Quotes about: life

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
– Shania Twain
A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music.
– Conway Twitty
You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.
– Conway Twitty
Love what I do and I have no regrets, but the people I care about are by far the most important thing. I would kill for them. They make my life worth living.
– Liv Tyler
Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again.
– Alex Tan
The person who has not learned to be happy and content while completely alone for an hour a day, or a week has missed life's greatest serenity.
– H. Clay Tate
When I wanted to do this job it was for making movies not for the glitter. Of course with the fame I got more offers from different countries so it is great to have huge luxuries for an actor to work and to have the choice. But after, in life, I can't enjoy anonymity. But I can hide myself.
– Audrey Tautou
There are two rules in life: Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: Everything is small stuff.
– Finn Taylor
It moves me when anybody is just wandering through life, sleepwalking, and then wakes up. It's like the caterpillar to butterfly thing - the chrysalis. It's just so moving because they're not going to go to their grave with a slipping down life.
– Lili Taylor
Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.
– Edwin Way Teale
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
– Thales
It's never too late-in fiction or in life-torevise.
– Nancy Thayer
We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.
– Theophrastus
If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.
– Charlize Theron
The public has invested in this story. It participates, it judges, it condemns, it pities. It's a second life for a lot of people.
– Roger Therond
I remember those happy days and often wish I could speak into the ears of the dead the gratitude which was due to them in life and so ill-returned.
– Gwyn Thomas
I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.
– Marlo Thomas
It's sometimes distractingto see a group of girls staring and giggling. You are a part of their life, and there is a lot that is owed them. But it's difficult because you want to make eveyone happy. If you try to do that, you're setting yourself up for failure.
– Jonathan Taylor Thomas
That's what I like about acting: You get to live out these fantasies, and then you go home at night to your normal life, go back to just being Jon.
– Jonathan Taylor Thomas
I have a nervous breakdown in the film and in one scene I get to stand at the top of the stairs waving an empty sherry bottle which is, of course, a typical scene from my daily life, so isn't much of a stretch.
– Emma Thompson
Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.
– Andrea Thompson
I spent 20 years feeling that there was something that should be happening in my life, and accepting that it would do so when the time was right.
– Charles Thomson
Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous achievement, they just didn't do one thing-like the architect who didn't build St Paul's. I didn't quite build St Paul's, but I stood on more mountaintops than possibly I deserved.
– Lord Thorneycroft
Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his friends for his life.
– Jeremy Thorpe
Here was a monument, in fieldstone, to the art of family life.
– Judith Thurman
I did not risk my life on the beaches of Normandy to come back to this country and sit idly by while a bunch of hack politicians whittles away your heritage and mine.
– Strom Thurmond
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
– Ludwig Tieck
Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the court I feel like Anna Pavlova. Or like Adelina Patti. Or even like Sarah Bernhardt. I see the footlights in front of me. I hear the whisperings of the audience. I feel an icy shudder. Win or die! Now or never! It's the crisis of my life.
– Bill Tilden
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
– Jean Toomer
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
– Paul Tournier
It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means: helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.
– Paul Tournier
Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
– Paul Tournier
Sirs, I have tested your machine [a gramophone]. It adds a new terror to life and makes death a long-felt want.
– Herbert Beerbohm Tree
My life would be in danger if I return to Mexico.
– Gloria Trevi
A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
– D. Elton Trueblood
Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around misunderstandings.
– Francois Truffaut
For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
– Barbara Tuchman
I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.
– Tina Turner
American democracy was born of no theorist's dream; it was not carried in the Susan Constant to Virginia, nor in the Mayflower to Plymouth. It came stark and strong and full of life out of the American forest, and it gained new strength each time it touched a new frontier.
– Frederick Jackson Turner
To laugh with others is one of life's great pleasures. To be laughed at by others is one of life's great hurts.
– Frank Tyger
Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
– Steven Tyler
Life's a journey, not a destination.
– Steven Tyler
I take the most wrenchingly painful moments of my life, brush them off and present them for the amusement of others. Luckily for me, my childhood was torture.
– Aisha Tyler
If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy who drives the plough to know more of the scriptures than you do.
– William Tyndale
Life is a wave, which in no two consecutive moments of its existence is composed of the same particles.
– John Tyndall
Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants.
– Stewart L. Udall
The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.
– Stewart L. Udall
All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.
– Morihei Ueshiba
All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties creation together.
