Quotes about: life

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration.
– David Herbert Lawrence
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
– David Herbert Lawrence
The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.
– David Herbert Lawrence
The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great -quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
– David Herbert Lawrence
Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.
– David Herbert Lawrence
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
– Stephen B. Leacock
My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.
– Denis Leary
My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
– Timothy Leary
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
– Fran Lebowitz
Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
– Fran Lebowitz
Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
– Fran Lebowitz
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
– Bruce Lee
As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.
– Harper Lee
My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.
– General Robert E. Lee
Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.
– Peggy Lee
A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts.
– Brandon Lee
Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.
– Brandon Lee
Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.
– Brandon Lee
The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.
– Brandon Lee
They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look elegant, and you can lead a happy life in a wheelchair. I know I've helped handicapped people, because I've received many comments.
– Anna Lee
Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
– Tom Lehrer
I've derived a lot of pleasure and education from the theatre. It's great when audiences really enjoy it. It's part of my life.
– Mike Leigh
There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.
– Mike Leigh
It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
– Jack Lemmon
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
– Bob Lemon
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.
– John Lennon
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
– John Lennon
I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss, whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have dreams.
– Annie Lennox
An Israeli man's life was saved when he was given a Palestinian man's heart in a heart transplant operation. The guy is doing fine, but the bad news is, he can't stop throwing rocks at himself.
– Jay Leno
Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research. He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
– Jay Leno
Dick Cheney told reports that he has a new outlook on life. He says the best part of waking up is... waking up! I guess the doctors don't even put stitches in Cheney's chest anymore - they now just use Velcro.
– Jay Leno
Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.
– Max Lerner
When you act, you do have to use your own life experiences and bring them onto the stage, dragging those emotions out.
– John Leslie
When you work in television it's all about you, the camera is on you and the autocue is counting you in. The person I am on TV is the same person I am in real life, but acting means playing a completely different person.
– John Leslie
For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
– Doris Lessing
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
– Doris Lessing
I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.
– Doris Lessing
At one point I was doing a live television Western five half hours a week with horses and stunt men and it was a nightmare. The reason that this is apposite is that it accustomed me a) to work quickly b) to work with many cameras and c) to be hysterical. And I've carried that with me in my life and work.
– Richard Lester
Contemporary serial music is like a sailless ship, driven out to sea by its captain, who is privately convinced that by subjecting life aboard to the rules of an elaborate protocol, he will prevent the crew from thinking nostalgically either of their home port or of their ultimate destination.
– Claude Levi-Strauss
It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably.
– Carl Levin
I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for myself.
– Monica Lewinsky
If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should we not look forward to the arrival?
– C. S. Lewis
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
– C. S. Lewis
The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.
– Wyndham Lewis
Life is about timing.
– Carl Lewis
All that schooling never prepares you for the reality of life.
– Juliette Lewis
The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.
– Juliette Lewis
Jesus, Drop Kick Me Through the Goal Post of Life.
– Jerry Lee Lewis
You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film - you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.
– Daniel Day Lewis
When you're in love it's the most glorious two and a half days of your life.
– Richard Lewis
The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is going to hell in the papers.
– Michael Lewis
Where there is life there is wishful thinking.
– Gerald F. Lieberman
Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.
– Bob Lilly
Football is like life and I know life.
– Rush Limbaugh
Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'
– Mary Todd Lincoln
My Cape women are generally true to type - big hearted, motherly women who love the sea. My other characters, with the exception of the Portuguese, who I occasionally mention as Cape dwellers, are obviously drawn from the city types one sees in everyday life.
– Joseph C. Lincoln
Charles is life itself-pure life, force, like sunlight-and it is for this that I married him and this that holds me to him-caring always, caring desperately what happens to him and whatever he happens to be involved in.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life.
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
– Charles Lindbergh
In wilderness I sense the miracle of life, and behind it our scientific accomplishments fade to trivia.
– Charles Lindbergh
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
– Charles Lindbergh
Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life simple. It is man who complicates it.
– Charles Lindbergh
I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.
– John Walker Lindh
I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
– Vachel Lindsay
I came from the air. I came from the moon. I just landed. Traveling, it's a constant in my life. Sometimes I feel like I'm naturally high because of this lifestyle. Sometimes I really feel like I'm the air or on the moon, and that's that. Of course, I originally came from China.
– Bai Ling
I worked with a wild leopard, who bit me. But I kept on working with him, because I have a wild side. I think I was an animal in a previous life.
– Bai Ling
I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
– Bai Ling
Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.
– Charles de Lint
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known?
– Charles de Lint
A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
– Walter Lippmann
Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
– Walter Lippmann
I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.
– Meat Loaf
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
– John Locke
Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the other way round.
– David Lodge
Life is full of risks anyway, why not take them?
– Lindsay Lohan
A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.
– Vince Lombardi
Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.
– Vince Lombardi
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
– Vince Lombardi
People are more laid back and live life a little slower in Winchester. In New York (and now Los Angeles), everything is bam, bam, bam - you have to go fast and move.
– Matt Long
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Into each life some rain must fall.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable... Foods that are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance and disease.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love - the first fluttering of its siken wings.
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.
– Al Lopez
The youngsters coming up now just go through the motions necessary to make the play. They should bounce around a little, show some life and zip. It adds a little action and gives the fans something to look at rather than the monotonous routine, no matter how perfectly the play is made.
– Al Lopez
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
– Sophia Loren
The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.
– Sophia Loren
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
– Sophia Loren
I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China. I think part of maturity is knowing who you are. If people don't like it, it is not going to affect how I feel.
– Rob Lowe
I have other obligations now-the show, my family, my life...though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.
– Rob Lowe
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
– Amy Lowell
As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
– James Russell Lowell
It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.
– James Russell Lowell
Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
– James Russell Lowell
I'm lucky that I hooked up with my husband because he not only helps me but there's a joy for him as well. He enjoyed this part of me when we met. He was never threatened by it, by a woman who wanted a career. In fact, I think he prefers this, that I have a life as well. And I know my children have always known that they came first.
– Susan Lucci
Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.
– Henry R. Luce