Quotes about: life

The packaging for a microwavable microwave dinner is programmed for a shelf life of maybe six months, a cook time of two minutes and a landfill dead-time of centuries.
– David Wann
I think vision is highly overrated today. I think what really blesses a ministry is, if you want the power of God in your life, its humility and integrity. I'll take a person who's humble and has integrity over a person who has vision any day. A lot of people have vision just based on ego, but it's in that dependence upon God that we get His vision and develop more trust in Him.
– Rick Warren
Orson was a beautiful man, he was not only a genius as a director, an actor, a writer but as a person he was bigger than life and I don't mean just in girth. He was a wonderful, wonderful mind and a wonderful disposition.
– Ruth Warrick
Life is a campus: in a Greenwich Village bookstore, looking for a New Yorker collection, I asked of an earnest-looking assistant where I might find the humour section. Peering over her granny glasses, she enquired, 'Humor studies would that be, sir?'
– Keith Waterhouse
Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.
– Naomi Watts
Man is a mixture of good and evil, and he can never be perfected in this life. The notion of his natural goodness is a delusive theory which will blow up any social order that is predicated upon it.
– Richard Weaver
The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else. Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.
– Richard Weaver
After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
– Gary Webb
You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a difference.
– Jimmy Webb
Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal human relations.
– Max Webber
The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.
– Dave Weinbaum
What I hate about those cookery shows is the whole, 'I've got a perfect life because I've got scallops and creme fraiche in the fridge and you're just a fat peasant' idea - because everybody's got fresh ginger in the fridge, you know.
– Arabella Weir
I wrote a thing for myself called A Short History of The Truman Show about how it all came to be, and who Christof was (the obsessive creator and producer of the world-wide broadcast that follows Truman's life). I wrote it as if it were a press release from the show.
– Peter Weir
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.
– Duke of Wellington
This morning this young man does what his time in seminary was preparing him to do, and what for the rest of his life will be the primary activity of his ministry.
– Edgar Wells
If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.
– Kanye West
Nothing in life is promised except death.
– Kanye West
There is no life that does not contribute to history.
– Dorothy West
The problem is that you have a disease, but the disease is abnormal integrity, loyalty to a view of the world that the schizophrenic is willing to stake his life on.
– Carl Whitaker
I was nervous, so I read the New Testament. I read the verse about have no fear, and I felt relaxed. Then I jumped farther than I ever jumped before in my life.
– Willye White
I gave her life, I can take life away.
– Mary Beth Whitehead
My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.
– Kim Wilde
My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shades of evening close Is scattered on the ground - to die.
– Richard Henry Wilde
My country, wounded to the heart, could I but flash along thy soul, electric power to rive apart, the thunder-clouds that round thee roll, and, by my burning words, uplift, thy life from out Death's icy drift, till the full splendors of our age, shone round thee for thy heritage.
– Jane Wilde
Tis midnight, falls the lamp-light dull and sickly, on a pale and anxious crowd, through the court, and round the judges, thronging thickly, with prayers none dare to speak aloud. Two youths, two noble youths, stand prisoners at the bar- You can see them through the gloom- In pride of life and manhood's beauty, there they are awaiting their death doom.
– Jane Wilde
It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
– Laura Ingalls Wilder
Life's only limitations are those you set upon yourself, for as long as you strive hard enough anything is achievable.
– Chad Williams
I was always making up rhymes. But I never thought that poetry would become my life.
– Saul Williams
Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.
– Dar Williams
Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
– Dar Williams
What poison is to food, self-pity is to life.
– Oliver C. Wilson
When you reach the point when the Dilbert cartoons seem exactly to capture your daily experience in corporate life, it is time to move.
– Dave Wilson
I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all.
– Gretchen Wilson
What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and sing.
– Gretchen Wilson
On the whole, audiences prefer that art be not a mirror held up to life, but a Disneyland of the soul, containing Romanceland, Spyland, Pornoland and all the other escape lands which are so much more agreeable than the complex truth.
– Geoffrey Wiseman
It occured to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!
– Alicia Witt
My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
– Beatrice Wood
The Hollywood cinema, dominated by corporations, is now (with even the future of life on the planet in jeopardy) given over to the project of 'not letting people think'.
– Robin Wood
Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?
– George E. Woodberry
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
– Alexander Woolcott
My life has ever been devoted to her service from my youth up, though never before in a cause like this - a cause for which I would most cheerfully risk and lay down my life.
– David Wooster
The real tragedy of life is not in being limited to one talent, but in the failure to use that one talent.
– Edgar W. Work
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life.
– Judith Wright
You are about to begin the hero's journey. Travel well on the quest. A life of More is your birthright. Know the vast resource that reside in you and are provided for you in the world. You have raised the battle cry of There Must Be More Than This.
– Judith Wright
I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again.
– Aileen Wuornos
I've learned that it's everything I ever wanted but never knew I did. It's the best. I know [my son] will have struggles in his life, get hurt or teased. But my dream for him is that he retains the spirit he has right now. It's so beautiful.
– Noah Wyle
We've got goats, chickens, horses, dogs, cats, two emus and five pot-bellied pigs. We just keep collecting these animals. I think when you are named Noah, you are destined for a certain way of life.
