Quotes about: life

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.
– Mary Roberts Rinehart
The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
– Hillary Clinton
The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy their second worst enemy is total efficiency.
– Aldous Huxley
The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little.
– Ben Sweetland
The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.
– Betty Buckley
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.
– Stella Adler
The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.
– John Jewel
The wonderful Mozambican people have endured tremendous misery without losing their dignity and their positive outlook on life. Moreover, they have not lost their will to progress and develop. Mozambique is a country where the people never surrendered.
– Henning Mankell
The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
– Horace Walpole
The whole romantic part of my life was a wipeout. I didn't even own a belt.
– Paul Lynde
The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life.
– H. P. Blavatsky
The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.
– David Attenborough
The way to know life is to love many things.
– Vincent van Gogh
The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain life's origin, any more than a study of silicon, copper and plastic will explain how a computer can execute a program.
– Paul Davies
The waltz is a very important part of my life. It's a very important way for me to express my positiveness, bringing humor to the world.
– Andre Rieu
The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.
– Andre Rieu
The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.
– Jose Marti
The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
– Barbara Kingsolver
The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.
– Isaac Bashevis Singer
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
– Ralph Ellison
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
– Muhammad Iqbal
The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.
– Mortimer Adler
The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor.
– George H. W. Bush
The type of leukemia that I am dealing with is treatable. So if I do what my doctors tell me to do - get my blood checked regularly, take my meds and consult with my doctor and follow any additional instructions he might make - I will be able to maintain my good health and live my life with a minimum of disruptions to my lifestyle.
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
The twentieth century has exhibited a barbarism and lack of respect for human life on a massive scale just about unknown before.
– Ron Silver
The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things.
– Chris Christie
The truth sets you free. It's a very liberating thing, when you say this is who I am warts and all and then you can just get on with life. It's amazing.
– Geri Halliwell
The truth is, if anyone saw my home life, I'm pretty sure it would look like other families' around the world. There's a lot of juggling to be done.
– Brooke Burke
The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
– Carly Fiorina
The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
– Eminem
The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
– Arthur C. Brooks
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
– Anatole France
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.
– William Morris
The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God would have me, to turn it over to Him that His will might be worked in my life, to do my work without looking back, to give it all I've got, and to take pride in my work as an honest performer.
– Johnny Cash
The thing you can't let go of is gravity. The reality of gravity in writing. If someone says something really mean in a sitcom, and the next wave isn't a reaction to the reality of that, you start losing relatability. In a lot of romantic comedies, they throw out the rules of life.
– Michael Patrick King
The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature.
– Joni Mitchell
The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My entire life is scheduled from morning to night, and when I'm on vacation, there is no schedule.
– Kelly Clarkson
The surprising thing is that I was not funny in high school. I was always jealous of the funny kids because they always got the girls. I couldn't tell a joke to save my life.
– Seann William Scott
The super power that I would choose would be compassion. Because that's what I think it takes to make it through life-an understanding, a give and take. It saves an awful lot of resentment.
– Craig T. Nelson
The Super Bowl is a game. Life is for real. What I went through helped me get to where I am today. I won't forget. I can't forget. Because a man who forgets his past sometimes loses his soul and forgets where to go in the future.
– Junior Seau
The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.
– Alice James
The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
– Oprah Winfrey
The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and inextricably connected with the human person, and with the innermost nature of human feeling.
– Christopher Alexander
The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.
– Tokugawa Ieyasu
The stories that I want to tell, especially as a director, don't necessarily have a perfect ending because, the older you get, the more you appreciate a good day versus a happy ending. You understand that life continues on the next day the reality of things is what happens tomorrow.
– Drew Barrymore
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
– Aristotle
The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
– Harlan Coben
The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth.
– Ang Lee
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
– Honore de Balzac
The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.
– Alex Lifeson
The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'
– Matthew Macfadyen
The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.
– Rod Parsley
The secret to modern life is finding the measure in time management. I have two kids, career and I travel, and I don't think my life is any different than most couples. The most valuable commodity now for many people is time and how to parcel that out.
– Hugh Jackman
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
– Augusten Burroughs
The secret of life is to have no fear it's the only way to function.
– Stokely Carmichael
The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
– Daniel Dennett
The second album was emotionally exhausting and my life felt like it had become very serious at a very young age.
– Delta Goodrem
The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides.
– Jules Verne
The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
– Gary Bauer
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.
– George Saunders
The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
– E. M. Forster
The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born.
– Sergio Aragones
The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
– Wally Lamb
The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
– Laura Marling
The restriction of religion to private life therefore does not necessarily threaten the vital interests of the majority religion, if there is one, and it protects minority religions from tyranny of the majority.
– Phillip E. Johnson
The relationship between Cathy and Mom in the strip is the one relationship drawn from real life that I have proudly never even tried to disguise.
– Cathy Guisewite
The reason that war is such a fascinating subject for writers is because it's a revealer. Put a bunch of people in an adrenaline-fuelled, life-or-death situation and their fundamental behaviours are exposed, the scrim is taken away and the motivations behind each personality come out to play.
– Sloane Crosley
The reason I exercise is for the quality of life I enjoy.
– Kenneth H. Cooper
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
– Eugene Kennedy
The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.
– Ruth St. Denis
The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
– Gilbert Parker
The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.
– Vince Gill
The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
– James Whistler
The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.
– Billy Tauzin
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
The quality of life is more important than life itself.
– Alexis Carrel
The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.
– Ian Somerhalder
The purpose of human life and the sense of happiness is to give the maximum what the man is able to give.
– Alexander Alekhine
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.
– Albert Schweitzer
The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.
– Mitt Romney
The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.
– Guru Nanak
The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.
– Phillip E. Johnson
The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.
– Fran Tarkenton
The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection.
– Kenneth Scott Latourette
The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life.
– Ernst Mach
The power of the American system of republicanism lies in its capacity to allow religious belief to be a competing, not a controlling, factor in American life.
– Jon Meacham
The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
– Muhammad Iqbal
The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
– Hal Sparks
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
– Jean-Paul Sartre
The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
– Gustav Mahler
The person who has inspired me my whole life is my Mom, because she taught me commitment. She sacrificed.
– Mike Krzyzewski
The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write.
– Melanie Laurent
The people on my mum's side of the family are atheist intellectuals who are ueber-proper. My dad's side of the family are missionaries who are more comfortable sitting around in sweatpants than they are in a five-star restaurant. But those two influences converged in my life.
– Evangeline Lilly
The people at the record company had asked me if I could write a song about my life, my relationship with God, and where I'm from. Well, I can't write a song on purpose, my songs come in a moment of inspiration or desperation.
– Billy Ray Cyrus
The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve.
– Solomon Ortiz
The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.
– A. J. Liebling
The past 6 and a half years have been the most amazing years of my life. It's sad it has come to an end but Avril and I are still family and moving forward in the most positive way possible.
– Deryck Whibley
The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
– Abraham Cahan
The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.
– Paul Davies
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
– Clarence Darrow