Quotes about: life

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.
– John McGahern
When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.
– Ang Lee
When I look back over my life it's almost as if there was a plan laid out for me - from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn't afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.
– Jane Goodall
When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.
– Dave Grohl
When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.
– Dee Dee Myers
When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.
– Pete Townshend
When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don't say that to brag, I just want to be an example.
– Big Sean
When I go to movies and I love the movie, it's because it feels like it articulated something about how we're living now, and also gives me some insight into my own life. I feel actually altered after having seen it.
– Josh Radnor
When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I was lucky to be under the care of trained health care personnel. I started wondering then what was happening to women in rural villages.
– Joyce Banda
When I first started acting I was about nine years old. I had never been to audition in my life and my agent sent me out. It was just a commercial for 'Harry Potter.' That was the first thing I ever went out for and I got the 'Harry Potter' commercial which was really cool, but I didn't play Harry Potter.
– Alexander Ludwig
When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.
– Monica Bellucci
When I did 'E.T.,' it sort of solidified the only family I know are these film crews. These gypsies. These filmmakers. That was the solidification and the clicking revelations of 'This is what I want to do with my life and this is where I'm going to survive.'
– Drew Barrymore
When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little.
– Miuccia Prada
When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.
– Whitney Houston
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
– Wayne Dyer
When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.
– Nick Clegg
When families are strong and stable, so are children - showing higher levels of wellbeing and more positive outcomes. But when things go wrong - either through family breakdown or a damaged parental relationship - the impact on a child's later life can be devastating.
– Iain Duncan Smith
When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.
– A. N. Wilson
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
– Muriel Spark
When a mother quarrels with a daughter, she has a double dose of unhappiness hers from the conflict, and empathy with her daughter's from the conflict with her. Throughout her life a mother retains this special need to maintain a good relationship with her daughter.
– Terri Apter
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
– John Wooden
Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
– Orlando Bloom
What's wrong with extreme dieting and hard-core fitness plans is that they don't take into account the rest of your life.
– Alison Sweeney
What's great about TV, and what I love about being on 'Parenthood,' is you have this family. I'm now going on four years of working with the same 100 people, and that helps you feel like your life has more roots. It's more conducive to having a family, and you're staying in town. So that part is amazing.
– Dax Shepard
What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day.
– Paul Feig
What's funny is that the idea of popularity - even the use of the word 'popular' - is something that had been mostly absent from my life since junior high. In fact, the hallmark of life after junior high seemed to be the shedding of popularity as a central concern.
– Susan Orlean
What's different here is that we have now technologies that allow these life science companies to bypass classical breeding. That's what makes it both powerful and exciting.
– Jeremy Rifkin
What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.
– Theodor Herzl
What we call National-Socialism is the poisonous perversion of ideas which have a long history in German intellectual life.
– Thomas Mann
What they're not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes.
– Charlie Sheen
What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.
– Laurie Lee
What people forget is that the most radical thing about Obama is that he was the first black man in history to imagine that he could become president, who was able to make other Americans believe it as well. Other than that, he is a centrist, just like I try to be. He's been bridging divisions his whole life.
– Henry Louis Gates
What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.
– Chaz Bono
What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.
– Al Lewis
What matters is this: Being fearless of failure arms you to break the rules. In doing so, you may change the culture and just possibly, for a moment, change life itself.
– Malcolm Mclaren
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.
– Robert Burton
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
– Shinichi Suzuki
What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.
– Chris Evans
What I've learned is I want to enjoy my life, and food is a big part of it.
– Gwyneth Paltrow
What I've learned in my life, it's a very interesting social study for me, to go back and forth between being the guy at home and being the guy on the road and being the guy in studio and being the guy in the interview. The environment around you has so much to do with your character, and when I'm home, my character really changes quite a bit.
– John Mayer
What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back you have to be a kind of team going through life.
– Tom Petty
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
– Harlan Coben
What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
– Bernard Cornwell
What I love best in life is new starts.
– Karl Lagerfeld
What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.
