Quotes About Life

Quotes About 'life'
» I never doubted my ability, but when you hear all your life you're inferior, it makes you
wonder if the other guys have something you've never seen before. If they do, I'm still
looking for it.
- Hank Aaron
» Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather
than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it
sings a song of life - not death.
- Berenice Abbott
» Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic
and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified as in real life
itself.
- Berenice Abbott
» I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want
to have lived the width of it as well.
- Diane Ackerman
» To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
- Lord Acton
» He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose
it was and whether they were enjoying it.
- Douglas Adams
» That young girl is one of the least benightedly unintelligent organic life forms it has
been my profound lack of pleasure not to be able to avoid meeting.
- Douglas Adams
» There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something
important.
- Franklin P. Adams
» You don't have to be a person of influence to be influential. In fact, the most influential
people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
- Scott Adams
» He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of
all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his
country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private
connections.
- Samuel Adams
» Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create
the fact.
- James Truslow Adams
» The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering
his attitude of mind.
- James Truslow Adams
» Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.

- Henry Adams
» The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and
infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.
- Henry Adams
» If you do this, we all of us shall be rewarded by the betterment of our towns, the
beautification of our streets, the improvement of our suburbs; we shall have made one
step forward to still further elevating, improving, and dignifying the life of our citizens.
- Thomas Adams
» Plan the town, if you like; but in doing it do not forget that you have got to spread the
people. Make wider roads, but do not narrow the tenements behind. Dignify the city by
all means, but not at the expense of the health of the home and the family life and the
comfort of the average workman and citizen.
- Thomas Adams
» If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life
a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
- Joseph Addison
» The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of
enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
- Joseph Addison
» Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love,
and something to hope for.
- Joseph Addison
» For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

- George Ade
» The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
- Alfred Adler
» What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And
what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you
possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find?
That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of
making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
- Alfred Adler
» Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and
prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be
delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
- Louisa May Alcott
» There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that
are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and
the investment is in health and education.
- Buzz Aldrin
» The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

- William R. Alger
» I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of
your life as a champion.''
- Muhammad Ali
» Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care
about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically
to promote a cause you believe in.
- Saul Alinsky
» I think most Coloradans would agree that our state is the most beautiful in the nation,
and the water flowing through our borders is its life blood.
- Wayne Allard
» A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears
dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
- Fred Allen
» One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you
must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what
your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
- George Allen
» All that you accomplish or fail to accomplish with your life is the direct result of your
thoughts.
- James Allen
» Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts
toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.
- James Allen
» My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

- Woody Allen
» Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

- Woody Allen
» There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an
insurance salesman?
- Woody Allen
» The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs.
- James Lane Allen
» The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this
you will build your life by, and this you will become.
- James Lane Allen
» A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes
eventful - then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of
fulness than of emptiness.
- William Allingham
» Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
» He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than
anyone else to miss and waste life.
» Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as
much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of
intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the
mask of solicitude.
» The best path through life is the highway.

» It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
- Kingsley Amis
» No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.
- Kingsley Amis
» Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the
particular will turn out to be universal.
- Martin Amis
» The facts of life are very stubborn things.

- Cleveland Amory
» I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we
want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.
- Gillian Anderson
» My whole belief system is that our paths are drawn for us. I believe in reincarnation. I
believe we're here to learn and grow. We choose how we come into this life based on
what it is we have to learn. Some people have harder lessons than others.
- Gillian Anderson
» No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change
anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
- Barbara de Angelis
» What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of
its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
- Barbara de Angelis
» At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as
resistance, especially if one had no choice.
- Maya Angelou
» My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh
so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.
- Maya Angelou
» There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
- Maya Angelou
» Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

- Jean Anouilh
» To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life
up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.
- Jean Anouilh
» The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.
- Minna Antrim
» In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will
die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs
medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the
Sacrament of Penance.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas
» Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man
cannot have the spiritual life of grace unless he is born again spiritually. This
regeneration is effected by Baptism: Unless a man is born again of water and the Holy
Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
» The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions.
A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
» Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation
in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative
life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt
for contemplation.
» We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will
make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We
Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem.
- Yasser Arafat
» Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were
born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
- Diane Arbus
» The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be
removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with
the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the ''easy life of the
gods'' would be a lifeless life.
- Hannah Arendt
» We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator
of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
- Hannah Arendt
» Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so
make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.
- Aristotle
» In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they
keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in
the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
- Aristotle
» It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
- Aristotle
» Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond
political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
- Aristotle
» The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of
circumstances.
- Aristotle
» The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation
rather than upon mere survival.
- Aristotle
» The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things
for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life -
knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
- Aristotle
» Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy
last.
- Aristotle
» Life for rent means that my life isn't really my own, I only rented it for a while, but if I
don't manage to buy it, to own it, then nothing of what I think is mine is really mine.
- Dido Armstrong
» Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

- Matthew Arnold
» It was from an old friend who thought he was dying. Anyway, he said, 'Life and death
issues don't come along that often, thank God, so don't treat everything like it's life or
death. Go easier.'
- Thomas Arnold
» One's age should be tranquil, as childhood should be playful. Hard work at either
extremity of life seems out of place. At midday the sun may burn, and men labor under it;
but the morning and evening should be alike calm and cheerful.
- Thomas Arnold
» 'Learn while you're young', he often said, 'there is much to enjoy, down here below, life
for the living, and rest for the dead!'
- George Arnold
» There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head,
frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that
life had prepared for him.
- Antonin Artaud
» When we speak the word ''life,'' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we
know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never
reach.
- Antonin Artaud
» I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned
business.
- Chester A. Arthur
» You know, I spend most of my life turning things down. There's a lot of crap out there.
- Beatrice Arthur
» We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're
aiming, you don't have a goal. My goal is to live my life in such a way that when I die,
someone can say, she cared.
- Mary Kay Ash
» You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning
or losing.
- Arthur Ashe
» And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should
never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.
- Isaac Asimov
» I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or
fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of
heaven would be even worse.
- Isaac Asimov
» The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than
society gathers wisdom.
- Isaac Asimov
» The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or
nothing.
- Nancy Astor
» Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what
choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and
must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.
- W. H. Auden
» And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.
- Marcus Aurelius
» Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

- Marcus Aurelius
» Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

- Marcus Aurelius
» The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard
accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and
reasonable nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
» The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself
in the ranks of the insane.
- Marcus Aurelius
» The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it.
- Marcus Aurelius
» Your life is what your thoughts make it.

- Marcus Aurelius
» To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking
plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
- Jane Austen
» To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

- Saint Teresa of Avila
» We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of
liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard.
- Mahmoud Abbas
» Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

- Lyman Abbott
» A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death.
- Lucius Accius
» Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks.
Yet most people don't. They sit in front of the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
- Philip Andrew Adams
» In the course of my life I have tried Boston socially on all sides: I have summered it
and wintered it, tried it drunk and tried it sober; and, drunk or sober, there's nothing in it -
save Boston!
- Charles Francis Adams, Jr.
» I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life... whatever god blesses
you with. Enjoying life for me is just normal.
- Mohamed Al-Fayed
» The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote
yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that
gives you purpose and meaning.
- Mitch Albom
» Woman embroiders man's life - Embroider is to beautify - The embroidery of

cleanliness - Of a smile - Of gentle words.
- Mary Wood Allen
» Life is precious to the old person. He is not interested merely in thoughts of yesterday's
good life and tomorrow's path to the grave. He does not want his later years to be a
sentence of solitary confinement in society. Nor does he want them to be a death watch.
- David Allman
» So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other
than laughter.
- Gordon W. Allport
» I'm the kind of person who just can't wait to get on a train and not know where I'm
going. I definitely want to live life to the fullest. And that's the type of man I'm attracted
to - somebody with that spontaneous spirit.
- Summer Altice
» People are taken aback by a confident, pretty girl who knows what she wants in life and
isn't going to let anyone get in her way. And you know what it's all about? Jealousy.
- Summer Altice
» I think that our fundamental belief is that for us growth is a way of life and we have to
grow at all times.
- Mukesh Ambani
» Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

- Hans Christian Andersen
» Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of
my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or
I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
- Walter Anderson
» My own mystic bent leads me to believe that musical variations, collage, reiteration and
process, or evolution, are beautiful. Life is worth living and beauty is worth making.
- Beth Anderson
» I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my

philosophies and life observations.
- Judith Anderson
» There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart.
- Judith Anderson
» As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious
of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my
death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.
- John Andre
» The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.
- Antisthenes
» I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
- Lauren Bacall
» Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there.
What you choose to do with them is up to you.
- Richard Bach
» I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
- Richard Bach
» Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a
world event.
- Gaston Bachelard
» To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it
no longer.
- Gaston Bachelard
» A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

- Francis Bacon
» But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and
angels to be lookers on.
- Francis Bacon
» Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
- Francis Bacon
» It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the
fairer way is not much about.
- Francis Bacon
» The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

- Francis Bacon
» The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
- Francis Bacon
» A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
» The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
» Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take
away a moment.
- Pearl Bailey
» There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes

either good or sour inside.
- Pearl Bailey
» Even though the college man raises no more wheat than his neighbor, he will have
more satisfaction raising it. He will know why he turns the clod; he will challenge the
worm that burrows in the furrow; his eyes will follow the field mouse that scuds under
the grass; he will see the wild fowl winging its way across the heaven. All these things
will add to the meaning of life and they are his.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey
» Fact is not to be worshipped. The life which is devoid of imagination is dead; it is tied
to the earth. There need be no divorce of fact and fancy; they are only the poles of
experience. What is called the scientific method is only imagination set within bounds.
Facts are bridged by imagination. They are tied together by the thread of speculation. The
very essence of science is to reason from the known to the unknown.
» If today you care only for pinks and roses and other prim garden flows, next year you
will also admire the wild convolvulus on the old fence and the winter stalks of the
sunflower. There are times and seasons for all plants. One's sympathies are wide, as one's
life is full and resourceful.
» It is a marvelous planet on which we ride. It is a great privilege to live thereon, to

partake in the journey, and to experience its goodness. We may cooperate rather than
rebel. We should try to find the meanings rather than to be satisfied only with the
spectacles. My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams.
» My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw
and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth
is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.
» We must tell it to the world that the higher education is necessary to the best
agriculture. We must tell our friends of our enthusiasm for the generous life of the
country. We must say that we believe in our ability to make good use of every lesson
which the University has given us. We must say to every man that our first love is
steadfast, our hopes are high, and our enthusiasm is great. Our hearts are so full that we
must celebrate.
» I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people.
- Tom Baker
» I've had to hold back certain things for legal reasons, or just out of common decency,
but I think autobiography has got to be selected confessions, hasn't it? I could have said
jolly things about some of the dreadful people I've spent my life with, but it would have
been a cheat.
- Tom Baker
» To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to
be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
- James A. Baldwin
» A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they
live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean
money.
- William Baldwin
» One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn' t pay to get discouraged.
Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
- Lucille Ball
» Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the
strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
- Hosea Ballou
» If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in
which children grow up in our ghettos, you would predict that all of them would be on
drugs or psychological basket cases. Yet if you use criteria like gainful employment,
forming partnerships and life without crime, you will find that most of those kids make it.
- Albert Bandura
» If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
- Tallulah Bankhead
» For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
» What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest
good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
» A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease
looking back at you.
- Brigitte Bardot
» There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to
have to face.
- Carl Barks
» We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
- Djuna Barnes
» How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
- Natalie Clifford Barney
» With renunciation life begins.