– Noah Wyle
I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.
– William Butler Yeats
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
– William Butler Yeats
The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
– William Butler Yeats
There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
– Boris Yeltsin
He it was that first gave to the law the air of a science. He found it a skeleton, and clothed it with life, colour, and complexion; he embraced the cold statue, and by his touch it grew into youth, health, and beauty.
– Barry Yelverton
The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.
– Lu Yen
Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
– Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
– Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.
– Kenko Yoshida
Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.
– Edward Young
Less base the fear of death than fear of life.
– Edward Young
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
– Edward Young
Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life.
– E. J. Young
There are things in your life you can control - and there are variables you can't. The more diligent you are at controlling what you can, the more influence you'll have over your destiny. You just have to figure out which are which.
– Carlton Young
There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.
– Vash Young
The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.
– Arthur Young
As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life.
– Loretta Young
I believe that a life without religion is, truly, an impoverished existence. I believe in the efficacy of prayer and have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith.
– Loretta Young
I can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?
– Loretta Young
I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.
– Loretta Young
My work has brought me into contact with the world's finest designers. I had a lot to learn. I have learned a lot. I found out you can learn a lot about yourself as a person, too-while you're learning how to use fashion in your life.
– Loretta Young
No woman can really tell-sometimes she doesn't even realize-all the things she learns when the man of her life replaces the Prince of her dreams.
– Loretta Young
Sometimes, a woman filled with all sorts of uncertainties in most of the areas of life and emotion, will have her only confidence and independence in her fashion-sense. I'm sure this is a misfortune. Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or character.
– Loretta Young
What you don't know intrigues you more than what you do know. I believed all those love stories-the hero was the hero-because that's what I grew up with. I loved the romance and the roses, but when it came to a more realistic life, I would back away.
– Loretta Young
You get out of fashion what you put into it, just as you do out of life. If you want only its rewards, and reject its disciplines, you're stuck where you start.
– Loretta Young
I had a book, which was stolen, the art of the life of the character, in which you present a whole life in three of four pages. I used that method.
– Marguerite Young
Life has no beginning, middle or end.
– Marguerite Young
One day I bumped into a group of coal miners from the Ozarks, wandering coal miners living a gypsy life... I started to speak with these coal miners, and became very interested in them.
– Marguerite Young
When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbling of reality and you accept it.
– Marguerite Young
You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
– Jack Youngblood
The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!
– Jay Z
Three things are needed for a good life, good friends, good food, and good song.
– Jason Zebehazy
It's hard for other people to realize just how easily we Florentines live with that past in our hearts and minds because it surrounds us in a very real way. To most people, the Renaissance is a few paintings on a gallery wall; to us it is more than an environment - it's an entire culture, a way of life.
– Franco Zeffirelli
Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.
– Richard Zera
I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
– Zig Ziglar
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
– Zig Ziglar
Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the gotta have it scale.
– Zig Ziglar
You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
– Zig Ziglar
Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
– Anonymous
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
– Anonymous
Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results.
– Anonymous
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
– Anonymous
Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.
– Anonymous
You've never lived until you've almost died, for those who fought for it, life has a flavor the protected will never know.
– Anonymous
Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.
– James Baldwin
The man who can but sketch his purpose beforehand in words is regarded as a wonder, and every artist and writer possesses that faculty. But gestation, fruition, the laborious rearing of the offspring, putting it to bed every night full fed with milk, embracing it anew every morning with the inexhaustible affection of a mother's heart, licking it clean, dressing it a hundred times in the richest garb only to be instantly destroyed; then never to be cast down at the convulsions of this headlong life till the living masterpiece is perfected which in sculpture speaks to every eye, in literature to every intellect, in painting to every memory, in music to every heart! --this is the task of execution. The hand must be ready at every moment to work in obedience to the mind.
– Honore de Balzac
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their public monuments or from their domestic relics. Archaeology is to social nature what comparative anatomy is to organized nature. A mosaic reveals an entire society, just as a skeleton of an ichthyosaur suggests an entire creation. Everything is deducible, everything is linked. The cause allows one to guess the effect, just as each effect allows one to reconstruct a cause. The scientist can resuscitate in this manner even the warts of ancient times. From this comes without doubt the prodigious interest that an architectural description can inspire when the writer's fantasy is faithful to its basic elements. Cannot each person reattach it to its past by rigorous deductions? And as for man, does not the past singularly resemble the future? Tell him what was and is this not almost always the same thing as telling him what will be?
– Honore de Balzac
Avoiding the phrase “I don’t have time...”, will soon help you to realize that you do have the time needed for just about anything you choose to accomplish in life.
– Bo Bennett
This life's dim windows of the soul
Distorts the heavens from pole to pole
And leads you to believe a lie
When you see with, not through, the eye.
– William Blake
Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.
– Smiley Blanton
In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn’t worry about death. If you have had a successful life, Lucretius tell us, there’s no reason to mind its end. And, if you haven’t had a good time, “Why do you seek to add more years, which would also pass but ill?”
– Alain de Botton
We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous quality that makes it worth living.
– Randolph Bourne