– Guy Ritchie
What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle-this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.
– Tupac Shakur
What I learned growing up on the farm was a way of life that was centered on hard work, and on faith and on thrift. Those values have stuck with me my whole life.
– Rick Perry
What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.
– Mehmet Oz
What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.
– Erykah Badu
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
– Mark Twain
Well, when you're the youngest of five, parents kind of lose interest more and more through the children. I think my eldest brother was under loads of pressure to do something amazing with his life, but by the time I came around they were like, 'Well, let's hope he doesn't kill a guy.'
– Chris O'Dowd
Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'
– Christopher Hitchens
Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib and the grave, and that is what I am really trying to speak to, this idea that all of life is this life and that there is nothing more than what we see and experience right here on this earth.
– Max Lucado
Well, I think that part of being young is not exactly knowing why you do some of the things that you do. And it's by exploring your life or experimenting or making mistakes and learning from them hopefully that you start to forge an identity.
– Stephen Chbosky
Well, I have a sister that I'm very close with, and that relationship is probably the most intense relationship of my life to date, probably of my life, period.
– Zoe Kazan
Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive.
– Bud Abbott
Well, for me the pro-life issue has been something I've been very passionate about since the '70s, and I have been very involved in the pro-life community since long before politics.
– Mike Huckabee
Well there's nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it's his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have - there are other things in life besides politics.
– Caroline Kennedy
Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.
– Candace Bushnell
Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.
– L. Ron Hubbard
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
– Henry David Thoreau
We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects.
– Laurel Clark
We're all sick of holy wars and bloodshed because religion is supposed to give us life and a better life and is supposed to bring out our best self. When it results in mass destruction and hatred and anxiety, it's the antithesis I think of what religion was designed to do.
– Vera Farmiga
We're all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I've had it a lot better than most people. I've had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life.
– Levon Helm
We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.
– Silvan Shalom
We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.
– Freeman Thomas
We trust something in a grocery store and assume it's good. We don't learn about the most precious thing in life-the food we put in our body. Educate yourself!
– Paul Prudhomme
We talked about many issues, like welfare, is it the way of life or hand up? Talked about size of government, how much should it tax families and small businesses? And when we left that lunch, we got in the car and I looked over at Chuck and said, 'I'll be damned. we're Republicans.'
– Susana Martinez
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
– Henry Ward Beecher
We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.
– Epictetus
We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.
– Matthew Modine
We only live once, but once is enough if we do it right. Live your life with class, dignity, and style so that an exclamation, rather than a question mark signifies it!
– Gary Ryan Blair
We need your help. I need your help. We need money for research. It may not save my life. It may save my children's life. It may save someone you love. And it's very important.
– Jim Valvano
We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.
– Rick Perry
We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.
– Ed Markey
We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
– George A. Smith
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
– Anne Lamott
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
– Joseph Campbell
We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great.
– Lucy Maud Montgomery
We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001.
– Michael Bloomberg
We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
– Anton Chekhov
We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.
– Michael Shermer
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
– Thomas Jefferson
We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.
– Lauren Hutton
We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
– Ronald Reagan
We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
We have a lot to gain through furthering stem cell research, but medical breakthroughs should be fundamentally about saving, not destroying, human life. Therefore, I support stem cell research that does not destroy the embryo.
– Michael Steele
We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
– Todd Akin
We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.
– Novak Djokovic
We had common interests in the beauty of the French language. We both had a tremendous love of jazz. We shared dreams of getting married and having a family, living in the country, leading an idyllic life.
– David Amram
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
– Colin Powell
We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.
– Steve Jobs
We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.
– Sandra Day O'Connor
We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.
– Bob Ehrlich
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
– Carl Jung
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We certainly want those at the top to do well, but if you base your entire presidency and your entire economic platform on helping them do even better, you're missing what makes the economy tick. Because not everyone has been as fortunate as Mitt Romney, you cannot base your whole approach on a life experience as rarified as his.
– Charles Schumer
We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.
– Ernest Istook
We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.
– A. J. Muste