Quotes about: life

I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life.
– Robert Capa
I hope to make acting my career for the rest of my life, if I can.
– Chloe Moretz
I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65, you've got to make a statement with your life. Otherwise, you are just existing.
– George Foreman
I hope to be scaring children for the rest of my life.
– Tom Felton
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.
– Queen Elizabeth II
I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'
– Chelsea Clinton
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
– Jack Kerouac
I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.
– Joshua Lederberg
I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story.
– Elvis Presley
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
– Igor Stravinsky
I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.
– Kevin Costner
I have written a memoir here and there, and that takes its own form of selfishness and courage. However, generally speaking, I have no interest in writing about my own life or intruding in the privacy of those around me.
– Peter Carey
I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
– Hilaire Belloc
I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.
– Pamela Anderson
I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
– Patricia Heaton
I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
– Tallulah Bankhead
I have those songs as well. It depends on what I'm going through in my life but I'm a huge fan of Bjork. Sometimes I get so emotional because she's so amazing.
– Ashlee Simpson
I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.
– Christian Bale
I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life.
– Rachael Ray
I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
– King Abdullah II
I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.
– Wislawa Szymborska
I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.
– Pete Seeger
I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.
– Mindy Kaling
I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion.
– Puff Daddy
I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.
– Tom Welling
I have shared my whole life. My private and my show business life. It helps me actually to feel my songs and to go on with my dreams.
– Celine Dion
I have respect for what other people believe. What I believe in my own life is that it's a search for how I can do things better, whether it's being a better man or a better father or finding ways for myself to improve.
– Tom Cruise
I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me.
– Susan Smith
I have one friend that I've had since I was born, and she's from Coatzacoalcos. She's not really impressed or interested in the actor's life. My family isn't really either.
– Salma Hayek
I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.
– Steve Irwin
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
– Jackson Pollock
I have no fear of death. More important, I don't fear life.
– Steven Seagal
I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.
– William Allen White
I have my ethics and morals. I have my anchor point of what is right and wrong in real life, but I'm not afraid to entertain any and every aspect of personality in relationship to creating a character.
– Corin Nemec
I have loved movies as the number one thing in my life so long that I can't ever remember a time when I didn't.
– Quentin Tarantino
I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable.
– Eugene Forsey
I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren't. I've opted for the road of happiness and long life.
– Ethan Suplee
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
– Queen Elizabeth II
I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away.
– Mary Beth Whitehead
I have great friends around me that are positive and I think that's the key to life is making your own path. Set your own rules because there is no set rule, there is no set look, there is no set anything. You make your own rules in your life. You make your own decisions.
– Amber Riley
I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy.
– Marie Curie
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
– Arthur Rubinstein
I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.
– Emma Watson
I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.
– Patty Duke
I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.
– Robert W. Service
I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.
– Dave Attell
I have amazing people around me. I couldn't be in a better place. I'm grateful for my life and where I'm at. I never thought I could be in the position that I'm in.
– Ashlee Simpson
I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.
– Amy Sedaris
I have always made my own rules, in poetry as in life - though I have tried of late to cooperate more with my family. I do, however, believe that without order or pattern poetry is useless.
– Anne Stevenson
I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
– Wallis Simpson
I have always had good strength in my legs from working out with weights. I have also been riding a bike of some sort for most of my life and have good agility.
– Mark-Paul Gosselaar
I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.
– Robert Cormier
I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.
– Richard Nelson Bolles
I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
– Erica Jong
I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.
– Antony Sher
I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.
– Paula Poundstone
I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies.
– Meryl Streep
I have a responsibility to nurture and shepherd my talent and when I'm living the parts of my life not related to that I feel I have the right to be left alone.
– Ashley Judd
I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.
– Jerry Lewis
I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it.
– Eric Stoltz
I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
– Oprah Winfrey
I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?
– Clyde Tombaugh
I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day.
– Elton John
I have a lot of amazing women, you know, women in my life who have been an example for me of what not to do.
– Jennifer Aniston
I have a life that I enjoy I try and value the things that I think are worth valuing and everything else is icing. You know, it is a kick to go down the red carpet in that dress and then you go back home.
– Jewel Kilcher
I have a kind of boring personal life, to the paparazzi anyway, and I don't hang with the cool crowd.
– Diane Kruger
I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.
– Nicholas Sparks
I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.
– Steve Jobs
I have a great family, I live an amazing life.
– John Oates
I have a full life: I have two amazing kids, I have great friends, great family. And right now, that's plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work.
– Sarah McLachlan
I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.
– Paul Thomas Anderson
I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.
– Paul McCartney
I hate movies that tell people what to think. I'm proud that Democrats thought 'Thank You For Smoking' was their film and Republicans thought it was theirs. I'm proud that pro-choice people thought 'Juno' was their film and pro-life people thought it was theirs.
– Jason Reitman
I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.
– Lucille Ball
I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.
– Ben Barnes
I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience.
– Cathy Guisewite
I had people in my life who didn't give up on me: my mother, my aunt, my science teacher. I had one-on-one speech therapy. I had a nanny who spent all day playing turn-taking games with me.
– Temple Grandin
I had only two offers of marriage in my life, and I refused both.
– Catherine Helen Spence
I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.
– O. J. Simpson
I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.
– Susan Smith
I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life.
– Tina Yothers
I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.
– Albert Brooks
I had a little insight into life that most kids probably didn't have. My mother was a schoolteacher, and my father was a social worker. Through his eyes I saw the underside of society.
– Charles Kuralt
I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.
– LeRoy Neiman
I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, but if you become a doctor, that's your specialty in life and you are defined by it. One of the attractions of being a writer is that you're never a specialist. Your field is entirely open your field is the entire human condition.
– Graham Swift
I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular.
– Alexander Payne
I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
– Candice Bergen
I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.
– Marilyn Monroe
I guess I feel that I was following my instincts, and at the same time being guided by the best. I became totally intrigued with Louisiana - the people, the food. It is a part of my life. Everything that has happened for me since moving here has just been icing on the cake.
– Emeril Lagasse
I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.
– Dave Mustaine
I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.
– Emma Roberts
I grew up in a food-obsessed Italian family, so food was always front and center in my life. I was a food obsessed person who morphed into a comedian and tried to figure out a way to make fun of my cake and eat it too.
– Nadia Giosia
I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don't think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life.
– Bradley Whitford
I got stuck up a tree when I was about seven, and my dad had to come and get the ladder to get me down. I loved to climb all the way up to the top. I must have been a koala in my past life.
– Miranda Kerr
I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
– Victoria Jackson
I go home and don't get treated any differently. People have known me all my life and are interested and very supportive but because they have known me forever I don't get any diva treatment. My mum still tells me off if I haven't loaded the dishwasher for her.
– Katherine Jenkins
I get to do the most amazing things. We call it Host in Peril quite often, because people love to see me risk my life or be in danger.
– Rick Mercer
I get half a million just to show up at parties. My life is, like, really, really fun.
– Paris Hilton