- Natalie Clifford Barney
» Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if
you will sacrifice everything else for it.
- James M. Barrie
» Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is
necessary?
- James M. Barrie
» The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes
another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he
vowed to make it.
- James M. Barrie
» I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So,
you might as well just have a good time with it.
- Fantasia Barrino
» I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come
back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.
- Dave Barry
» If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she
will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
- Dave Barry
» The difference between men and women is that, if given the choice between saving the
life of an infant or catching a fly ball, a woman will automatically choose to save the
infant, without even considering if there's a man on base.
- Dave Barry
» Sooner or later... you are going to be looking at God saying, We're going to be lucky if
we get out of here. Your life is going to be in front of you and then you are going to
realize that you'd rather be grocery shopping.
- Ed Barry
» In life it wasn't what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to
buy teams and had they bought the teams, I would have gotten to coach because they
wanted me to coach. But the people who have the teams hire their friends.
- Rick Barry
» The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
- John Barrymore
» I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals,
you don't know what life has in store for you.
- Drew Barrymore
» I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into
who you are in the end.
- Drew Barrymore
» Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in

His own day. He thought of His life as business.
- Bruce Barton
» It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much
worrying he has done over the squalls.
- Bruce Barton
» The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much
more faith than they themselves realize.
- Bruce Barton
» One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything
everynight before you go to bed.
- Bernard Baruch
» Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I
have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without
thought.
- Bernard Baruch
» A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and
the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can
hear a thing.
- Georges Bataille
» Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

- Georges Bataille
» The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of
human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between
good and evil.
- Georges Bataille
» The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and
steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
- Charles Baudelaire
» The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex
creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and
those who are impossible to find.
- Charles Baudelaire
» Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be
developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched
as microfilm into the sidereal void.
- Jean Baudrillard
» Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
- Simone de Beauvoir
» I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

» It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody,
whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the
absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
» One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of
love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
» Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow
for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.
» I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him.
It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
- Samuel Beckett
» Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life
unto God.
- Henry Ward Beecher
» Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines
no sun.
- Hilaire Belloc
» There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more
coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and
what this life is for.
- Saul Bellow
» Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

- Walter Benjamin
» We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when
it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated,
perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.
- Walter Benjamin
» Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment;

photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
- Tony Benn
» Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or
moving you away from your goals.
- Bo Bennett
» If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your
spent your whole life pursuing?
- Bo Bennett
» One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that
does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
- Bo Bennett
» The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really
don't want most of the things you think you want.
- Bo Bennett
» Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and
unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all
aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of
yourself.
- Robert Bennett
» I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be
part of it.
- George Benson
» My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my
life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a
singer.
- George Benson
» After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't
a tourist.
- Edgar Bergen
» Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not
survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.
- John Berger
» That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are
more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to
believe.
- John Berger
» The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away
his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us
with the feeling that something is right in the world.
- Leonard Bernstein
» Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely
and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown
country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and
lose many a battle.
- Annie Besant
» Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the
folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
- Ambrose Bierce
» The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
- Ambrose Bierce
» The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale
than an angleworm.
- Josh Billings
» There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: Twins.
- Josh Billings
» There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first
comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain
goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has
happened again.
- Rudolf Bing
» It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first
condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something
outside self.
- Hugo Black
» I was doing bad movies as a day job. And it almost ruined my life for a while. But I
have done 130-odd films, and only fourteen have been spooky ones. I'm not spooky! I
want life!
- Karen Black
» For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

- William Blake
» He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy
as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
- William Blake
» If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that
great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the
perfect state.
- Cate Blanchett
» Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that
produces great deeds and thoughts.
- Allan Bloom
» I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch
hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
- Erma Bombeck
» I've decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost $16.95 and
everyone else loved it. Or eat a fried egg with a broken yolk (which I hate) when the dog
would leap over the St. Louis Arch for it.
- Erma Bombeck
» If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
» Advances in technology will continue to reach far into every sector of our economy.
Future job and economic growth in industry, defense, transportation, agriculture, health
care, and life sciences is directly related to scientific advancement.
- Christopher Bond
» We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs,
when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.
- Kjell Magne Bondevik
» Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are
doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the
possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and
more interesting.
- Edward de Bono
» Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once
and for all, who he is.
- Jorge Luis Borges
» If you must commit suicide... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the
decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.
- George Borrow
» Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows
of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
- George Borrow
» The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers:
now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the
nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his
share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
- George Borrow
» There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all
sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would
wish to die?
- George Borrow
» I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day-to-day take on things.

The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to
laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.
- Alain de Botton
» There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are
baseless, and the other half discreditable.
- Christian Nestell Bovee
» Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
- Elizabeth Bowen
» Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what
we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
- Barbara Boxer
» We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will.
Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The
Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
- Ray Bradbury
» This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is
ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in
acting, to live.
- Omar N. Bradley
» People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles.
They are looking for a place where they can be free, where they can do things they
couldn't do anywhere else.
- Tom Bradley
» To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and
to express it his dedication.
- Marlon Brando
» Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life
more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so
much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.
- Richard Branson
» What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.
- Bertolt Brecht
» I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for
the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts
on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.
- Jimmy Breslin
» People born in Queens, raised to say that each morning they get on the subway and go
to the city, have a resentment of Manhattan, of the swiftness of its life and success of the
people who live there.
- Jimmy Breslin
» My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons
and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected
on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
- Robert Bresson
» No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its
conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then
renounce his new freedom so easily.
- Andre Breton
» It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more
significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.
- Kingman Brewster
» After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to
fake one of them, it had better be life.
- Joseph Brodsky
» This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.
- Joseph Brodsky
» I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.
- Emily Bronte
» Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
- Anita Brookner
» The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so
simple and never so just.
- Anita Brookner
» Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to
flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of
death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.
- Mel Brooks
» Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a
life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
- Phillip Brooks
» Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
- Phillip Brooks
» No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and
that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
- Phillip Brooks
» No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs
to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
- Phillip Brooks
» The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any man
when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -
where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do
something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.
- Phillip Brooks
» We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of
our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.
- Les Brown
» A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a
life of action, not reaction.
- Rita Mae Brown
» I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same
challenges every day.
- Dan Brown
» It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I
am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end.
- Thomas Edward Brown
» After a year in therapy my psychiatrist said to me, Maybe life isn't for everyone.
- Larry Brown
» You have to do something in your life that is honorable and not cowardly if you are to
live in peace with yourself, and for the firefighter it is fire.
- Larry Brown
» And love can come to everyone, the best things in life are free.
- Lew Brown
» I consider the probability that there is other intelligent life in the universe
overwhelming. And we will ultimately find it.
- George E. Brown, Jr.
» Human cloning is the deliberate creation of a human life for utilitarian purposes. That
life is created simply for research or for the benefit of another. Any time in history when
we have subjected one class of human beings to enslavement by another class has been
wrong.
- Sam Brownback
» You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you,
my whole life long.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
» I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

- Robert Browning
» His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the terrace for
a while, walked off and forgot him. It was the perfect start in life for a writer.
- Anatole Broyard
» The midnight snack of a life in its 70s.

- Anatole Broyard
» The tension between yes and no, between I can and I cannot, makes us feel that, in so
many instances, human life is an interminable debate with one's self.
- Anatole Broyard
» I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to

western Europe during the Reagan era are feeling appropriately stupid today. 'Please don't
take away our precious Soviet Union! - We demand the annihilation of all life on Earth!'
- Craig Bruce
» If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one
is pretty equal to the other.
- Jean de la Bruyere
» There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes
before you have so much as sketched your work.
- Jean de la Bruyere
» I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so
absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and
angels.
- Pearl S. Buck
» If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

- Pearl S. Buck
» Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it,
that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.
- Pearl S. Buck
» Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As
good? It is life itself.
- Pearl S. Buck
» The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
- Pearl S. Buck
» Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
- Pearl S. Buck
» He who experiences the unity of life sees his own Self in all beings, and all beings in
his own Self, and looks on everything with an impartial eye.
- Buddha
» Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and
compassion are the things which renew humanity.
- Buddha
» The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- Buddha
» Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will
not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- Buddha
» Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of
death.
- Buddha
» You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've
had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week,
I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.
- Warren Buffett
» You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too
many things wrong.
- Warren Buffett
» Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger
hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
- Jimmy Buffett
» I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To
feel all feeling die.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
» Whatever the number of a man's friends, there will be times in his life when he has one
too few; but if he has only one enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has not one too many.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
» A loving family provides the foundation children need to succeed, and strong families
with a man and a woman - bonded together for life - always have been, and always will
be, the key to such families.
- Jim Bunning
» There can be no assumption that today's majority is right and the Amish and others like
them are wrong. A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or
interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.
- Warren E. Burger
» I must say that acting was good training for the political life that lay ahead of us.
- Anthony Burgess
» I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of

Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.
- James Lee Burke
» Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative
people.
- Leo Burnett
» Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who
perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of
Montana.
- Conrad Burns
» False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship
gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
- Richard Burton
» Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear,
an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn
a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia
» There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
- Gary Busey
» America stands for liberty, for the pursuit of happiness and for the unalienable right for
life. This right to life cannot be granted or denied by government because it does not
come from government, it comes from the creator of life.
- George W. Bush
» States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice
of ending a life that otherwise could live.
- George W. Bush
» There can be no peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and
aggressive dictator. I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam
Hussein.
- George W. Bush
» This way of life is worth defending.

