Quotes about: life

Being Elvis Presley's daughter is a whole lot of pressure. It's been a constant burden in my life.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I also did a record because, as I've said, music has had such a huge impact on me all my life, and my hope was to affect others musically the way I was affected.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I do feel relieved. I do feel like I did what I needed to do for myself, and for whoever's out there who wants to be moved by me. I aimed it at people who are willing to be moved by music as I have in my life. It's more about the music for me. It is a relief.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I don't respond to music that's not honest, and music's had a huge influence on my whole life. It's gotten me through everything. I don't respond to music that's full of crap . Since it's also a therapeutic and cathartic thing for me to write, I'm not going to go halfway or be some puffball.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I got an early education on how bad men and women can act. Most of those people were sucking the life out of him.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I write about subjects that are close to my heart, but not every one of them is necessarily about the men in my life. Maybe two or three at most ... That's why I called it To Whom It May Concern. Go speculate.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I'm doing it because music's been such a profound influence on me and my whole life and gotten me through everything. I thought I could use this album as a vehicle, an outlet of whatever I've been through, and I wanted to see if I could affect others. It's as simple as that.
– Lisa Marie Presley
I'm sure there's no way to escape the fact that I was heavily influenced by him. I was only around his music and him most of the early part of my life. It's impossible not to have been inspired or influenced.
– Lisa Marie Presley
Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music.
– Lisa Marie Presley
Music has had a profound effect on me all my life. I wanted to be able to give that to others, believe it or not.
– Lisa Marie Presley
Music's always been such a big part of my life - it's always got me through everything and it always moves me - so I wanted to move others in some way, or touch them, and use my art with my own fingerprint in it.
– Lisa Marie Presley
My life has been unusual. I was born to unusual circumstances, but I'm surviving and going through crap just like anybody else. Sure, it might be on a different level and maybe in a different way, but my life is the same as anybody's. When people look at any life under a microscope, it might seem terrible, but I've met people with worse stories.
– Lisa Marie Presley
Scientology explains to me the answers to life, the mind, people, insanity, man, in a way that, to me, is applicable. It doesn't use fear, or suppression or the devil - it's not repressive. Mainly, it's a way for me to figure out who I am. It's a lot of self-discovery; it's not someone you follow or praise.
– Lisa Marie Presley
Scientology is an encyclopaedia for life. It's non-denominational, it doesn't judge, it's a lot about self-discovery, and it helped me so much for one reason: it works. It helped me through my drugs, and it helps me still. It's my main anchor in life.
– Lisa Marie Presley
The lyrics are more conceptual than anything. They're not particularly about a person. They're just metaphorical, conceptual, of a time and place, ideal, life, that I once knew.
– Lisa Marie Presley
A man who limits his interests, limits his life.
– Vincent Price
I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
– J. B. Priestley
Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
– J. B. Priestley
Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
– Matthew Prior
In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life.
– Marcel Proust
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
– Marcel Proust
Life does not stand still for families and local communities when our brave men and women are deployed, but we can make their time apart more bearable by recognizing their sacrifice and fulfilling our commitments to them.
– Mark Pryor
Our aims are absolutely clear: They are a high living standard in the country and a secure, free and comfortable life.
– Vladimir Putin
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
– Pythagoras
If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.
– Pythagoras
In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
– Pythagoras
The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
– Pythagoras
Since everything in life is but an experience perfect in being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.
– Long Chen Pa
Law students are trained in the case method, and to the lawyer everything in life looks like a case.
– Edward Packard, Jr.
Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.
– Sara Paddison
We are one big family of people, trying to make our way through the unfolding puzzle of life.
– Sara Paddison
Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.
– Nam June Paik
All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.
– Grace Paley
The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life.
– Grace Paley
Beyond the horizon... a great, creative impulse is at work - the only thing that gives this continent meaning and a guarantee of the future. Every Australian ought to climb up here... and glimpse the various, manifold life of which he is a part.
– Vance Palmer
The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality; by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, their way of life.
– Vance Palmer
The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
– Daniel D. Palmer
I don't understand what people's fascination is with our relationship. If we're in the same city, we go out... Sometimes when I'm in L.A., I stay at Ben Affleck's house. But it's not what people think. We're not together, I swear on my life.
– Gwyneth Paltrow
It really changed my life. When we split up, something changed, permanently, in me. My heart sort of broke that day, and it will never be the same.
– Gwyneth Paltrow
There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.
– Emmeline Pankhurst
A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
– Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
– Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.
– Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
– Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other folks, you are a pretty rich man.
