Quotes about: life

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.
– Bill Forsyth
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
– Joseph Conrad
Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
– Aldous Huxley
People with no humor, they're outta my life.
– Patti LaBelle
People with high blood pressure, diabetes - those are conditions brought about by life style. If you change the life style, those conditions will leave.
– Dick Gregory
People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul.
– Phil Spector
People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life.
– Carrie-Anne Moss
People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down.
– James Taylor
People say funny things all the time during really serious moments in life.
– Mark Ruffalo
People often pulled into Scientology want to address personal problems in their life, and Scientology says we have technology that addresses these kinds of problems. Just focusing on the problems and trying to remedy them can be helpful.
– Lawrence Wright
People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.
– Andy Warhol
People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.
– Whitfield Diffie
People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.
– Thomas Jane
People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.
– Willie Stargell
People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.
– Arlen Specter
People have called me Superman my whole life. In various sports, that seems to be the common theme. My favorite superhero is actually the Incredible Hulk. He's the only superhero that can't die.
– Robert Griffin III
People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone who cheats has a lower moral standard than someone who does not. And they will cheat in other areas of life as well.
– Carl Lewis
People find themselves in ruts all the time. You're in a complacent lifestyle where you work 9 to 5 and then you add a mortgage and kids. You feel trapped, but guess what, brother? You constructed that life. If you're OK with it, there's nothing wrong with that. But if you've got unease, then you've got to make a change.
– Jeremy Renner
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
– Orlando Bloom
People close to me called me 'Curry in a Hurry.' I was moving through life at 100 miles an hour trying to further my career and be a great mom and make everyone happy.
– Ann Curry
People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.
– Jennifer Lopez
People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
– Salman Khan
People are funny, and in the most tragic situations, when comedy erupts from nowhere, it can turn on its head within the space of a second or a minute. You're laughing one minute and you're crying the next and that's just life for me, and that is what people are like.
– Sally Hawkins
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
– Herbert Spencer
People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask.
– David Byrne
People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.
– Katy Perry
People always ask me if I could live in any other era what would it be, and I tell them none! I feel so lucky to live in an age where technology has changed and continues to change and make life so much more exciting. It keeps everyone young and constantly learning new things.
– Nina Garcia
Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
– Frederick Buechner
Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them.
– Ron Chernow
Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.
– Richard Leakey
Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.
– Edward Hopper
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
– John Patrick
Over the last couple of years, I've really worked toward balancing my life out more, having a little bit more time with friends, family and my boyfriend. There was a period of time when they were way down the list. It was all about music and touring and if everything fell by the wayside, so be it.
– Alanis Morissette
Over the eons I've been a fan of, and sucker for, each latest automated system to 'simplify' and 'bring order to' my life. Very early on this led me to the beautiful-and-doomed Lotus Agenda for my DOS computers, and Actioneer for the early Palm.
– James Fallows
Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy our existence challenges its life.
– Charlotte Bunch
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
– Dennis Prager
Our science fails to recognize those special properties of life that make it fundamental to material reality. This view of the world - biocentrism - revolves around the way a subjective experience, which we call consciousness, relates to a physical process. It is a vast mystery and one that I have pursued my entire life.
– Robert Lanza
Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.
– Sissy Spacek
Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
– Leonard Boswell
Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.
– Robert Casey
Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
– Wade Boggs
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
– Soren Kierkegaard
Our life dreams the Utopia. Our death achieves the Ideal.
– Victor Hugo
Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped.
– Charles Stanley
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
– Thomas Jefferson
Our family life was certainly not intellectual.
– Douglass North
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion.
– Ruth St. Denis
Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.
– Joseph Campbell
Opponents of capital punishment argue that the state has no right to take a murderer's life. Apparently, one fact that abolitionists forget or overlook is that the state is acting not only on behalf of society, but also on behalf of the murdered person and the murdered person's family.
– Dennis Prager
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
– Bob Marley
Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.
– Daniel Libeskind
Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
– Karl Jaspers
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
– Stefan Zweig
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
– Oscar Wilde
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.
– William Feather
One thing I was thinking about is that they probably get their come-uppance about the same percentage that people in real life do. Basically, stealing for all practical purposes might as well be legal in New York.
– Mike Judge
One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment.
– Chris Christie
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
– Meister Eckhart
One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.
– Julius Erving
One of the things I've started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there's a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it - if that makes any sort of sense.
– Jennifer Carpenter
One of the things I really love about TV is this symbiotic relationship you can get between the writers and the actors, and the characters start to come to life because you start to collaborate.
– Carla Gugino
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.
– Lewis Carroll
One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.
– Hugh Laurie
One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.
– Julius Erving
One of the most important things that I did to turn my life around was to realize and to accept that from this minute, that's all we have. Everything that happened behind us we cannot change so you might as well look to the future.
– Nick Carter
One of the most important responsibilities in the Christian life is to care about others, smile at them, and be a friend to the friendless.
– James Dobson
One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.
– Gene Robinson
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
– Ben Okri
One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.
– Andre Dubus III
One of my dreams in life is to do fund-raising for the youth.
– Picabo Street
One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.
– Gustave Flaubert
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
– E. M. Forster
One makes mistakes that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.
– Romain Rolland
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
– Joan of Arc
One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.
– Jean-Paul Sartre
One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
– Sir Walter Scott
Once you're in the game and it's a part of your life, you never want to leave it. But you have to be committed to be able to travel and do the things you need to do to be successful in whatever role you're doing.
– Joe Sakic
Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.
– Billy Connolly
Once it gets to a point where it becomes a matter of life and death to occupy a position of leadership or not, with an eye on future opportunities, therein lies the danger.
– Kgalema Motlanthe
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world.
– Nina Simone
On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.
– Martin Sheen
On the publicity tour of 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,' I was asked over and over again, if, as the writer, I felt it was a fair depiction of real life to have someone of my er, below average looks, hook up with hottie John Corbett.
– Nia Vardalos
On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.
– Richard Serra
On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on.
– Madonna Ciccone
On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.
– Naomi Watts
On one level, nothing's really changed in my life. I still drive my daughter in the car pool on Monday. But it's impossible not to be aware of this rush of attention it's impossible not to be seduced by it once you've entered into it, seduced by being unhappy when the attention wanes.
– Michael Tolkin
On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.
– Jimmy Carter
On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.
– Emile Hirsch
Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.
– Oksana Baiul
Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
Okay, so, sometimes in life, I can be a score-keeper - someone who keeps track of what he gives and what he gets in return. An annoying quality, to say the least, and I'm sure my wife has your sympathy, but it's made me highly attuned to when and where credit is due.
– Mark Feuerstein
OK, so my parents were married in 1955 and my mom knew my dad was gay and my dad knew he was gay and so I was, like, 'Why in the heck did you get married?' Like, what was going on? What was that time? It's like this crazy paradox that my whole life is based on, or my family's based on. So I spent a lot of time trying to understand '55.
– Mike Mills
Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.
– Kyle Chandler
Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it.
– Lafcadio Hearn
Of course, the plea for respect for nonhuman life goes far beyond the scientific delight of familiarity with our planet mates. The nonhuman forms of life with which we 6,000 million talking, upright apes share this finite planet are directly or indirectly connected to our well-being.
– Lynn Margulis
Of course, I'm older now. I'm in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for 'Car Wheels' or 'Essence' or whatever. Different things were going on.
– Lucinda Williams
Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.
– Joan Collins