- George W. Bush
» When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the
savior, it changes your heart.
- George W. Bush
» A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but
America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer
of any kind.
- Samuel Butler
» All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
- Samuel Butler
» All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it.
- Samuel Butler
» Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

- Samuel Butler
» If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
- Samuel Butler
» Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
- Samuel Butler
» Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
- Samuel Butler
» I spent the first twenty years of my life waiting for two men I was reasonably certain
would never come back - my daddy and Jesus Christ. I don't wait for them anymore. My
dad, anyway. And at least with Jesus I didn't spend all that time thinking he was gone
because of something I did.
- Brett Butler
» Instead my life has been like being mashed and mashed through a wine press until
finally there will be nothing left but the desire to live by divine will, knowing what I'm
really supposed to do and doing it.
- Brett Butler
» We try to magnify the difference between Americans and the English. In real life they
like the same music and dress the same. It's really much more similar than anyone thinks
or how we show it.
- Amanda Bynes
» Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's
verge.
- Lord Byron
» Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in
sleep.
- Lord Byron
» Every day confirms my opinion on the superiority of a vicious life - and if Virtue is not
its own reward I don't know any other stipend annexed to it.
- Lord Byron
» For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life
into one hour.
- Lord Byron
» It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

- Lord Byron
» Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
- Lord Byron
» Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a
woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.
- Lord Byron
» The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
- Lord Byron
» 'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

- Lord Byron
» When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling,
buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a
dormouse.
- Lord Byron
» I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in
order to extend my life as long as possible.
- Michelangelo
» I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given
to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.
- Michelangelo
» Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a
dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.
- Sai Baba
» Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an
end to the very essence of life contained in them.
- Sai Baba
» The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.
- Sai Baba
» You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.
- Sai Baba
» As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings - that tomorrow's sunlight will
be the last that thou shalt see; and that for fifty years wilt live out thy life in ample
wealth.
- Bacchylides
» I just lead my life as naturally, as normally as I possibly can. But I can't help it if
controversy is hounding me day in and day out. I'm quite amazed sometimes by the way
they go about it. I grow a beard and it lands up in the editorial in The Times of India.
- Amitabh Bachchan
» It is necessary to examine, in a detailed way, the contemporary theory of Evil, the

ideology of human rights, the concept of democracy. It is necessary to show that nothing
there leads in the direction of the real emancipation of humanity. It is necessary to
reconstruct rights, in everyday life as in politics, of Truth and of the Good. Our ability to
once again have real ideas and real projects depends on it.
- Alain Badiou
» I do not interfere with your personal life domestically, and internationally, our military
forces should not be interfering with foreign governments.
- Michael Badnarik
» Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.

- Byrd Baggett
» The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life
remains.
- Josephine Baker
» They are both great fans and they have been for years and years. It is a bit more of a
social event there and here it is almost kind of like life and death. The fans are really
really into it and terribly disappointed when you lose. They are very compassionate about
the team and they are very knowledgeable fans here.
- Dusty Baker
» When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what
I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do.
- Adrienne Barbeau
» The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

- William Barclay
» The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is
that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.
- William Barclay
» There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we
discover why.
- William Barclay
» We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less
about what life has taken away.
- William Barclay
» When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never
cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not
resent life any longer.
- William Barclay
» When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person;
it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.
- William Barclay
» The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar
on the staircase.
- Clive Barnes
» Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are
explained to you, life where things aren't.
- Julian Barnes
» The writer's life is full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work.
Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.
- Julian Barnes
» Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an
angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
- Shari R. Barr
» There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring
something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able
to take something out.
- Mikhail Baryshnikov
» I ask you to stand by my side in the next five years. We shall live a good life in a
Romania of all Romanians.
- Traian Basescu
» A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy
in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see.
- Phyllis Battelle
» As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The
distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced
communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.
- Stephen Bayley
» I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know
that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing.
But that's the way I'm doing it.
- Emmanuelle Beart
» Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and
heal people's souls.
- Melody Beattie
» A month of days, a year of months, 20 years of months in the treadmill, is the life that
slays everything worthy of the name of life.
- Roy Bedicheck
» To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it.

- Jim Beggs
» The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, that she, whom all my life
I'd loved, should be another's wife.
- Henry Glassford Bell
» To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good
horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in
life must interest you but your stomach.
- Ludwig Bemelmans
» The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns
and standards traditionally handed down in his community.
- Ruth Benedict
» Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the
thousand small uncaring ways.
- Stephen Vincent Benet
» Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful...
Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a
day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
- Charles Bradlaugh
» When you're working opposite Halle Berry, you're going to get a lot. So you have to
give a lot. That said, what I've found striking in the past few days is that people are aware
of a good chemistry that exists between us on screen. If that's so, it's due to the fact that
she and I have a real liking for each other in real life and a real mutual respect.
- Benjamin Bratt
» Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the good life we thinks others lead by
acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe
the gift of our grateful hearts.
- Sarah Ban Breathnach
» Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies... that which to us is
merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.
- T. Casey Brennan
» A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.
- Benjamin H. Brewster
» All that a pacifist can undertake - but it is a very great deal - is to refuse to kill, injure or
otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by
the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.
- Vera Brittain
» Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

- Phillips Brooks
» Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the
happy life for all.
- Heywood Broun
» The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
- Heywood Broun
» Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you
want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for
everything.
- Harry Browne
» Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
- Sitting Bull
» Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived
completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to
death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
- Julie Burchill
» I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead
to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active
disengagement.
- Ken Burns
» Control your life through insanity.

- Cliff Burton
» The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

- Robert Byrne
» Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid
of life then of death.
- James F. Byrnes
» It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or
appreciate the little things in life like belonging. A sense of belonging is a big thing
today.
- James Caan
» Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by
intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.
- Eileen Caddy
» Gratitude helps you to grow and expands; gratitude brings you and laughter into your
life and into the lives of all those around you.
- Eileen Caddy
» Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
- Eileen Caddy
» It was just everyday living. With me, it was fighting, more fighting, and more fighting.
Life then was simply the way it was: ordinary, not bad, not good, just regular. No stress,
no strain. Of course, no one had much of anything, but we didn't know that we were poor.
- James Cagney
» The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

- John C. Calhoun
» An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down.
It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've
left the opera house.
- Maria Callas
» Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a
friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they're only made
of sand. It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side
when you haven't.
- Maria Callas
» Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

- Julia Cameron
» A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
- Joseph Campbell
» I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking
for the experience of being alive.
- Joseph Campbell
» Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever
you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
» We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is
waiting for us.
- Joseph Campbell
» What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own
unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have
been experienced by anyone else.
- Joseph Campbell
» For me, rationalizing skills training is neither a political fetish nor a form of currency
used between governments. Above all, it is the logical solution to a very real human
problem. By making better use of the resources we devote to training, we will instill hope
in Canadian men and women who ask nothing more than to live a life of dignity.
- Kim Campbell
» I have met thousands of Canadians individually-in their homes, in their communities, in

every province across the country. From my home province of British Columbia to
Newfoundland, I have sensed the deep desire in Canadians of every age to get involved,
to become part of our life as a nation, to have control of their own lives. And it is clear
that a strong bond still exists between our Party and Quebecers.
- Kim Campbell
» The man from the east end of Montreal who has worked all his life on the line should
not be forced to accept handouts when the plant closes. He should be given the chance to
retrain or to start his own business. He should be given every opportunity to continue to
contribute to the community that he probably has spent his life helping to build.
- Kim Campbell
» As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only
desert within our means.
- Albert Camus
» But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus
» For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as
in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
- Albert Camus
» I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live
my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
- Albert Camus
» If there is sin against life, it consists... in hoping for another life and in eluding the
implacable grandeur of this life.
- Albert Camus
» It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.
- Albert Camus
» Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.
- Albert Camus
» She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a
life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.
- Vincent Canby
» One should not confuse the craving for life with endorsement of it.
- Elias Canetti
» Physicians must be free to make clinical determinations, in accordance with medical

standards of care, that best safeguard a woman's life and health. Women and their
families, along with their doctors, are simply better than politicians at making decisions
about their medical care.
- Maria Cantwell
» I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get
their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of grief. I've
been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor.
- Al Capone
» Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

- Al Capp
» I prayed very hard for this to happen and it happened. I don't even think about what I've
achieved, I haven't focused on it and I wish I had, because I really want to enjoy it, and I
don't know if I am enjoying it, because I am going through my life like a bulldozer. I still
haven't marvelled at it.
- Mariah Carey
» I'm not one of those people that goes into details of my personal life on national TV to
get attention. Some things are better left unsaid.
- Mariah Carey
» The two things I was positive about in life were that I was going to be a teacher at a
boarding school or an operative with the CIA posted abroad. I could write a book about
all the things I was sure about.
- Tucker Carlson
» A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

- Thomas Carlyle
» When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior
ceases to be intelligent.
- Thomas Carlyle
» Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a
kind of dry-rot in the long run.
- Bliss Carman
» Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of
their listeners.
- Dale Carnegie
» Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who
is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
» There are no words, no paints to express all this, only a beautiful dumbness in the soul,
life speaking to life.
- Emily Carr
» If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
- Johnny Carson
» It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do
is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.
- Angela Carter
» For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of
happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual
nourishment of its inhabitants.
- Jimmy Carter
» The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing,

infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been
tested by adversity.
- Jimmy Carter
» Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.

- Jimmy Carter
» How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate
with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because
someday in your life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver
» When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the
attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver
» I look upon life as a gift from God. I did nothing to earn it. Now that the time is coming
to give it back, I have no right to complain.
- Joyce Cary
» I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
- Pablo Casals
» The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do.
- Pablo Casals
» I think the first time I knew what I wanted to do with my life was when I was about
four years old. I was listening to an old Victrola, playing a railroad song. The song was
called, Hobo Bill's Last Ride. And I thought it was the most wonderful, amazing thing
that I'd ever seen.
- Johnny Cash
» I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.
- David Cassidy
» I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when
the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
- Fidel Castro
» What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive
element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop,
too sweet to lose.
- Willa Cather
» Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our
attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the
false.
- Richard Cecil
» Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher,
there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were
awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting - or he'll come along
and nibble your brain.
- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
» Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it
life is insupportable.
- Miguel de Cervantes
» Nor has his death the world deceiv'd than his wondrous life surprise d; if he like a
madman liv'd least he like a wise one dy'd.
» Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it
should be.
» In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of
life and art. It is the color of love.
- Marc Chagall
» I pattern my actions and life after what I want. No two people are alike. You might
admire attributes in others, but use these only as a guide in improving yourself in your
own unique way. I don't go for carbon copies. Individualism is sacred!
- Richard Chamberlain
» The truth is our country, our people, our liberties, and our way of life are under attack
by radical Islamic terrorists who kill and destroy in the name of religion.
- Saxby Chambliss
» Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop
watching ourselves live.
- Nicolas de Chamfort
» The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch
oneself live.
» There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the
damages of time and injustices of men.
» God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us
heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
- William Ellery Channing
» No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than
simple loyalty to their best convictions.
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin
» The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to
others.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
» My own life planning has always been 10 years ahead. I knew when I was 13 that this
was what I wanted to be. Right now I feel about nine months behind where I would have
liked to be at age 46. Ten years from now, I'd like to be doing what I'm doing and
collecting more interest.
- Chubby Checker
» The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's
usefulness.
- John Cheever
» It's awesome to me the number of people who don't really know who you are, but
who're finding this music now and are curious, and my attitude is always to let people
have a sense of who you are, so they know where this music and these songs come from.
Because it is my life, or the life of people I know.
- Kenny Chesney
» If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that
I have worked with God.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
» Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life
seen in the newspapers is another.
» The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is
no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
» The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to
keep it.
» The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to
be interested properly in any of them.
» The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
» When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take
them with gratitude.
» I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My

family and school life are important to me. I try to do one movie a year.
- Anna Chlumsky
» Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change
someone else's life forever.
- Margaret Cho
» The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30
to 50 years.
- Deepak Chopra
» One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
- Agatha Christie
» Death came very easily to her. She had lived such an innocent and loving life of service
to others and held such a simple faith, that she had no fears at all and did not seem to
mind very much.
- Winston Churchill
» I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the
social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.
- Winston Churchill
» My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the
drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals
between them.
- Winston Churchill
» Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

- Winston Churchill
» The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the
principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three;
and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class
in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.
- Winston Churchill
» We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Winston Churchill
» Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be
destroyed.
- Winston Churchill
» Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
» The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

» This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the
Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.
» We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

» What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is
like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.
» Life inspires more dread than death-it is life which is the great unknown.
- Emile M. Cioran
» The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
- Emile M. Cioran
» If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.

