Quotes about: life

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.
– Sidney Poitier
I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.
– Jack White
I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.
– Scott Turow
I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
– Marat Safin
I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.
– Ayrton Senna
I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages.
– Tony Campolo
I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?
– Mayer Hawthorne
I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.
– Sidney Poitier
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
– Victoria Woodhull
I certainly don't think you need to be famous to want to leave a legacy, but when you are famous, it's even more likely that your child will get the wrong perspective on your life if you die prematurely.
– Shania Twain
I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.
– Valerie Jarrett
I cannot stress enough that the answer to life's questions is often in people's faces. Try putting your iPhones down once in a while, and look in people's faces. People's faces will tell you amazing things. Like if they are angry, or nauseous or asleep.
– Amy Poehler
I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.
– Wislawa Szymborska
I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other - and we still are.
– Richard Branson
I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.
– Charles R. Swindoll
I can't talk about foreign policy like anyone who's spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, it's very important that I participate in that.
– Ron Silver
I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.
– Dolly Parton
I can't say that I've changed anybody's life, ever, and that's the real work of the world, if you want a better society.
– Charles Kuralt
I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.
– Sting
I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.
– Greg Kinnear
I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.
– Emmanuelle Beart
I can't do the same movies all my life. I'm conscious of that. But it's a trade-off. 'Dear John' allowed me to do movies I've wanted to do. You learn to balance it out. I'm still learning. Only now am I getting to do the kinds of movies that I have wanted to do. So it's a steady climb. You don't jump into a Soderbergh film.
– Channing Tatum
I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.
– Mos Def
I can't believe it's been four years now, and from watching that pilot, we really all looked like babies. It's unbelievable just how far everything has come. I'm happier now than I've ever been on the show and in my life. I really owe so much of my happiness to 'Glee.'
– Lea Michele
I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.
– Vincent van Gogh
I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.
– Peter Singer
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
– Jerome K. Jerome
I can safely say that other than macaroni and cheese, there's no processed food in my life. There's no inorganic food in my life these days. There's no junk food. There's not a lot of sugar. There's no soy. I mean, really everything that's going into my body is pretty pure.
– Ginnifer Goodwin
I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'
– Kristen Wiig
I can only hope to be 10 percent of the mom mine was to me. She encouraged me to be confident and enjoy life. That's what I want for my son.
– Charlize Theron
I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.
– Major Taylor
I can find some way to make poetry out of my life's experiences.
– Shelby Lynne
I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.
– Alice Walker
I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.
– Julius Erving
I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for.
– Scott Brooks
I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.
– Jimmy Carter
I believe that there is some spiritual entity that's greater than us. I do not belong to any specific organized religion. I have always believed that, and I believe it even more so now. I believe that someone was listening to me, and someone is giving me an incredibly blessed life.
– Jane Seymour
I believe that the majority of times the scale tilts toward the good. It's this amazing thing that rolls on and if we get in the flow of it, that's God. And if we fight it, if we swim the other way, we're swimming away from the purest expression of this life.
– Michael J. Fox
I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
– Charles Spurgeon
I believe that no matter what you do in life, if you learn the basics through theater, it will help you in everything else - problem solving, communication, discipline, all of that stuff.
– Laura Linney
I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
– Ron White
I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.
– Juliette Binoche
I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.
– Howard Schultz
I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics in life in spirituality in business just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.
– Zachary Levi
I began learning the sportswriting business very early in life.
– Dick Schaap
I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.
– Cat Stevens
I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal,' the 'New York Times,' constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image.
– Barbara Corcoran
I bear a charmed life.
– William Shakespeare
I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.
– Jonah Hill
I appreciate the 'Surreal Life.' I had a really positive experience on that show, and with those people. I found some love in my heart for religion again, and had the support of a new family of friends. I wouldn't have had the pleasure of meeting those people, if we were not all placed in that fishbowl.
– Vince Neil
I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.
– Elliott Erwitt
I am what I am, I'm doing very well in my life, and I'm thankful to God for that.
