Quotes about: life

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
– David Sarnoff
We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
– Lauryn Hill
We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise.
– LeVar Burton
We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life, or you can focus on what's right.
– Marianne Williamson
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
We can all agree that no American should lose their life savings or their home because of illness or injury and that the rising cost of health care severely burdens individuals, families and businesses.
– Judd Gregg
We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.
– Anne Hathaway
We are supposed to enjoy the good stuff now, while we can, with the people we love. Life has a funny way of teaching us that lesson over and over again.
– Sheena Easton
We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.
– Franz Kafka
We are pre-disposed for fantasy, there is a natural impulse for human beings to want to get off their heads or out of their heads in something in a substance or a drink or an idea or a religion which will comfort them and make life exciting.
– Tom Baker
We are involved in a life that passes understanding and our highest business is our daily life.
– John Cage
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
– Sir William Osler
We are all born with a unique genetic blueprint, which lays out the basic characteristics of our personality as well as our physical health and appearance... And yet, we all know that life experiences do change us.
– Joan D. Vinge
We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.
– Bill Hicks
We all know how funny Morrissey is. Actually, you know what? I say that sarcastically. His songs are some of the funniest songs I've ever heard in my life. I mean, really. I mean, not that the 'Girlfriend in a Coma' is, like, really funny.
– Zach Galifianakis
We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage.
– Jack Bruce
We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.
– Louisa May Alcott
Waterpolo is my life. Our relationship is that of predetermination I'll never be better at anything than waterpolo and that is why it is my duty to pursue this sport as long as I can, and to the best of my abilities.
– Tibor Benedek
War, famine, poverty and oppression of the workers will continue while woman makes life cheap. They will cease only when she limits her reproductivity and human life is no longer a thing to be wasted.
– Margaret Sanger
War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.
– Henry Rollins
Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.
– Neal Boortz
Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.
– Emmitt Smith
Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.
– Jane Smiley
Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other, but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.
– Martin Scorsese
Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.
– William Cowper
Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
– Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.
– John Cusack
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
– Mark Strand
Use plants to bring life.
– Douglas Wilson
Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.
– Edward Said
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self.
– B. R. Ambedkar
Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly.
– Andrew Shue
Ultimately, it's possible that social media platforms will be designed as templates that the users themselves customize in terms of the best way to express their community and experience of life, and brands will have to simply follow suit.
– Simon Mainwaring
Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?
– Michelle Pfeiffer
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.
– Dan Savage
Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple.
– Cheryl Ladd
Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals.
– Holly Madison
Truth is life's most precious commodity.
– Edwin Louis Cole
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
– Khalil Gibran
Trust me, I have never written a speech in my life, and if I have my way, I never will.
– Curt Schilling
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
– Stephen Covey
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
– Socrates
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.
– Baltasar Gracian
True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us of our material life, our values make possible our spiritual life.
– Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
– Alexander Smith
Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.
– Christopher McCandless
Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.
– Tom Cochrane
Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
– Francesca Annis
Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.
– Tom Brady
Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
– John Betjeman
Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.
– John Wayne
Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution 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.
– Jim Ryun
Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.
– Karen Armstrong
Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
– Dale Carnegie
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.
– Kevyn Aucoin
To this day I don't ever remember seeing a pet inside Moscow, I never saw anyone carrying a dog, or leading a dog. Err I finally saw a, a pet some years later in Kiev, so I thought that life must have been, different.
– Ralph Boston
To summarize, the particular song a male sings, and the behavioral responses of females to song and morphological signals, are not genetically inherited in a fixed manner but are determined by learning early in life.
– Peter R. Grant
To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
– Reba McEntire
To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation.
– George H. Mead
To show the world what long experience gains, requires not courage, though it calls for pains but at life's outset to inform mankind is a bold effort of a valiant mind.
– George Crabbe
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
– Wallace Stevens
To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.
– Luigi Barzini
To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.
– Christina Ricci
To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, 'My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?'
– Anna Kendrick
To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.
– Mike Mills
To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.
– Joss Stone
To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.
– Jerry Seinfeld
To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.
– James Buchan
To live your life well, and have respect for what came before or after - there's a strong respect for that in African culture.
– Anna Deavere Smith
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.
– Joseph Chilton Pearce
To know nothing is the happiest life.
– Desiderius Erasmus
To have dominion by religion, is to have dominion over men's souls, thus over their very spiritual life, and to use the Divine things, which are in their religion, as the means.
– Emanuel Swedenborg
To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future.
– Neil Peart
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
– Bertrand Russell
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
– Flannery O'Connor
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
– William James
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
– Walter Pater
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.
– Maria Sharapova
To be fair, lying is part and parcel of public life. Every politician has lied about something because they are owned by the special interest groups that finance their elections.
– Peter Schuyler
To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life.
– Sir Thomas More
To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long.
– Marlene Dietrich
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
– Khalil Gibran
To a billion people around the world surviving on just a dollar a day, the question of what to eat tonight is more about life and death than about recipes. The struggle of poor people around the globe weighs heavily on me, especially now that I am a mother, which is why I work with Oxfam.
– Giada De Laurentiis
Thug Life to me is dead.
– Tupac Shakur
Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
– Anais Nin
Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.
– Steve Martin
Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.
– Warren Farrell
Throughout my life, my mom has been the person that I've always looked up to.
– Mike Krzyzewski
Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.
– Will Smith
Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.
– Michael Shermer
Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody.
– Trent Reznor
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
– Sophocles
This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God.
– William Law
This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home.
– Jim Capaldi
This may sound strange but I had dreams as a kid of doing exactly what I ended up doing in my life.
– Corey Hart
This life is a process of learning.
– Lauryn Hill
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
– Charles Baudelaire
This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don't get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life.
– Lindsay Lohan
This is the strangest life I've ever known.
– Jim Morrison