- John Clare
» Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of
little things.
- Frank A. Clark
» If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with
that?'
- John Cleese
» A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed - I well know. For it's a sign that
he tried to surpass himself.
- Georges Clemenceau
» You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.
- George Clooney
» In Europe, there's a very different attitude towards art-you're sort of given your whole
life to make your work, whereas here it's, what have you done lately.
- Chuck Close
» Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me

every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored
dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life
experience.
- Chuck Close
» What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a
still life in front of you? You still have to look.
- Chuck Close
» I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards
and left them in the ditch.
- Ty Cobb
» I believe all life has value, from conception to natural death. And I believe the
intentional taking of human life, except to save lives, should be a capital offense, as it is
in most states in America today.
- Tom Coburn
» My hope is that one day America will return to our historic standards which were to
respect the life of the unborn.
- Tom Coburn
» I understand about this idea of terror and what it means to Americans and this idea that
we can't just walk around free like we did; life has changed.
- Johnnie Cochran
» I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation.
- Johnnie Cochran
» Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently
trying to untie.
- Jean Cocteau
» Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death.
To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself
with something other than life or death.
- Jean Cocteau
» The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event,
one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that
element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
- Jean Cocteau
» Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
- Leonard Cohen
» Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is
happening inside of us.
- Alan Cohen
» You are in integrity when the life you are living on the outside matches who you are on
the inside.
- Alan Cohen
» Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the
law which is perfection of reason.
- Edward Coke
» Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always
answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
- Frank Moore Colby
» I have more than four people on this planet in my life who see me for myself and forget
that I've worked on network television. They forget I've worked in movies, and that I'm
an actor. As long as I have four people who can do that, then there are others who are
capable of doing that.
- Gary Coleman
» The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities
of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
» Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
» What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.
- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
» It is only when you despair of all ordinary means, it is only when you convince it that it
must help you or you perish, that the seed of life in you bestirs itself to provide a new
resource.
- Robert Collier
» The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.
- Joan Collins
» Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking
where we ought to feel.
- John Collins
» Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.
- William Collins
» In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men
that are both great and good.
- Charles Caleb Colton
» Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the
time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
- Charles Caleb Colton
» Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon
heaven.
- Confucius
» The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his
work must first sharpen his tools.
- Confucius
» The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are
not likely to be forgiven.
- Cyril Connolly
» The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each
wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
- Cyril Connolly
» There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with
a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten -
before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.
- Joseph Conrad
» There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
- Joseph Conrad
» Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity
in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the
form it will.
- Alistair Cooke
» We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them
that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-
grade idiot.
- Charles Horton Cooley
» Advertising is the life of trade.

- Calvin Coolidge
» I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my
imagination.
- Chris Cooper
» You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow
parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.
- Chris Cooper
» It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle. But
that does not mean it is right. Now you must raise your children up in a world where that
union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife.
- John Cornyn
» Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational
value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.
- Pierre de Coubertin
» The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.

» The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to
have fought well.
» The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the
essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.
» If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to
immortality.
- Norman Cousins
» The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine
feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the
pain or the glory of other men in yourself.
- Norman Cousins
» I'm convinced that we can write and live our own scripts more than most people will
acknowledge. I also know the price that must be paid. It's a real struggle to do it. It
requires visualization and affirmation. It involves living a life of integrity, starting with
making and keeping promises, until the whole human personality the senses, the thinking,
the feeling, and the intuition are ultimately integrated and harmonized.
- Stephen Covey
» Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to
decide what is really important to them.
- Stephen Covey
» I'll go through life either first class or third, but never in second.
- Noel Coward
» Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true
happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
- William Cowper
» Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
- Daniel Craig
» The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing
great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to
me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.
- Alan Cranston
» If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr.
Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up
violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
- Quentin Crisp
» The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in
the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness
as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.
- Quentin Crisp
» I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life
everything he's got.
- Walter Cronkite
» The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would
not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
- Walter Cronkite
» I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I
like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it.
- Russell Crowe
» I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me
when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find
someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that.
- Tom Cruise
» It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in
my life and it's something that has given me great stability and tools that I use.
- Tom Cruise
» What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a
picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an
immediacy.
- Tom Cruise
» Most of my adult life I had this towering contempt for America.

- Robert Crumb
» All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
- Marie Curie
» Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

- Marie Curie
» My hero was Tom Merry, and I tried to mould my way of life according to his tenets.
- Peter Cushing
» The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a
second life and of having come to know another human being in some ways better than
he knew himself.
- Mary Cable
» I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

- Herb Caen
» I truly feel that there are as many ways of loving as there are people in the world and as
there are days in the life of those people.
- Mary S. Calderone
» I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and
felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography
more exciting.
- Harry Callahan
» The clock is ticking and you're hearing the beat. You stop by a museum shop, sign your
name on a scuba-diving sheet, and commit yourself to Saturday mornings in the deep
end. You're either losing your mind - or gaining your soul. Life is meant to be an artist
date. That's why we were created.
- Julia Margaret Cameron
» When I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was
my belief that everything in life is a learning experience, whether it be positive or
negative. If you can see it as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a
positive.
- Neve Campbell
» All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have
to do is go after it.
- Curtis Carlson
» Drugs are marvelous - it's life that's evil. And sometimes the only way to face it is to
get completely twisted.
- E. Jean Carroll
» My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I
was born, 1908, to just before the First World War and shortly after it. This music I've
always known, and it is that music that's most important to me.
- Elliot Carter
» If we are genuinely committed to promoting a culture of peace, as individuals we must

look to our values and ensure that we all exhibit a peace loving life to our nation's
children.
- Silvia Cartwright
» The domination of western values, beliefs and way of life has angered many from the
east and in developing countries.
- Silvia Cartwright
» When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that
life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know
that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.
- Whittaker Chambers
» If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to
an absolutely turbulent life which is typical of moviemaking. And then you get back to
your normal life and you have to have nerves of steel.
- Geraldine Chaplin
» At this point in my life I'd like to live as if only love mattered.

- Tracy Chapman
» I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.
- Tracy Chapman
» Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is
slavery, give me a life sentence.
- Bobby Charlton
» The greatest and proudest moment moment of my life standing on the podium receiving
the silver medal on behalf of myself and Australia.
- Graham Cheney
» We have entered the era of the imperial former presidency with lavish libraries, special
staffs and benefits, around-the-clock Secret Service protection for life and other badges
of privilege.
- Lawton Chiles
» I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I
ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have.
- Alex Chilton
» You can't live your life being upset about things, but it's a lot easier to not be upset
about it if you've got enough money yourself. If you're walking around broke and
working a job from nine to five or seven to five, and you're really struggling to make
ends meet, you start thinking about people who have ripped you off and getting pretty
angry at them.
- Alex Chilton
» The purpose of Christianity is not to avoid difficulty, but to produce a character

adequate to meet it when it comes. It does not make life easy; rather it tries to make us
great enough for life.
- James L. Christensen
» I can't say enough about how I'm against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it
does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous
enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help.
- Erika Christensen
» A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own
path, not chasing after the dreams of others.
- Chin-Ning Chu
» To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the
job.
- Chin-Ning Chu
» If you don't love life you can't enjoy an oyster; there is a shock of freshness to it and
intimations of the ages of man, some piercing intuition of the sea and all its weeds and
breezes. They shiver you for a split second.
- Eleanor Clark
» Whose life is it anyway?

- Brian Clark
» There's a lot of different things that we do during life that could personally harm us and
I choose not to stop doing those things.
- Laurel Clark
» If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the
business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that
they have to be plastic.
- Jimmy Cliff
» The resultant tales from life are stirring reader interest, survivor passions and unease
among Britons.
- Francis X. Clines
» Comic characters have to have some kind of life breathed into them, and I'm never
exactly sure how that's done, but you can tell when it works and when it doesn't. There's
nothing worse than looking at a comic when somebody doesn't have that. It's like looking
at store windows or something.
- Daniel Clowes
» You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really
have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page
sometimes.
- Daniel Clowes
» What a crazy world we live in! Trying to treat addiction as a legal problem, and trying
to treat criminal misbehaviors using guns as a medical problem! Beam me up, Scotty.
Ain't no intelligent life down here.
- Julie Cochrane
» It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are,
for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more
interestingly.
- William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
» The cause of violence is not ignorance. It is self-interest. Only reverance can restrain
violence - reverance for human life and the environment.
- William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
» Big plans, elaborate schemes and grand designs sort of messily bleeding into one
another have created Chicago's reputation for rawness. But that rawness is just ambition-
sometimes ambition run amuck-that has acquired a life of its own.
- Pat Colander
» I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

- Kitty O'Neill Collins
» It's one thing to want a healthy child. But it's another thing to refuse to let an unhealthy
child see the light of day. When we manipulate life in this way and diminish the
humanity of the unborn, we become less human ourselves because we end up viewing
life - all life, ours included - as a commodity that can be rejected by quality control.
- Charles Colson
» That family glaze of common references, jokes, events, calamities-that sense of a

family being like a kitchen midden: layer upon layer of the things daily life is made of.
The edifice that lovers build is by comparison delicate and one-dimensional.
- Laurie Colwin
» Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.
- James Bryant Conant
» I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.
- Jennifer Connelly
» Oh! all of you poor single men, Don't ever give up in despair, For there's always a
chance while there's life To capture the hearts of the fair, No matter what may be your
age, You always may cut a fine dash, You will suit all the girls to a hair.
- George Cooper
» Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
- E. Joseph Cossman
» Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to find a
way to live, to solve problems, to fend off madness and chaos.
- David Cronenberg
» I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront
aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror
film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.
- David Cronenberg
» Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
- Amanda Cross
» Within this thin wafer of bread is caught up symbolically the labor of plow and of
sowing, of harvest and threshing, of milling, of packing, of transportation, of financing,
of selling and packaging. Man's industrial life is all there.
- Wilford O. Cross
» In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so
we have something to make a movie about.
- Cameron Crowe
» I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that... I might be
master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences
joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the
study of nature.
- Abraham Crowley
» If I had done 'Titanic,' it would have made, probably, $200,000 - worldwide. So I think
my life would have been very, very similar.
- Billy Crudup
» I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent
most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.
- Penelope Cruz
» A movie star seemed simply like the nearest equivalent we've got, we who live
blessedly free of a monarchy, to that sense of the human form exalted, the life made
fabulous simply by who and what the person is.
- Michael Cunningham
» I've seen God in His creation and I've always loved Him. People might think I'm sick,
but the Lord has turned my life around. I now know why I had to run again and win that
fourth gold medal, to make a mark in people's minds. He is now using my situation to tell
people about Him. We truly have a great God.
- Betty Cuthbert
» If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
- Anthony J. D'Angelo
» Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that
life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.
- Edward Dahlberg
» What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to
holding public office and trying to do something for his people?
- Richard J. Daley
» If it wasn't for pick-pockets I'd have no sex life at all.