– LL Cool J
I am very rich because of 'Chic' - artistically as well as spiritually. It's been an amazing life.
– Nile Rodgers
I am very old-fashioned about marriage. It is for life and I mean it. I always knew that when I met the right girl, the life I had before - being single, in a band, girls everywhere - would be over.
– Gary Numan
I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends' mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were not women at all but gay men. I have loved them my entire life, even after their passing.
– Anne Lamott
I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
– Jesus Christ
I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I've got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I've got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.
– James Ellroy
I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.
– Pierre Loti
I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.
– Jerry Lewis
I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at large - especially this world, so brutal and unjust. I cannot make these wrenching personal life and death decisions for others - nor do I believe they should be made by a church run by childless men.
– Julianna Baggott
I am not systematic at all when it comes to religion. I just love life. And I'm not judgmental. And I'm a vegetarian.
– Erykah Badu
I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.
– Carlos Fuentes
I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.
– Elena Anaya
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
– Emile Zola
I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
– Oriana Fallaci
I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.
– Ron Paul
I am intrigued by inanimate objects. They're a piece of history, someone's statement and ideas of life.
– Mike Mills
I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.
– Lillie Langtry
I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
– Kanye West
I am for a clear distinction between public and private life. I believe private matters should be regulated in private and I have asked those close to me to respect this.
– Francois Hollande
I am extremely excited to develop and design a brand representative of my life, experiences and style. Working closely with Cherokee will help establish a worldwide presence with best-in-class retailers and category leaders.
– Alessandra Ambrosio
I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.
– Danielle Steel
I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.
– David Rockefeller
I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.
– Terry Pratchett
I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.
– Lil' Kim
I am at home in many cultures. I live actively in three continents and I've done that for most of my life, so I just make films as I see the world, and that happens to speak to people. I do things that I want to do.
– Mira Nair
I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.
– Michelle Obama
I am a walking piece of art every day, with my dreams and my ambitions forward at all times in an effort to inspire my fans to lead their life in that way.
– Lady Gaga
I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
– Sachin Tendulkar
I am a relationship girl. That's kind of just how I'm made... When you're in my life, it's actually very contained.
– Charlize Theron
I am a perfectionist but I know how to live life. When I'm working, it's 100%. When I'm with my friends, I put everything away and enjoy life. When I come home to my kids, it's pure joy and everything's worth it. Every time, I really focus 100 percent on one thing. I've learned how to juggle my life and I feel like now I have the perfect balance.
– Monique Lhuillier
I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine.
– Patsy Kensit
I am a firm believer that God has already ordered the things that have taken place in my life...and I'm just learning to follow the path he's laid before me.
– Monica Denise Brown
I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
– June Jordan
I always wanted to be a zookeeper when I was growing up, and I've wound up a zookeeper! I've been working with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years! I'm the luckiest old broad on two feet because my life is divided absolutely in half - half animals and half show business. You can't ask for better than two things you love the most.
– Betty White
I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.
– Bruce Springsteen
I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.
– Toru Takemitsu
I always try to keep the circumstances in my life fresh. I like to change the physical environment I live in, change the people around me and try to experience things for the first time. I think that keeps one on their toes, creatively and spiritually.
– Lenny Kravitz
I always tried to do things by example, even though I was not a very good mother regarding routines and family life.
– Vivienne Westwood
I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life, and I'm the one who was on the other end.
– Niki Taylor
I always separated sports and my personal life.
– Carl Lewis
I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
– Imelda Marcos
I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.
– Billy Ray Cyrus
I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life - my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.
– Amy Adams
I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a very young child, as an eight- or nine-year-old, asking my teachers what poppies were for. Every year the teachers would suddenly wear these red paper flowers in their lapels, and I would say 'What does that mean?'
– Tom Hiddleston
I always believed in God and Christ, but I was in rebellion - trying to make my relationship with God fit into my life instead of making my life fit in with him. I was stubborn.
– Scott Stapp
I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.
– Pedro Almodovar
I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
– Barbara Walters
I admit to wasting my life messing around with fast cars and motorcycles.
– Brock Yates