Quotes about: life

Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.
– A. N. Wilson
Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people.
– John Selden
Obviously, my life and my job in 2010 is very different from Peggy's experience in the 1960s. I exist in a world that enjoys more equality between men and women. But I don't take any of that into my performance. I just want to play the character as who she is as an individual - scene to scene.
– Elizabeth Moss
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children.
– Ron Fournier
Obama does not represent America. Nor does he represent anything what our forefathers stood for. This country is basically built on an attitude. It's a way of life. It's not because you're born here. It's not that you're supposed to take from those who have and give to those who haven't. That kills a country. It killed Russia.
– Luke Scott
O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
– Barry Cornwall
Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers.
– Sarah Zettel
Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.
– Charles Kuralt
Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.
– Michael D. Higgins
Now I'm fighting cancer, everybody knows that. People ask me all the time about how you go through your life and how's your day, and nothing is changed for me.
– Jim Valvano
Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
– Hugh Mackay
Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
– Andrew Bernstein
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
– Angela Carter
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
– Alvar Aalto
Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.
– Jeff Foxworthy
Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.
– Roger Staubach
Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.
– Louis Farrakhan
Not everybody goes to movies to get their life changed.
– Samuel L. Jackson
Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy they heed not our expectancy But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.
– Gerald Massey
Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.
– William Falconer
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.
– Conan O'Brien
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
– Frank Lloyd Wright
No, nothing has changed in my life at all, and nothing would change if I had millions.
– Kinky Friedman
No, like I said, my dad was never really part of the tennis. His involvement around what I did with the tennis and with my mom and my grandparents was really not a part of my life.
– Jimmy Connors
No, I'm happy to go on living the life I've chosen. I'm a university teacher and I like my job.
– Antonio Tabucchi
No, I like to wear as least amount of makeup as I can during my everyday life because I'm just all about keeping my skin healthy and hydrated and I love to laugh and have a great time and smile - that's when I feel the most pretty so I just want to make sure that I stay happy.
– Lily Collins
No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.
– Samuel Goldwyn
No person I have ever met, not even the most righteous or pure of heart, has gone without those times when faith recedes in the busy-ness of life.
– Mitt Romney
No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.
– Horatio Alger
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
– Steve Jobs
No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.
– Bill Murray
No one else can take risks for us, or face our losses on our behalf, or give us self-esteem. No one can spare us from life's slings and arrows, and when death comes, we meet it alone.
– Martha Beck
No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.
– Gary Allan
No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability far more unused than used power.
– James Cash Penney
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
– Jonathan Swift
No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.
– Thomas Huxley
New Orleans, more than many places I know, actually tangibly lives its culture. It's not just a residual of life it's a part of life. Music is at every major milestone of our life: birth, marriage, death. It's our culture.
– Wendell Pierce
New Orleans life is such a night life. The thing that comes up very often is that our day essentially doesn't start until midnight or 2 in the morning.
– Robert Asprin
Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
– Vaclav Klaus
Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
– W. C. Fields
Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.
– Paul Wellstone
Never let life impede on your ability to manifest your dreams. Dig deeper into your dreams and deeper into yourself and believe that anything is possible, and make it happen.
– Corin Nemec
Never build your emotional life on the weaknesses of others.
– George Santayana
Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.
– Eleanor Robson Belmont
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
– C. Wright Mills
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
– Carl Sandburg
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.
– Ivan Turgenev
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
– Henry David Thoreau
Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.
– Godfrey Reggio
My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky either your relationship works or it doesn't.
– Mike Leigh
My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.
– Alice Walker
My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.
– J. C. Watts
My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.
– Christopher Meloni
My whole life sort of ended when my mom died.
– Cheryl Strayed
My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.
– Meghan O'Rourke
My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.
– Steve Wozniak
My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.
– Martin Scorsese
My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
– Halle Berry
My ultimate life dream project is my kids. My family.
– Denzel Washington
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
– Manuel Puig
My stance has always been that there's no place in our sport for drug users. I've always said it's a ban for life if you come up positive. I stand by that.
– Maurice Greene
My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the same street. I feel very special to have these amazing people in my life and if we hadn't all moved into this big house together I think I would have missed out on that, because we would have drifted apart.
– Florence Welch
My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.
– Mindy Kaling
My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.
– Harry Houdini
My pet peeve and my goal in life is to somehow get an adjective for 'integrity' in the dictionary. 'Truthful' doesn't really cover it, or 'genuine.' It should be like 'integritus.'
– Rashida Jones
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.
– Richard Rogers
My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.
– Anne Lamott
My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that.
– Marco Rubio
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal and in that city I spent most of my life.
– Maria Monk
My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'
– Sally Hawkins
My parents had an arranged marriage, as did so many other people when I was growing up. My father came and had a life in the United States one way and my mother had a different one, and I was very aware of those things. I continue to wonder about it, and I will continue to write about it.
– Jhumpa Lahiri
My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.
– Jane Pauley
My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.
– David Oyelowo
My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs.
– Jeffrey Kluger
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
– Benjamin Disraeli
My new life goes beyond my dreams because my dream was Formula One and I achieved it. I'm a driver, I feel like a driver. I have won this race because I am alive.
– Maria de Villota
My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.
– Shania Twain
My mum was very conscious about fashion and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing - just in different weights - light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer.
– Domenico Dolce
My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.
– Alan Cumming
My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.
– Melissa Gilbert
My mother's a psychologist, my stepfather's a psychologist, my stepmother is a therapist and my dad's a lawyer. So it was all prominent in my life. I don't know anyone who doesn't know someone on some form of prescription medicine.
– Zach Braff
My mother was the influence in my life. She was strong she had great faith in the ultimate triumph of justice and hard work. She believed passionately in education.
– John H. Johnson
My mother was one of seven girls whose parents went to bed hungry so their children wouldn't. My father lost his mother when he was nine. He left school and went to work for the next 70 years. They emigrated to America with little more than the hope of a better life.
– Marco Rubio
My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.
– Ian Hislop
My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.
– Twyla Tharp
My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
– Rachael Ray
My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.
– Leonardo DiCaprio
My mom was always pretty supportive. She saw me do plays and she'd always act out the parts I did. My aunt, who played a big part in my life, was a little bit more reserved, because if they don't see you on TV every week they think you must be starving.
– Angela Bassett
My mom was a source of strength.She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.
– Gloria Estefan
My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life.
– Elvis Stojko
My mom was a great cook and great baker all her life.
– Mandy Patinkin
My mom said, 'Don't get married. You're too young. Go out there and experience what life has to offer.' And I did.
– Emmitt Smith
My mom raised us three boys by herself on welfare. It's not worse than anybody else's life.
– Jeffrey Donovan
My mom is very Southern and she in real life says things like, 'If you've got it, flaunt it.'
– Cheryl Hines
My mom is a constant in my life in so many ways.
– Kerri Walsh
My mom can't defend herself to the world. She is such an amazing woman, with such an open heart. It's a real hard line, and I crossed it. I took everyone's life story and assumed it would be a great thing to put on screen. I was being selfish and I feel so horrible about it. I feel so guilty.
– Nikki Reed
My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily I learned English in less than a year.
– Mila Kunis
My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was a very chill life. She didn't expose me to anything that was ahead of my development, but she expected me to adjust to her world - she did not expect to adjust to mine.
– Martha Plimpton
My mom and I have always been very close. She is my best friend. She had to make a lot of sacrifices early on in my life to make sure I got to do what I wanted to do.
– Norah Jones