- Rodney Dangerfield
» Any accolades that anybody puts toward this band really makes me feel good, because I
have devoted such a big part of my life to this band, making it what I want it to be.
- Charlie Daniels
» Make sure to be honest with yourself, about if that's really what you want to do with
your life - to make music. It takes a commitment - a tremendous, thick-skinned
commitment of being the first one to get there and the last one to leave, doing what you
want to do even if you have to work twice as hard as anybody else ever did.
- Charlie Daniels
» A poor life this if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare.
- William Henry Davies
» What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
- William Henry Davies
» A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and
'70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives,
previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that.
- Dave Davies
» I think people are turning inward more now cause the world's got in such a weird, crazy
state. I think its making people think more about their life and what it is really that they
are doing. And how do we interact with a world that's going crazy? It's a very important
time.
- Dave Davies
» The book that I'm writing - it's to do with my life as a musician and writer and the
spiritual side of my life.
- Dave Davies
» For me, music and life are all about style.

- Miles Davis
» The fans have been really incredible everywhere we've been. You want to make sure
you put on the best concert of your life to show them how appreciative you are.
- Jonathan Davis
» I've never made the first move in my whole life - I'm too scared. I couldn't kiss
someone first. I'm extremely shy. I'm, like, so shy that actually... it's very painful what
I'm going to say, but I don't think I've ever been with someone I really loved, because the
people I really cared for, I didn't have, you know, the nerve to go after.
- Julie Delpy
» I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from
an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our
differences.
- John Denver
» I would make my job a work of art. I would like whatever it is that I'm doing -
everyone's experience of me, everyone's interaction with me, everyone's discussion,
conversation, relationship with me - [to be] an event within which they get to see who
they are. I would make of my life a work of art.
- John Denver
» I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The
only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.
- Johnny Depp
» The fact that I am the dad is the most surprising thing. I love my family very much.
And here's the part where I become the cliche father: I have never in my life thought it
was possible to feel such deep love, such an incredible connection to this amazing little
human being. She's an angel.
- Johnny Depp
» The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple
life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child
there.
- Johnny Depp
» You use your money to buy privacy because during most of your life you aren't allowed
to be normal.
- Johnny Depp
» If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life
you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
- Rene Descartes
» Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build
meaning into a life that has none.
- Richard M. DeVos
» The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with an
upward look. This is an exciting world. It's cram-packed with opportunity. Great
moments wait around every corner.
- Richard M. DeVos
» Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for
life; education is life itself.
- John Dewey
» Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

- John Dewey
» Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers
in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and
unique meaning.
- John Dewey
» One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all
about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road,
you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.
- Mike DeWine
» Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in
society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in
distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
- Princess Diana
» So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.
- Princess Diana
» I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some
good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with
as an actor.
- Leonardo DiCaprio
» If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most
people.
- Leonardo DiCaprio
» The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of
your life and when you are finished what you know is that you would have benefited
more by going into banking.
- Philip K. Dick
» There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

- Charles Dickens
» I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

- Emily Dickinson
» I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a
name.
- Emily Dickinson
» Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which
perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to
thee of no price at all.
- Emily Dickinson
» The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which
self-respect springs.
- Joan Didion
» Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night
when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?
- Joan Didion
» Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.

- Ani Difranco
» As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go

through life like a plankton net.
- Annie Dillard
» Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and
beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of
no importance whatsoever.
- Isak Dinesen
» Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst,
or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of
our wine.
- Isak Dinesen
» I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know
that life is a complex matter.
- Walt Disney
» As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best
information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
» Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a
prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge,
wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this
wondrous age of change and progress.
- Benjamin Disraeli
» King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British
nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
- Benjamin Disraeli
» Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to
know when to forego an advantage.
- Benjamin Disraeli
» Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

- Benjamin Disraeli
» One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
» Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.
- Benjamin Disraeli
» The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

- Benjamin Disraeli
» The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.
- Benjamin Disraeli
» In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that
of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very
intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
- E. L. Doctorow
» We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers wombs, we are close prisoners all;
when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though
within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to
death.
- John Donne
» It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the
habits he has accumulated during the first half.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
» Life is like a B-picture script! It is that corny. If I had my life story offered to me to
film, I'd turn it down.
- Kirk Douglas
» The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
- Frederick Douglass
» On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long
as there is love.
- Henry Drummond
» You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly
lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
- Henry Drummond
» He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
- John Dryden
» My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a
field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus -- there being no past or
future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.
- David Duchovny
» My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way.

- Hilary Duff
» Absolutely committed to spending the rest of my life as a spokesman for the rights of
European Americans.
- David Duke
» I did picket one time, wore a swastika once in my life. I picketed William Kunstler at
Tulane University and that's the only instance in my life that I ever did that.
- David Duke
» A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail.
- John Foster Dulles
» If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He
would kill Himself.
- Alexandre Dumas
» One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are
the ones that never have it.
- Finley Peter Dunne
» It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily
renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.
- Emile Durkheim
» Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is
a form of slavery.
- Wayne Dyer
» Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
- Wayne Dyer
» Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over
and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
- Wayne Dyer
» At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.
- Bob Dylan
» It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

- Freeman Dyson
» Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God's
gifts. It is the mother of civilizations, of arts and of sciences.
- Freeman Dyson
» The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually
simple.
- Freeman Dyson
» Can you imagine? Finding out that you're going to be on two series [Baywatch and
Baywatch Nights] at one time? I said to myself, my life is never going to be the same
again.
- Donna D'Errico
» When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death.
It's more important than that.
- Duffy Daugherty
» A really interesting life has embraced everything from the most magnificent exultation
to the depths of tragedy. I would say that's tremendous experience. But I wouldn't say
enjoyment is an accurate summary of it.
- Marcia Davenport
» As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
- Leonardo DaVinci
» In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as
an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved
away into a representation.
- Guy Debord
» Women's Liberation calls it enslavement but the real truth about the sexual revolution is
that it has made of sex an almost chaotically limitless and therefore unmanageable realm
in the life of women.
- Midge Decter
» The enjoyment of life would be instantly gone if you removed the possibility of doing
something.
- Chauncey Depew
» Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as

having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it
does not have!
- Don A. Dillman
» How banal, yet irrefutable, is the assertion that [a person] is a mixture of the 'angelic'
and the 'demonic.' ... A true politician... can be neither... 'an angel' nor 'a demon... .'
[Politicians] cannot be so if [they are] to... negotiate with courage and skill on the razor's
edge between victory and defeat, life and death.
- Milovan Djilas
» Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.

- Milovan Djilas
» All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and
how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.
- Shannen Doherty
» Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn't follow that. I lived
my life as if I wasn't in the public eye. I thought, 'I'm young. I have the right to
experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that's my prerogative.'
- Shannen Doherty
» It pays in England to be a revolutionary and a bible-smacker most of one's life and then
come round.
- Lord Alfred Douglas
» The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.

- George Norman Douglas
» What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life
according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.
» What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial
sayings - they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them.
None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race and the man who
orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong.
» Change Management will be essential in all money matters. With profits from sugar
continuing to decline and with ecological, aesthetic and employment factors in the
industry all very relevant, our management of the change process will be critical to how
the ultimate decision we take in relation to sugar impacts upon our economy and our own
way of life here in St. Kitts & Nevis.
- Denzil Douglas
» A good deal happens in a man's life that he isn't responsible for. Fortunate openings
occur; but it is safe to remember that such breaks are occurring all the time, and other
things being equal, the advantage goes to the man who is ready.
- Lawrence Downs
» Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a
sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
- Margaret Drabble
» By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that
only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never
ourselves.
- Marie Dressler
» My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking
about it.
- Adam Duritz
» The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and
to create; to create life in that isolation from life.
- Eleanora Duse
» I learned everything that I know about comedy and about show business and a lot about
life from Carl Reiner.
- Dick Van Dyke
» Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

- Amelia Earhart
» I have never been convinced throughout my life that one needs to be imitating others.
- Shirin Ebadi
» If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
- Meister Eckhart
» If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
» A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements
and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also
against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
- Umberto Eco
» Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a
life-insurance company.
- Arthur Eddington
» A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To
suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a
terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful,
or mortal.
- Mary Baker Eddy
» Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college
degree.
- Marian Wright Edelman
» Service is what life is all about.

- Marian Wright Edelman
» I believe that when someone crosses over, regardless how we choose to define them
(negative, positive) they are met by other friends, relatives, energies, help them
understand the life and lessons they learned, the experiences they have shared with others
and the feelings they've shared with others.
- John Edward
» An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in

short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no
limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
- Charles Edwards
» I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people.
- John Edwards
» We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to
talk about but the weather.
- Barbara Ehrenreich
» From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When
I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit
more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I
would not follow orders.
- Adolf Eichmann
» Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders
is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need
to think.
- Adolf Eichmann
» A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the
labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the
same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
- Albert Einstein
» Do you believe in immortality? No, and one life is enough for me.
- Albert Einstein
» How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what
purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from
daily life that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
» I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for
the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
» I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical
basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way
and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth,
Goodness, and Beauty.
- Albert Einstein
» Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all people are
recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until
then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as
civilized.
- Albert Einstein
» One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as
the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure
in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the
community.
- Albert Einstein
» Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

- Albert Einstein
» Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been

contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one,
best both for the body and the mind.
- Albert Einstein
» The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
- Albert Einstein
» The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

- Albert Einstein
» Why does this applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so
little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make
sensible use of it.
- Albert Einstein
» Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
- Albert Einstein
» I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who
have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to
use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
» Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new
hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state
and wish it well.
» The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall
what has happened when there is no rule of law.
» There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way
they were.
» Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do.
The work I was pouring out did not come from any real, personal life experience; this
was all the residue of the accumulation of Rafael Sabatini, O. Henry, all the short-story
writers that I'd been reading.
- Will Eisner
» I've spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely
because of historical reasons.
- Will Eisner
» But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the
essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased,
degraded man.
- George Eliot
» Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of
pain are music for his banquet.
- George Eliot
» Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of
one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with
worldly annoyances.
- George Eliot
» The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the
angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
- George Eliot
» There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one
knows.
- George Eliot
» What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
» What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
- George Eliot
» What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

- George Eliot
» What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of
a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with
each other in primitive mortal needs?
- George Eliot
» As things are, and as fundamentally they must always be, poetry is not a career, but a
mug's game. No honest poet can ever feel quite sure of the permanent value of what he
has written: He may have wasted his time and messed up his life for nothing.
- T. S. Eliot
» I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a
certain age one stands still and stagnates.
- T. S. Eliot
» I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

- T. S. Eliot
» We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow
through us, to be our breath, our inspiration; to breathe with them, mobile and soft in the
limberness of our bodies, in our agility, our ability, as it were, to dance, and yet to stand
upright.
- T. S. Eliot
» Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in
knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
- T. S. Eliot
» Birth. That's when I started penning my soul. Seriously, there was no transition. Only
the natural process, unfolding and growth of my evolution. Everything I do in life is one
hundred percent heartfelt at the onset... or onslaught, as the case may be.
- Kim Elizabeth
» I appreciate all of the attention I get in my career. I am a loner and live a rather
secluded life so sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but I am always very appreciative of
everything, and honored.
- Kim Elizabeth
» Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet
you with eternal nothingness.
- Kim Elizabeth
» Roaming through the jungle of oohs and ahs, searching for a more agreeable noise, I
live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps
and flats.
- Duke Ellington
» The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your
own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize
that you control your own destiny.
- Albert Ellis
» Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no
mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
- Henry Ellis
» However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of
risks.
- Henry Ellis
» It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more
difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less
acted it.
- Henry Ellis
» Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
- Henry Ellis
» Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how
to understand sex.
- Henry Ellis
» The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human
being's functions and activities. . . . A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when
we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship.
- Henry Ellis
» I take away something from every role. I'm still learning and that's what life is about.
- Cary Elwes
» A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
» All life is an experiment.

