Quotes about: life

Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it.
– Elaine St. James
The accumulation of small, optimistic acts produces quality in our culture and in your life. Our culture resonates in tense times to individual acts of grace.
– Jennifer James
I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing.
– Cheryl James
One of the speakers asked how many women had been harassed or abused sexually in their life? There were thousands of women in the audience, and almost every one of them raised her hand.
– Cheryl James
The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.
– Gerald Jampolsky
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
– Gerald Jampolsky
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
– Randall Jarrell
A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.
– William Jay
I was lucky to be able to call Christopher Reeve a friend.His passion for life and for improving the lives of all Americans serves an inspiration to all of us. He may have played the character of Superman in the movies, but he lived the role of a superman through his life.
– James Jeffords
Censorship in any form is the enemy of creativity, since it cuts off the life blood of creativity: ideas.
– Allan Jenkins
I made a big mistake of my life.
– Robert Jenkins
The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life.
– Roy Jenkins
I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
– Bruce Jenner
The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.
– John Jensen
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
– Douglas William Jerrold
I see a man taking a break in his highly structured life, reading a newspaper in the park, or a young man sitting on a curb eating a sandwich and reading a book, taking the moment for himself. I celebrate these moments in bronze.
– J. Steward Johnson, Jr.
I think a lot of people think about the wrongs they did in life at some point. I can't make amends for the reason I'm on death row because my life was in jeopardy, but I wish things were different. But yes, I've done wrongs in life although there were petty things and I have made my peace with God, as should most people.
– Lonnie Earl Johnson
Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves-to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
– Stewart B. Johnson
To be honest, I just didn't want to say Thank you, Please, and Come again for the rest of my life. I felt like if I wanted to do this - films and TV - I didn't have the expectation that someone else would write for me. So I started writing for myself. And for the most part, I lied.
– Orlando Jones
If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to decline, for life would no longer teach me anything.
– Allyson Jones
It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.
– K. T. Jong
I have great admiration and respect for the men and women of the U.S. armed forces, with whom I have worked closely and been embedded in Baghdad, Tikrit, and Mosul and other places. As for my colleagues at CNN, I am enormously proud to have worked with you, risking my life in the trenches with you.
– Eason Jordan
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
– William George Jordan
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of your head.
– Terry Josephson
You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other people want you to do and be, but are directed by your own inner desires.
– H. Stanley Judd
Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
– Franz Kafka
Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.
– Franz Kafka
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
– Franz Kafka
We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
– Abdul Kalam
The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.
– Garson Kanin
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
– Immanuel Kant
Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
– Hamid Karzai
It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.
– Patrick Kavanagh
I gotta do some sad scenes. Why, I never tried to make anybody cry in my life! And I go 'round all the time dolled up in kippie clothes-wear everything but a corset! Can't stub my toe in this picture nor anything! Just imagine having to play-act all the time without ever getting hit with anything!
– Buster Keaton
There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the universe.
– Michael Keaton
I want to resume the life of a shy person.
– Garrison Keillor
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
– Helen Keller
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
– Helen Keller
Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
– Helen Keller
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
– Helen Keller
Awake, my soul, and with the sun thy daily course of duty run. Cast off dull sloth, and joyful rise to pay thy morning sacrifice. All praise to thee, who safe hast kept and hast refreshed me while I slept! Grant, Lord, when I from death shall wake, I may of endless life partake.
– Thomas Ken
I want to live my life, not record it.
– Jackie Kennedy
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
– John F. Kennedy
All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.
– John F. Kennedy
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
– John F. Kennedy
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
– John F. Kennedy
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.
– John F. Kennedy
If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion.
– John F. Kennedy
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.
– John F. Kennedy
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
– John F. Kennedy
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.
– John F. Kennedy
There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.
– John F. Kennedy
Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
– Robert Francis Kennedy
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.
– Rose Kennedy
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
– Rose Kennedy
Life is a succession of moments, To live each one is to succeed.
– Corita Kent
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
– Jean Kerr
Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella-no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.
– Jean Kerr
I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life.
– John F. Kerry
I'm proud to say that Martin Luther King touched all of us, but particularly touched the spirit of my generation with his life, his spirit, his activism - and ultimately the lessons and legacy he left behind for us to carry on.
– John F. Kerry
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
– Charles F. Kettering
The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
– John Maynard Keynes
Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
– Omar Khayyam
Life is short. Live it up.
– Nikita Khrushchev
What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.
– Victor Kiam
That the Journal of the said Captain Kidd being violently taken from him in the Port of St. Marie's in Madagascar, and his life many times being threatened to be taken away from him by 97 of his men that deserted him there, he cannot give that exact Account he otherwise could have done, but as far as his memory will serve is as followeth.
– William Kidd
Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.
– Nicole Kidman
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
– Soren Kierkegaard
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
– Soren Kierkegaard
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
– Soren Kierkegaard
In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all.
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
In ten phrases, the ten commandments express the essential of life. And these three words-liberty, equality, and fraternity-do just as much. Millions of people have died for those ideals.
– Krzysztof Kieslowski
Throughout my life, I have always lived with adversity and will continue to have faith and do good for my family, friends and fans.
– Lil' Kim
As life's pleasures go, food is second only to sex. Except for salami and eggs. Now that's better than sex, but only if the salami is thickly sliced.
– Alan King
Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.
– Florence King
The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
– Florence King
Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.
– Larry King
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.
– Stephen King
I've taken off two months, three months at a time, and, by the end, I get really squirrelly. My night life, my dream life, gets extremely populated and crazed.
– Stephen King
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, Why god? Why me? and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.
– Stephen King
The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.
– Charles Kingsley
A cello's soul is the resonance that makes it unique: how it was made, when it was made, who's played it. Mine may be who my parents were, what I know about life, who I love and have loved. All that makes my bones resonate. If a director is fortunate enough to tap into that, it's an endless well of information.
– Ben Kingsley
I don't think that making ourselves invulnerable to feeling any onslaught to our feelings will help us in life, ultimately. I think we only learn and grow by allowing ourselves to be really challenged by those feelings that do overwhelm us occasionally.
– Ben Kingsley
I knew India not at all. I mean, I had never been before in my life.
– Ben Kingsley
I now see on the screen certain ways in which Gandhiji greets people, how he treats every single individual in his life as somebody precious, valued and never never to be humiliated, but uplifted and elevated.
– Ben Kingsley
I think with those who are gifted to make epic cinema, the vision required, again, is that the equation between the director and the story and the leading protagonists has to be one of mathematical precision and balance and grace. It's not possible to put the epic sweep of history that held Gandhi's life on screen unless the director himself has those qualities in him or her.
– Ben Kingsley
If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
– Ben Kingsley
It would frighten me if I were to learn somewhere along the line that all of those emotions had been suppressed throughout my entire life, that would be very scary, because nature would express them, somehow, in some form.
– Ben Kingsley
It's very difficult to be objective about one's childhood because you have no perspective on it. I have nothing to compare it with. The only way I can lead any kind of a comparative life is to portray other men.
– Ben Kingsley
There's always a part of me that's migrating. That's so much part of my attempt to portray all these different men. The sense of being displaced from my home, homeland and language is a very real part of my working life.
– Ben Kingsley
It wasn't a matter of courage or dreams, but something a whole lot simpler. A pilot would call it ground orientation. I'd spent a long time circling above the clouds, looking for life, while Hallie was living it.
– Barbara Kingsolver
The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
– Barbara Kingsolver
Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
– Barbara Kingsolver
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
– Henry A. Kissinger
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
– Paul Klee
There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about that is the key to success.
– Philip Knight
Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the school.
– John Knowles