– Morihei Ueshiba
All things, material and spiritual, originate from one source and are related as if they were one family. The past, present, and future are all contained in the life force. The universe emerged and developed from one source, and we evolved through the optimal process of unification and harmonization.
– Morihei Ueshiba
Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.
– Morihei Ueshiba
When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.
– Morihei Ueshiba
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.
– Miguel de Unamuno
Science says: We must live, and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable, wisdom says: We must die, and seeks how to make us die well.
– Miguel de Unamuno
Every race I run in is in preparation for the Indianapolis 500. Indy is the most important thing in my life. It is what I live for.
– Al Unser
She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry.
– Louis Untermeyer
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.
– John Updike
Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
– John Updike
The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.
– John Updike
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
– Ludwig van Beethoven
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
– Henry Van Dyke
Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
– Henry Van Dyke
I thank God for the honesty and virility of Jesus religion which makes us face the facts and calls us to take a man's part in the real battle of life.
– Henry Van Dyke
There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.
– Henry Van Dyke
As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
– Vincent van Gogh
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
– Vincent van Gogh
A man should control his life. Mine is controlling me.
– Rudolph Valentino
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
– Raoul Vaneigem
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
– Raoul Vaneigem
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
– Raoul Vaneigem
People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
– Raoul Vaneigem
I have this theory of life that there are four popular people in high school and then there are the rest of us. I write movies for the rest of us who never peaked in high school. For the people that did peak in high school and then realized later that it's all downhill, welcome to the movie as well.
– Nia Vardalos
You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way.
– Nia Vardalos
For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life.
– Marcus Terentius Varro
In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
– Bill Vaughan
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
– Bill Vaughan
Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
– Bill Vaughn
I'm into the Play Station now and I just got the Super Nintendo. I like the sports a lot, like hockey and football. I recently got into these solve-a-mystery games. They're like a bad drug. They just chuck two weeks out of your life.
– Vince Vaughn
The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
– Vince Vaughn
There's a greater law than the FDA, and that is an obligation of a doctor to try to do anything he can to save a life when he thinks that there's a chance.
– Cecil Vaughn
The conscience of the dying belies their life.
– Luc de Clapier de Vauvanargues
I had to focus on some personal areas in my life with the little bit of privacy that I have.
– Mario Vazquez
In all honesty, I'm not able to talk about contracts. It's nothing with 'American Idol' in particular, it's just things I really need to take care of in my life.
– Mario Vazquez
In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.
– Thorstein Veblen
Seriously, teen movies are great. It's work. And it's fun. But I want a real movie. About a real life situation.
– Alexa Vega
I was elated by my success in my work, but shattered over my mother's death, and miserable about the way my marriage seemed to be foundering. And one day when my wife was away, I walked out of the house, and out of her life, trying to escape from something I could put no name to.
– Conrad Veidt
So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning.
– Conrad Veidt
The one thing I look for everywhere is beauty. I find it everywhere, and in almost every person. A lovely painting, a good book, or music moves me. It has a life of its own. But I get just as satisfying a thrill when I look at streets wet with rain or see a typist's quick fingers traveling with precision over her keyboard.
– Conrad Veidt
So be encouraged and dedicate yourself to your dream and if your dream should come my way one day then we will dance upon the boards of life.
– Ben Vereen
Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.
– Ben Vereen
Where do you find the strength to brave a barrage of enemy fire and to bring your wounded friends to safety at great risk to your own life? Conviction.
– Guy Verhofstadt
As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.
– Jones Very
The main action of all such minds must evidently be as independent of the will as is the life in a plant or a tree; and, as they are but different results of the same great vital energy in nature, we cannot but feel that the works of genius are as much a growth as are the productions of the material world.
– Jones Very
The stream of life, - which, in other men, obstructed and at last stationary as the objects that surround it, seems scarcely to deserve the name,- in them rolls ever onward its rich and life-giving waters as if unconscious of the beautiful banks it has overflowed with fertility.
– Jones Very
With other writers, at our very first acquaintance with their thoughts, we recognise our relationship with the swiftness of intuition; but who of us, however familiar he may have been with his writings, has yet caught a glance of Shakspeare's self, so that he could in any way identify himself with him, and feel himself a sharer in his joys and sorrows, his motives and his life?
– Jones Very
We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
– Gore Vidal
What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.
– Alfred Victor Vigny
Death gives life its fullest reality.
– Anthony Dalla Villa
Contact with a high-minded woman is good for the life of any man.
– Henry Vincent
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
– Leonardo da Vinci