» As soon as there is life there is danger.

» Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with
money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
» Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
» Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is
under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
» Every principle is a war-note. Whoever attempts to carry out the rule of right and love
and freedom must take his life in his hand.
» The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be

compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
» There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the
imagination.
» They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who
does not every day surmount a fear.
» This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this
temporal life Depends upon one's actions.
» To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have
succeeded.
» Time is life itself, and life resides in the human heart.

- Michael Ende
» There is great meaning in life for those who are willing to journey.
- Jim England
» My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the
potential to be comic stories the next.
- Nora Ephron
» Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
» A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without
servility to mobs or monarchs.
- Epicurus
» It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is
impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life.
- Epicurus
» Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is
the possession of friendship.
- Epicurus
» Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more
passion than reason -you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he
confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the
passions.
- Desiderius Erasmus
» No one is happy all his life long.

- Euripides
» The greatest pleasure of life is love.

- Euripides
» There is just one life for each of us: our own.

- Euripides
» Although we will both die, and life is utterly meaningless, my time is vastly more
important than yours.
- Stephen Evans
» I'm not a Sundance guy either. I've never had applause lasting over two minutes in my
life but we had a 17-minute standing ovation.
- Robert Evans
» If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That
quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be
a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
- Chris Evert
» It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not.
But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular
relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
- Eknath Easwaran
» The life of a religious might be compared to the building of a cathedral once a firm
foundation has been laid, the building rises slowly.
- Margaret Wyvill Ecclesine
» The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it
were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was
dying of tuberculosis.
- Leon Edel
» The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade
into the inner house of life.
- Leon Edel
» Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much
more sobering and enlightening experience.
- Michael Eisner
» Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go
the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does.
- Stanley Elkin
» A novel is not just a work of art: It is somehow a work of life as well.

- George P. Elliott
» We don't know anything about racism. We've never experienced it. If words can make a
difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every
day of your life?
- Jane Elliott
» Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
- Erik H. Erikson
» You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one
is meant to go through.
- Gloria Estefan
» The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life
and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.
- Melissa Etheridge
» Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the
anguished disappointment of his hopes.
- Euripedes
» Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
- Richard L. Evans
» For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves
filed.
- Clifton Paul Fadiman
» My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life
and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two
days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
- Dakota Fanning
» That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is
Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three
years older than me.
- Dakota Fanning
» I do have the ability to explore life and to be over the moon at the smallest thing - a few
pints and a craic in the pub and I'm in heaven. But I have a melancholy side to me as
well. Acting allows me to feel things, it kind of buys me human experience. And I don't
mean this as acting as higher cause, because it's not, but it does kind of have a higher
awareness emotionally.
- Colin Farrell
» Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of
help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.
- William Feather
» For the life of me, I don't understand what honest motive there is in putting this in front
of this body to philosophically debate marriage on a constitutional amendment that is not
going to happen, and which is enormously divisive in all of our communities.
- Dianne Feinstein
» I've been living with the minor second all my life and I finally found a way to handle it.
- Morton Feldman
» Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures
behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's
the way baseball is.
- Bob Feller
» Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover
until death.
- Edna Ferber
» I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.
- Joanna Field
» You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
- Henry Fielding
» If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.

- W. C. Fields
» A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast
to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life
Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his
growing farm.
- James Thomas Fields
» Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies
sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and
education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too.
- Suzanne Fields
» Most of the debate over the cultures of death and life is about process. The debate
focuses on the technology available to determine how we prolong life and how and when
we end it.
- Suzanne Fields
» The world witnessed the pope's suffering at the same time Terri Schiavo's food-and-
water feeding tubes were removed, making us all acutely aware of the moral and spiritual
debates we must confront to plumb the mystery of life and death. Such moral debates
must continue, if we want to resist the slippery slope that would take us where none
wants to go.
- Suzanne Fields
» I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

- Ernst Fischer
» If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get
out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we
would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
» Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.
- Geoffrey Fisher
» Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet.
What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools
and bores.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
» The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end,
followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
» The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by
one.
- Edward Fitzgerald
» The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather
those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and
the promise of future accomplishments.
- Gustave Flaubert
» My vision for Kentucky is a Commonwealth where there is so much economic

opportunity, and our quality of life is so high, that people who are born here can stay
here, and people who aren't fortunate enough to be born in Kentucky, can look forward to
locating here.
- Ernie Fletcher
» Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of
pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
- Margot Fonteyn
» The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what
they most enjoy.
- Malcolm Forbes
» There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much
of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better
as a result.
- Steve Forbes
» The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right
and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.
- Gerald R. Ford
» Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps
learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
- Henry Ford
» As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

- Henry Ford
» Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three
times a week.
- Whitey Ford
» Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
- Richard Ford
» There's a lot to be said for doing what you're not supposed to do, and the rewards of
doing what you're supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent,
which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the
building is built.
- Richard Ford
» My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
- George Foreman
» We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is
waiting for us.
- E. M. Forster
» I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a
world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
» No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it
is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life
ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
» The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm
of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final
formulation of spiritual truth.
» You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian
life in a democratic world.
- Gene Fowler
» As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as
thy thoughts so shall thy life be.
- Emmet Fox
» The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as
we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.
- Emmet Fox
» Be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations wherever you come;
that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them; then you
will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone; whereby
in them you may be a blessing, and make the witness of God in them to bless you.
- George Fox
» Left to my own imagination, I could never have composed a scenario that was
anywhere as interesting as my life has been: starting out as an eager altar boy, a good Boy
Scout, a relatively docile Dominican brother and priest, receiving an advanced degree in
spirituality, teaching bishops and many others around the world about our Western
spiritual tradition, and then ending up being expelled from the Dominican order.
- Matthew Fox
» It is ironic that in the same year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of
DNA, some would have us ban certain forms of DNA medical research. Restricting
medical research has very real human consequences, measured in loss of life and
tremendous suffering for patients and their families.
- Michael J. Fox
» Nobody would choose to have a disease visited upon them. Still, Parkinson's forced me
to make a fundamental life decision: adopt a siege mentality - or embark upon a life
journey.
- Michael J. Fox
» All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind
us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
- Anatole France
» It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a
boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is
not estimable.
- Anatole France
» I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of

view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference.
Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.
- Robert Frank
» All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with
which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution
was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
- Felix Frankfurter
» I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I
think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and
noble heritage.
- Felix Frankfurter
» Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
- Viktor E. Frankl
» Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own
life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
- Viktor E. Frankl
» Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a
concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his
life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement
it.
- Viktor E. Frankl
» For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to
hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific
meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
- Viktor E. Frankl
» Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must
recognize that it is he who is asked.
- Viktor E. Frankl
» A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in
the grave.
- Benjamin Franklin
» Do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
» Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
» I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end:
requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of
the first.
- Benjamin Franklin
» So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we
must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may,
if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die
not worth a grout at last.
- Benjamin Franklin
» We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness
and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to
making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.
- John Hope Franklin
» One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows
us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and
mind and tongue and tear.
- Marilyn French
» The goal of all life is death.

- Sigmund Freud
» You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are
bouncing.
- Kinky Friedman
» September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose.
And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to
ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.
- Bill Frist
» Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The
most important product of his effort is his own personality.
- Erich Fromm
» There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of
his powers.
- Erich Fromm
» Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on
a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which
life implies.
- Erich Fromm
» A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body -
the wishbone.
- Robert Frost
» Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over
your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not
against: with.
- Robert Frost
» Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
- Robert Frost
» Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
- Robert Frost
» Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

- Robert Frost
» Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
- Robert Frost
» The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a
book side for everything.
- Robert Frost
» The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of
life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a
momentary stay against confusion.
- Robert Frost
» The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take
a hint when a hint isn't intended.
- Robert Frost
» Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from
one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing
and oar to oar.
- Robert Frost
» I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a

corner and run into it for the first time.
- Christopher Fry
» In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just

turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
- Christopher Fry
» Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life
and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
- Northrop Frye
» Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and
paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
- Robert Fulghum
» I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real
test.
- Robert Fulghum
» The examined life is no picnic.

- Robert Fulghum
» Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart;
that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public
and private honor become identical.
- Margaret Fuller
» It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations
about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.
- Agnetha Faltskog
» Out of disbelief in God we have impudently assumed that all of life is now subject to
our own will. And the disasters that have come from willing what cannot be willed have
not at all brought us to some modesty about our presumptions.
- Leslie Farber
» I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully
as possible... and enjoying everything in between.
- Mia Farrow
» I think I value things more correctly. I hope I look at my life in a way that makes sense.
- Oded Fehr
» The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to
work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
- Oded Fehr
» It did not feel like something that was going to take over my life and destroy it. It felt
like a subtle flower instead of a manipulative demon. That's the mystery of heroin.
- Corey Feldman
» Modern life is confusing - no Ms take about it.

- Geraldine A. Ferraro
» It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking
up, another falls to pieces.
- Helen Fielding
» I think of myself as being a relatively intelligent man who is open to a lot of different
things and I think that questioning our purpose in life and the meaning of existence is
something that we all go through at some point.
- Laurence Fishburne
» Oh, the secret life of man and woman -dreaming how much better we would be than we
are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been
unexploited to its fullest.
- Zelda Fitzgerald
» She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.
- Janet Flanner
» The star had to sing about those beginnings and the other things he shared with people
from those beginnings: simple, everyday problems of life and frustration and mainly
miseries of the heart and the troubles that caused.
- Chet Flippo
» Life is just a bowl of cherries, dont take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of
cherries, so live and laugh and laugh at love, love a laugh, laugh and love.
- Bob Fosse
» I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To
deny it would just be foolish.
- Johnathan Frakes
» When I was just acting on the show, I learned my lines, went to sleep, then woke up
and went to work. Now it's sort of become an obsession. I like the success. I'm thrilled
with the way things have gone-but my life was simpler 10 years ago.
- Johnathan Frakes
» What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make
life only bearable.
- Sam Francis
» Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are:
precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake,
which, at least, others can learn from.
- Al Franken
» The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport,
and maybe in life itself.
- Dawn Fraser
» I didn't know the full facts of life until I was 17. My father never talked about his work.
- Martin Freud
» I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel pressed and tense almost every day of my
life about something or other. And I think it's the one thing, as I look into people's eyes,
that I think I share with almost everybody.
- William Friedkin
» It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with
your life that counts.
- Millard Fuller
» The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great, and they know I
know it.
- Clark Gable
» In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the
comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
» When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living
life as it is without wishing it to become something different.
- John Galsworthy
» Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful.
Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.
- Mohandas Gandhi
» I want to see India free in my life-time. But God may not consider me fit enough to see
the dream of my life fulfilled. Then I shall quarrel, not with Him but with myself.
- Mohandas Gandhi
» In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive
and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest
after Truth.
- Mohandas Gandhi
» Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it
fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is
beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.
- Mohandas Gandhi
» My life is my message.
- Mohandas Gandhi
» My life is one indivisible whole, and all my activities run intoone another, and they all
have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind.
- Mohandas Gandhi
» Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound
education.
- Mohandas Gandhi
» The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must
languish when we give all our thought to the body.
- Mohandas Gandhi
» There is more to life than increasing its speed.

