; your flow of money is dependent on your prosperity consciousness. As you can conceive of more, more will come into your life.
– Louise L. Hay
I've had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven't run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can't outwork you, then smarts aren't going to do them much good. That's just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you'd be surprised at how much fun you can have.
– Woody Hayes
I think people are shocked when I do other characters. Right now I'm doing a little workshop play in New York and at the Groundlings [an L.A. improv troupe] and I play a completely other character - I think they are shocked when I'm not Jack. Slowly people are seeing outside of the box and realizing that I became an actor to play other roles and not just one role for the rest of my life. I'm writing stuff for myself, too, because some people don't get that I want to do other things.
– Sean Hayes
If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.
– Gabriel Heatter
I just couldn't finish anything. I wrote a lot of first chapters, but the desire to push it through to completion just wasn't there. Instead, I focused on the other parts of my life. Elaine and I had two children, I was racing a lot, and I was working on becoming a good forensic psychologist.
– Richard M. Helms
The simple things, like how to hang a sentence together, how to write dialogue that keeps the story moving - all of these had to be learned. In addition, it was during these years that I was growing a life from which I could derive the basic ingredients of a good story. Without the experiences I was stockpiling during those years, it would not have been possible to produce the next two or three books.
– Richard M. Helms
I'm in constant search of new information and ideas, and I want to make the best of this short time that we're out here on this planet living this nebulous thing called life. And I want to plant a few trees along the way and nurture some minds and watch them grow, as people did for me.
– Joe Henderson
Madam, Life's a piece in bloom death goes dogging everywhere: She's the tenant of the room he's the ruffian on the stair.
– William Ernest Henley
I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or destination in mind. An adventurous man, open to the concept of living life in the moment.
– Jill Hennessy
I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed.
– Matthew Henry
Inge did not transform his characters: They end where they began. But he understood them. In their interplay was genuine life, often blunted but ever resilient.
– William A. Henry III
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.
– Don Herold
It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
– Don Herold
The best of all monopoly profits is a quiet life.
– J. R. Hicks
I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.
– Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Jodie Foster may continue to outwardly ignore me for the rest of my life, but I have made her one of the most famous actresses in the world.
– John W. Hinckley, Jr.
It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.
– John E. Hines
The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination... you can make feast of straw.
– Jane Stanton Hitchcock
There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury problem.
– Philip Seymour Hoffman
I don't care who or what judges me, nothing's going to stop me from living my life how I choose.
– Amanda Holden
No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.
– Raymond Holliwell
Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.
– Ernest Holmes
For me, the most memorable adventures are still the perils that we face daily in life and love, from the mundane to the meaningful. Where the comedy is often at our own expense, but where the drama, even if painful, reminds us that we are living and feeling here in the real time, with the ever-recurring possibility that this latest chapter will end with new understanding, hope and perhaps even happiness.
– Rupert Holmes
Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.
– Rupert Holmes
I once had a small role in one of my own plays, a thriller which happened to become a big hit on the West Coast. Its run was extended month after month and thus for over a year I found myself living the life of a stage actor: eight shows a week, with only one day off, a day dedicated solely to recovering from the five-show weekend I'd just turned in.
– Rupert Holmes
I'd been a cult singer-songwriter generally well-regarded by some of the better vocalists and journalists of the seventies. Suddenly, a mass audience perceived me as a troubadour who'd dedicated his life to extolling the virtues of pineapple-based beverages.
– Rupert Holmes
The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.
– Winifred Holtby
There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.
– Soichiro Honda
Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.
– Sidney Hook
The artwork I've done for Obsidian has been a real joy to work on. I liked working on the underground city piece. It forced me to work with a lot of perspective, as well as try to get the day to day life of the people in the world... That and I got to draw a tough looking woman.
– Fred Hooper
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
– Anthony Hopkins
Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.
– Arthur Hoppe
In New Orleans, gluttony is a way of life.
– Morton J. Horwitz
Life is a tempermental state of mind.
– Jordan Hostetler
I think my escape from the Siberian Transport was my most difficult performance. I was placed in the great vault usually assigned to political prisoners, and when the great door was shut, I had the hardest time of my life, perhaps, in releasing myself. But nevertheless, it took me 18 minutes to walk out, and face the dazed officials.
– Harry Houdini
I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.
– Jean Houston
Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.
– Marion Howard
I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.
– Bryce Dallas Howard
I want them dunked-plunged deeply into life, brought up gasping and dripping, and returned to us humble and ready to learn.