– Seth Parker
If you can organize your kitchen, you can organize your life.
– Louis Parrish
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
– Linus Pauling
The meaning of Life is to become and create our succesors.
– Tim Pease
I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.
– Pele
I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.
– Lucy Van Pelt
Life didn't promise to be wonderful.
– Teddy Pendergrass
Famous is celebrityism and I don't want that. I know that I'm not that. Everybody knows who you are, I can't imagine living that life.
– Robin Wright Penn
Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall of unless you stop pedaling.
– Claude Pepper
Everyone was like 'Oh, you'd be a perfect Frankie, she's a working-class girl, ta da da da da,' and I was like 'I don't get her. She gave up. That's not me. That has never been me.' It took me a minute to figure out who she was. I was like 'Well, how come she doesn't have any joy in her life? How come she gave up?' I had a rough life too, and I didn't give up, and I have joy.
– Rosie Perez
Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
– Persius
We must make working life more human.
– Goran Persson
The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature.
– Wilferd A. Peterson
I figure you get out of life just about what you put into it.
– Lee Petty
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
– Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.
– Trevor Phillips
Her life was like running on a treadmill or riding ona stationary bike; it was aerobic, it was healthy, but she wasn't going anywhere.
– Julia Phillips
My life off the court has changed. I'm feeling good inside, so I guess it shows on the outside too.
– Mary Pierce
Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
– Harold Pinter
A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
– Ann Plato
Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.
– Titus Maccius Plautus
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
– Pliny
Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop.
– Alfred Polgar
Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used by everybody, people of all walks of life. If a building is to meet the needs of all the people, the architect must look for some common ground of understanding and experience.
– John Portman
It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.
– John Portman
I never consciously said, 'I want to be an actor.' It sounds stupid, but it's kind of like being a painter or something. You don't say, 'From today on I'm going to be a painter.' It's not something conscious - you've just been painting pictures all your life.
– Franka Potente
I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
– J. Enoch Powell
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.
– Lawrence Clark Powell
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
– Hugh Prather
To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.
– Munshi Premchand
An orange on the table, your dress on the rug, and you in my bed, sweet present of the present, cool of night, warmth of my life.
– Jacques Prevert
Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
– V. S. Pritchett
You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find - you're never sorry you were kind.
– Herbert V. Prochnow
I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.
– Adelaide Anne Procter
Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.
– Adelaide Anne Procter
Often my creative life has seemed like a long tunnel, dark and damp. And sometimes I wondered whether I could live through it. But I did!
– Ai Qing
There's a moment that comes and I think that it comes for anyone who loves their job and what they do and they've been at it for a while where you realize at an early age, because it's such a gift to realize at an early age what you want to do with your life and know what you want to do.
– Dennis Quaid
He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
– Francis Quarles
Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
– Francis Quarles
The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
– Dan Quayle
Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a limited set of targets.
– Nido Qubein
In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.
– Thomas de Quincey
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
– Anna Quindlen
Sometimes I'm more true when I'm up onstage than I'm able to be in my regular life. It's not as exciting to be at home, but I've got to learn how to make that work, and then I will be an ordinary woman.
– Bonnie Raitt
I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with me.
– Joey Ramone
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
– Ayn Rand
Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.
– Ayn Rand
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
– Ayn Rand
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.
– Ayn Rand
In Jesus' life from the Father, in the immediacy and closeness of his association with him in prayer and indeed face to face, he is God's witness, through whom the intangible has become tangible, the distant has drawn near.
– Joseph Ratzinger
It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence and the manipulation of human life. Islam has also had moments of great splendor and decadence in its history.
– Joseph Ratzinger
It is true that the pill has given rise to an anthropological revolution of great dimensions. It has not been, as thought in the beginning, the only solution for difficult situations. But it has changed the vision of sexuality, the human being and the body itself. Sexuality has been separated from fecundity and in this way it has profoundly changed the concept of the human life.
– Joseph Ratzinger
The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath.
– Joseph Ratzinger
To be the first person baptized with the new water was seen as a significant act of Providence. I have always been filled with thanksgiving for having had my life immersed in this way in the Easter Mystery... the more I reflect on it, the more this seems fitting for the nature of our human life: we are still waiting for Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.
– Joseph Ratzinger
When you are studying theology, your intention is not to learn a trade but to understand the faith, and this presupposes, as we said a while ago, using the words of Augustine, that the faith is true, that, in other words, it opens the door to a correct understanding of your own life, of the world and of men.
– Joseph Ratzinger