- Mohandas Gandhi
» To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life
is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul the dweller in the body.
- Mohandas Gandhi
» The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways
of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.
- Greta Garbo
» They think my life is glamourous. It's not true. I obviously get to come in and do radio
interviews. That's the glamour. But other than that, I eat and sleep and that's it. Eat, sleep
and do shows.
- Adam Garcia
» Everything I do in my life is very instinctual and in the moment. If I'm attracted to

something, that's it. If I have reservations, those don't change till they're resolved. My
first impression is how I go.
- Andy Garcia
» Leaders can express the values that hold the society together. Most important, they can
conceive and articulate goals that life people out of their petty preoccupations, carry them
above the conflicts that tear a society apart, and unite them in the pursuit of objectives
worthy of their best efforts.
- John W. Gardner
» Elektra is larger than life and wears her sexuality on her sleeve. So I was wearing
clothes that were 100 per cent sexy. And just giving in to that.
- Jennifer Garner
» A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.

- Elizabeth Gaskell
» An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

- Jose Ortega y Gasset
» In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers,
and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.
» Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they markour limitations and our
bounds. Life is a pretty thing unless itis moved by the indomitable urge to extend its
boundaries.
» I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life
to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting
where you're giving it away.
- Bill Gates
» As an adolescent I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials,
that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I
would have the occasion to do so.
- Charles de Gaulle
» Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue
they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another.
- John Gay
» I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living,
it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and
that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
- Theodor Geisel
» Still, I'm not interested in challenges. All my life I've kept away from challenges-do
you understand?
- Uri Geller
» If you keep working you'll last longer and I just want to keep vertical. I'd hate to spend
the rest of my life trying to outwit an 18-inch fish.
- Harold S. Geneen
» Novels were designed to entertain, and those of us who wish to keep the art form alive
need to keep this in mind. To aim for lofty literature instead of aiming for a good story
with real characters who grow and develop and a setting that's brought to life is... like
putting the varnish on the canvas first.
- Elizabeth George
» The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One
of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the
game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no
deal for reinstatement.
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
» There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I
would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
» All my life I had wanted to go into films so when the actual situation arose I decided
yes I would.
- Barry Gibb
» Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you
bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what
happens.
- Kahlil Gibran
» At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old
age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my
ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble
removing.
- Andre Gide
» I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more
to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
- Andre Gide
» The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
- Andre Gide
» The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that
logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
- Andre Gide
» Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
- Brendan Gill
» The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are
constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a
journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.
- Brendan Gill
» I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-
do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.
- Nikki Giovanni
» You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.
- Lillian Gish
» It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.

- William E. Gladstone
» Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his
humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan,
among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.
- William E. Gladstone
» No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
- Ellen Glasgow
» Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
- Ellen Glasgow
» When I first arrived in Los Angeles I became a little bogged down in the whole success
thing. Now I'm at a place in my life and career where I just want to work. It's what I do
and it makes me very happy.
- John Glover
» The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life.
Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to
render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very
start; the cinema doesn't.
- Jean-Luc Godard
» If books were Persian carpets, one would not look only at the outer side. because it is
the stitch that makes a carpet wear, gives it its life and bloom.
- Rumer Godden
» Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life
in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?
- Hermann Goering
» Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of
socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism.
Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal,
the synthesis - German National Socialism.
- Hermann Goering
» A useless life is an early death.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
» All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
» An unused life is an early death.

» Every step of life shows much caution is required.

» He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
» It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life
blessed.
» People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life
is not adequate to their abilities.
» This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who
conquer them each day anew.
» Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.
» To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite
of distances or thoughts expressed - that can make life a garden.
» We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to
use the options in the rules governing them.
» What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

» What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

» What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

» Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth,
invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own
hopes, its own desires.
» The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and
started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he
stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.
- William Golding
» Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the
child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one
another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
- Emma Goldman
» The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the
most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
- Emma Goldman
» You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
- Oliver Goldsmith
» The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.
- Samuel Goldwyn
» Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.
- Mikhail Gorbachev
» I've never been bored in my life working. A lot of people get bored after five minutes.
They want to go home and pick up their check. That's never been the case for me. I'm
always the first to arrive and the last to leave because I truly enjoy what I'm doing. That's
why I've been in show business for so long-I love it!
- Gale Gordon
» So much of my life is spent just focused on driving race cars.

- Jeff Gordon
» When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
- Maxim Gorky
» Nothing exists except by virtue of a disequilibrium, an injustice. All existence is a theft

paid for by other existences; no life flowers except on a cemetery.
- Remy de Gourmont
» Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

- Baltasar Gracian
» The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I
have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help
me.'
- Billy Graham
» There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you
into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
- Martha Graham
» I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I
don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.
- Ulysses S. Grant
» Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter
how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.
- Amy Grant
» For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.
- Amy Grant
» I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as
Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things
in life happened.
- Amy Grant
» I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of
whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I
wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.
- Amy Grant
» I had the great advantage of a mother who used to tell me the most beautiful years of a
woman's life are ages 35 to 45.
- Amy Grant
» The hard times are several years behind me now. This is probably the most peaceful
stretch of life I've known as an adult.
- Amy Grant
» Well, I do know that some of the most rewarding, exciting twists in my life are things I
never anticipated'such as falling into a music career by accident. I made a tape for my
mom and dad; without my knowing it, a friend who had some connections in music
called a record company and played it over the phone to them. And then all of a sudden, I
was on this path.
- Amy Grant
» Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and

improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities.
- Chuck Grassley
» The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money
without earning it.
- Horace Greeley
» By 1975, all this had happened: birth control wasn't wrong, premarital sex wasn't
wrong, priests leaving the priesthood wasn't wrong, nuns leaving the religious life wasn't
wrong. You didn't really have to go to mass every Sunday. You didn't have to go to
confession before receiving communion every time. All of these things, which they never
really understood and they didn't like, were just swept away.
- Andrew Greeley
» I think that the core doctrines of Christianity-the incarnation, the resurrection, life after
death-these are as strong as ever. In fact, the belief in life after death has increased in this
century.
- Andrew Greeley
» If we get you in the early years of your life and we fill your head with all of the
Catholic stories, then it's very hard for you to stop being Catholic. Catholics are Catholics
because they like being Catholic.
- Andrew Greeley
» What's more important? Life after death or birth control? What is more important?
God's forgiving love or premarital sex?
- Andrew Greeley
» It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and
family.
- Philip Green
» As the leader of the Catholic Church, the Holy Father planted seeds of hope in the
hearts of millions, helping bring entire nations to the table of peace, and delivering them
from tyranny. His ministry to the poor and oppressed was an example to us all, and
inspired legions to pursue a life of faith and service. It is with heavy hearts that we say
farewell to Pope John Paul II, our pilgrim of peace.
- Mark Green
» There's an old saying that the only sure things in life are death and taxes. Well, in its
never-ending appetite for more of your hard-earned income, the government has not only
embraced that old saying, it's taken it a step further. Under the current tax code, Uncle
Sam treats death as another chance to raid your savings, taking money that should go to
your family and loved ones.
- Mark Green
» Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us.
We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of
them.
- Julian Green
» Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always
long enough to get there.
- Julian Green
» At the end of what is called the sexual life the only love which has lasted is the love
which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has
accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire
for companionship.
- Graham Greene
» It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell
of all, oneself.
- Graham Greene
» We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

- Graham Greene
» America will tolerate the taking of a human life without giving it a second thought. But
don't misuse a household pet.
- Dick Gregory
» To bare our souls is all we ask, to give all we have to life and the beings surrounding
us. Here the nature spirits are intense and we appreciate them, make offerings to them -
these nature spirits who call us here - sealing our fate with each other, celebrating our
love.
- Alex Grey
» I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least
all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who
write them. Critics should find meaningful work.
- John Grisham
» I think that the temptation to feel that your entire life has been wasted must be very
great for a lot of Cubans.
- Alma Guillermoprieto
» The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not
knowing what comes next.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
» It also is true that some ideas naturally work themselves out over a longer period of
time than a single human life can encompass.
- James Gunn
» Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy.

- Dan Gable
» Wrestling has been a way of life with me day in and day out. I won't get too far away
from it. I might walk through the wrestling room once a week. I could go every day if I
wanted. But just walk through, make sure it's still there.
- Dan Gable
» I began to ration my writing, for fear I would dream through life as my father had done.
I was afraid I had inherited a poisoned gene from him, a vocation without a gift.
- Mavis Gallant
» She had the loaded handbag of someone who camps out and seldom goes home, or who
imagines life must be full of emergencies.
- Mavis Gallant
» Must I tell the story of my life again?

- John Garfield
» Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I
seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares
fall from me - I am happy.
- Hamlin Garland
» I've got my feet firmly on the ground, I can't see life changing too much. I reckon more
girls will talk to me at college and more people will look at me, but they know me for
who I am.
- Gareth Gates
» When I'm trusting and being myself as fully as possible, everything in my life reflects
this by falling into place easily, often miraculously.
- Shakti Gawain
» A crossing of a Rubicon in life history.

- Paul H. Gebhard
» The way I look at life - we're all on the Hindenberg, so there's no use in arguing over
the window seat.
- Richard Geni
» Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only
way to approach it is to make yourself some popcorn and enjoy the show.
- David Gerrold
» I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can
possibly be the same people who are for abortion? They are the same people who are for
animal rights, but they are not for the rights of the unborn.
- Jim Gibbons
» Throughout the course of history, this country has remained free, not because of movie
stars and liberal activists but because of brave men and women who hated war too - - but
lay down their lives so that we all may live in freedom. After all - What greater love hath
no man, that he lay down his life for his friend, but in this case a country.
- Jim Gibbons
» Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of
life itself.
- L. Wolfe Gilbert
» I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to
stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and
democratic society.
- Virginia Gildersleeve
» Andrea Chenier plays like an operatic historical novel of the French Revolution. It is
not an attempt at a biography of the real Chenier, but a dramatic fantasy based on his life
and poems, with a libretto by Puccini's frequent collaborator Luigi Illica.
- Umberto Giordano
» Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk
about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the
endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories?
- Todd Gitlin
» Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating
them until they become habits.
- Charles J. Givens
» Make your life a mission - not an intermission.