– Reuel Howe
Until all students are faced by the tragedies, the contradictions and the stark questions of life, they cannot understand the need for redemption or God's redemptive action.
– Reuel Howe
My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right ? What is just? What is for the public good?
– Joseph Howe
Those who know me best well know that I would rather give the little leisure that a laborious life affords to my books and my fireside, rather than to those bickerings and disputes by which it is divided, and by which man is too often, without sufficient cause, set in array against his fellow-man.
– Joseph Howe
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
– Eliot Hubbard
If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.
– Shirley Hufstedler
Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risk.
– Shirley Hufstedler
We must learn to do more with temptation than just bear it - we must learn to use it. The secret of using temptation, and turning it to our advantage, is one of life's greatest secrets. Once we have learned it we are unbeatable and unbreakable.
– Selwyn Hughes
It is not easy to be a nun. It is a life of sacrifice and self-abnegation. It is a life against nature. Poverty, chastity and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them. Pray that you may all become St Johns, lovers of Christ.
– Kathryn Hulme
I really haven't made up my mind yet. A lot of people have encouraged me to consider running, and others have cautioned against it, saying it's a good way to ruin your life.
– Sandy Hume
I think families are so great, because when you go home, no matter what you've accomplished in your life, you still are the person you were in sixth grade to them. You know, it never really changes.
– Bonnie Hunt
If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.
– Bonnie Hunt
Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor, and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will collapse.
– Henrik Ibsen
Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.
– Vanilla Ice
I really feel like I've been given a second chance and to see so many people coming out to embrace my new sound is a blessing. And a lot of people, after seeing the VH1 special, feel like they get to know me personally because my whole life has been a big misconception about me personally.
– Vanilla Ice
This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen.
– Vanilla Ice
You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.
– Daisaku Ikeda
School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
– Ivan Illich
My goal is to goad people into saying something that ruins their life.
– Don Imus
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.
– William Ralph Inge
Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
– William Ralph Inge
Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
– William Ralph Inge
I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
– Robert Green Ingersoll
I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.
– Eugene Ionesco
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
– Eugene Ionesco
Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be.
– Jeremy Irons
Half my life is an act of revision.
– John Irving
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
– John Irving
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.
– Washington Irving
Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
– Christopher Isherwood
I think the judging process is full of integrity, compared to some other prizes around the world. The fact that they change the panel of judges every year keeps it from becoming corrupt. I think it's very difficult if you've got judges for life; obviously relationships are cultivated between judges and authors, and publishing houses.
– Kazuo Ishiguro
Nagasaki is not just a few hazy images. I remember it as a real chunk of my life.
– Kazuo Ishiguro
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
– Kazuo Ishiguro
There was this idea, which felt almost like a conspiracy, that a writer in his 30s was early in a writing life. But I realised you should think more in terms of the length and timing of a footballer's career. Your best chance of producing a decent book comes somewhere between 30 and 45, and I suddenly saw my life as a finite number of books.
– Kazuo Ishiguro
What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.
– Kazuo Ishiguro
When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.
– Kazuo Ishiguro
When you are young, things like your moral stance and your political position seem very important. I'd spend long nights with my friends sorting out moral and political positions that we thought would take us through adult life. And part of that would end up meaning we despised some people not for what they did, but for the opinions they professed to hold.
– Kazuo Ishiguro
While it is important to have principles, you have far less control of what happens. These principles and positions only get you so far, because what actually happens is that you don't carefully chart your way through life. You are picked up by a wind every now and again and dumped down somewhere else.
– Kazuo Ishiguro
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
– Charles Ives
You should never blame the other woman, never. There is life after Kevin, and I'm living it!
– Shar Jackson
I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes of my life, that politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. If we don't like how we live, we can participate in the perfect most revolutionary act in a democracy, it's called voting.
– Maynard Jackson
I tell ya, the easiest 14 hour day of my life was shooting those two scenes in OCEAN'S 11. Only an absolute idiot would turn down the opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. If they need another cameo, I'm their huckleberry.
– Joshua Jackson
I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.
– Joshua Jackson
I'm married now, so I have a life. I had to get a life. That's one thing I really had to do, you know. You do that kind of work on television series after television series and you don't have a life. So, that's part of what I did while I was gone, I got a life.
– Kate Jackson
It was not... that she was unaware of the frayed and ragged edges of life. She would merely iron them out with a firm hand and neatly hem them down.
– P. D. James
I don't need too much. Glamour and all that stuff don't excite me. I am just glad I have the game of basketball in my life.
– LeBron James