- Arnold H. Glasgow
» Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

- Arnold H. Glasow
» Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with
the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will
have been all of these.
- Bob Goddard
» It's the process of writing and life that matters... We are trying to become sane along
with our poems and stories.
- Natalie Goldberg
» Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we
die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
- Natalie Goldberg
» On the road to life there are many paths... some twist, some turn, some dip, some curve.
As long as you keep your focus, your destination is obtainable.
- Brenda Good
» In my many years of coaching, he is the most focused in terms of the important aspects
of his life and his goals. He is a giver, not a getter, and a product of two amazing parents.
- Wally Goodwin
» The life is a wonderful thing. You have to appreciate it NOW... because you never
know what is going to happen tomorrow.
- Ekaterina Gordeeva
» God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long.
Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased
yet to grant me for repentance.
- Patrick Gordon
» A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a
life.
- Bill Gothard
» Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

- Elizabeth Goudge
» I do like any kind of project that has both comedy and drama in it because in life you
don't have one day where everything is funny then the next day everything is dramatic.
- Topher Grace
» I don't talk about my personal life with the press.
- Topher Grace
» When I began to write Poldark I drew on this part of my life as in another dimension.
- Winston Graham
» Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.

- Gunther Grass
» Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become

the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever
life is governed by production quotas.
- Gunther Grass
» I loved the Godfather. I thought that was the best interpretation of our life that I've ever
seen. Godfather I and Godfather II-the other one stunk.
- Sammy Gravano
» There was a perception that life here was-I won't say gray, that's hard for me-but beige.
- Hanna Holborn Gray
» Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.
- Francine Du Plessix Gray
» Trio life has the wonderful advantage of not being alone, the pleasure of having success
with two other people and the solace when you don't have success.
- Bernard Greenhouse
» And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light and a striving evermore for these; and he is
dead, who will not fight; and who dies fighting has increase.
- Julian Grenfell
» If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when
I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice But be the usual selves that I have known. Weep if you
must, Parting is hell, But life goes on, So sing as well.
- Joyce Grenfell
» A writer should be joyous, an optimist... Anything that implies rejection of life is wrong
for a writer.
- George Gribbin
» Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a
great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone
else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
- Nanci Griffith
» God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and
out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and
therefore I could see God in everything.
- Bede Griffiths
» I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that
also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been
seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me.
- Bede Griffiths
» For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the
only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the
key to liberation in life.
- Stanislav Grof
» Can you imagine the Founding Fathers saying that the major source of authority in your
life can make you drop your pants and urinate as a condition of getting or keeping a job?
- Gene Guerrero
» Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.

- Adrienne Gusoff
» I'm going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a
big movie, if it has something to say, I will want to make it. I don't want to spend my life
wasting my time. If it's a big movie, I want to do it. If it's a small movie, I want to do it.
- Jake Gyllenhaal
» If you're going to spend seven months of your life - for me seven months, for Roland
Emmerich, 3, 4, 5 years of his life - doing something, I think you have to have something
to say.
- Jake Gyllenhaal
» Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals,
not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher
level.
- Alexander Haig
» The world awaits Beijing's hosting of the 2008 Olympics, an occasion which will bring
into the global spotlight the dramatic advances China is making in enhancing the quality
of life for its people.
- Alexander Haig
» Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective
toward which to work.
- George Halas
» There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell
apart.
- Deidre Hall
» The only disability in life is a bad attitude.

- Scott Hamilton
» In the last analysis it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the
questions life puts to us.
- Dag Hammarskjold
» Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is
muddled? You are the one who must grow up.
- Dag Hammarskjold
» Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of
so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.
- Dag Hammarskjold
» A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct
result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his
life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally
inadequate.
- Christopher Hampton
» And if I don't express that, then what's my life worth?

- Herbie Hancock
» I'm looking at other sources for inspiration; feelings and developments that are
happening in human life itself.
- Herbie Hancock
» I'm looking less to musical sources for inspiration and broadening my scope beyond the
entertainment field and looking more into life itself. Life today.
- Herbie Hancock
» I've started something called the Rhythm of Life Foundation to encourage the
technological community to develop ideas and software that directly effect the
advancement of humanity.
- Herbie Hancock
» Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference.
- Herbie Hancock
» There's also an organization called the Rhythm of Life Organization or ROLO, which
was put together to further the use of technology in a more humanitarian way, using
technology to be a part of a tool set directed toward social issues and human issues, the
real kind of problems people face every day.
- Herbie Hancock
» When I discovered Buddhism, I realized that Buddhism agrees with that. Buddhism
adds something, too, which is that your life also never begins. It's eternal.
- Herbie Hancock
» When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never
ends.
- Herbie Hancock
» Yet with all the attraction that it has, our youth cannot long remain without feeling the
narrowness of simply a classification of the world. Life is not a thing of knowing only -
nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of
feeling and emotion.
- Learned Hand
» I am in absolutely the best shape of my life and ready to go. I am not nervous at all.
Physically and mentally, I have never felt better.
- Tonya Harding
» Pessimism... is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It
is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to
do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes
child's play.
- Thomas Hardy
» How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may
defeat you before you ever do anything about it. When you get discouraged or depressed,
try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you.
Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it - you create the
very atmosphere for defeat or victory.
- Franco Harris
» I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

- Jean Harris
» It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their
feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves,
and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
- Sydney J. Harris
» Middle Age is that perplexing time of life when we hear two voices calling us, one
saying, Why not? and the other, Why bother?
- Sydney J. Harris
» Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their
abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way
through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?
- Sydney J. Harris
» Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their
abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way
through life as complete strangers to ourselves.
- Sydney J. Harris
» There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.
- Richard Harris
» As footsteps tread a path of grace that lights the way ahead, the smile upon your Saintly
face across my life is spread.
- Brian Harris
» To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler,
more manageable aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists,
husbands, intellectuals - and critics of the Women's Movement.
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
» I think the popular music has gone truly weird. It's either cutesy-wutesy or it's hard,
nasty stuff. It's good that this has life again with the youth.
- George Harrison
» Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're
only very small and life flows on within you and without you.
- George Harrison
» Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -
friendship and learning.
- Jane Harrison
» Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness
induces hopelessness.
- B. H. Liddell Hart
» Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there,
it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all
through your life that it will.
- Josh Hartnett
» I'm looking forward to finding someone in life that I can be truly happy with and relate
to on all levels - someone I can bounce my stuff off. Right now, though, I'm not
searching for that. I couldn't possibly handle it at this point. But I still like knowing it will
be out there sometime later.
- Josh Hartnett
» The Federal government does not have any information about extraterrestrial life to
conceal, and there are no secret projects for me to investigate.
- Orrin Hatch
» Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps
hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find
sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
- Vaclav Havel
» Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic
law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
- Vaclav Havel
» I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human
nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've
created life in our own image.
- Stephen Hawking
» Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections
as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
» In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who
cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we
can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
- S. I. Hayakawa
» It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many
more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
- S. I. Hayakawa
» An actress's life is so transitory - suddenly you're a building.

- Helen Hayes
» Life would give her everything of consequence, life would shape her, not we. All we
were good for was to make the introductions.
- Helen Hayes
» Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those
who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for
eternity.
- Helen Hayes
» The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
- Helen Hayes
» I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere
borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.
- William Hazlitt
» The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
- William Hazlitt
» The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves
by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends.
- William Hazlitt
» They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.
- William Hazlitt
» The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it,
know life without intimacy to be impossible.
- Carolyn Heilbrun
» A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven.
An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking
the name of the Lord in vain - then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for
eternity. Is that the system?
- Robert A. Heinlein
» One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over
the good fortune of others.
» The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
» The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life
suffers.
- Arthur Helps
» All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
- Ernest Hemingway
» Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he
died that distinguish one man from another.
- Ernest Hemingway
» I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
- Ernest Hemingway
» If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go
for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
- Ernest Hemingway
» There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have,
must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are simple things, and because it takes a
man's life to know them, the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the
only heritage he has to leave.
- Ernest Hemingway
» My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been
difficult.
- Florence Henderson
» On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic
questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.
- Arthur Henderson
» My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
- Jimi Hendrix
» The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
- Jimi Hendrix
» Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me
liberty, or give me death!
- Patrick Henry
» It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes
you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.
- Katharine Hepburn
» Without discipline, there's no life at all.

- Katharine Hepburn
» Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
- Robert Herrick
» Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the
economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has
no importance in relation to the general development.
- Alexander Herzen
» The greatest problem is not how to continue but how to exalt our existence. The call for
a life beyond the grave is presumptuous, if there is no cry for eternal life prior for our
deacending to the grave. Eternity is not perpetual future but perpetual presence. He has
planted in us the seed of eternal life. The world to come is not only a hereafter but also a
herenow.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
» I've literally, in my entire life I've had two guys come up to me and ask me out. Other
than that I have had to go and try to like spend time with them, or sort of start the
conversation, basically like spell it out in a Sharpie, like, you know?
- Jennifer Love Hewitt
» All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the
workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
- Napoleon Hill
» I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.
- Henry Hill
» There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you
believe that you are somehow above normality. I think that is a mistake to start believing
that. But, at the same time, it is important to be confident.
- Damon Hill
» The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

- Hippocrates
» Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

- Alfred Hitchcock
» City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are
prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better
life ahead.
- Edward Hoagland
» There is a time of life somewhere between the sullen fugues of adolescence and the
retrenchments of middle age when human nature becomes so absolutely absorbing one
wants to be in the city constantly, even at the height of summer.
- Edward Hoagland
» There are situations in life to which the only satisfactory response is a physically
violent one. If you don't make that response, you continually relive the unresolved
situation over and over in your life.
- Russell Hoban
» No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of
violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
- Thomas Hobbes
» Caring for our seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who walked
before us have given so much and made possible the life we all enjoy.
- John Hoeven
» Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission
and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story
- a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.
- Eric Hoffer
» Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites,
whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-
forgetting.
- Eric Hoffer
» The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy;
but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character
undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds
mawkishness.
- Eric Hoffer
» The only index by which to judge a government or a way of life is by the quality of the
people it acts upon. No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs
decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion- it is an evil
government.
- Eric Hoffer
» The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easily remembered. A life
full of turns, achievements, disappointments, surprises, and crises is a life full of
landmarks. The empty life has even its few details blurred, and cannot be remembered
with certainty.
- Eric Hoffer
» As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play
one round.
- Ben Hogan
» I'm not an aspiring young actor, I'm a storyteller who made it late in life and I'm
therefore an inspiration to everyone who thinks that at 23 if you're not in the Backstreet
Boys then you're never gonna make it.
- Paul Hogan
» You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold
still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
- Billie Holiday
» Art imitates life. Life imitates high school.

- Brad Holland
» Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and
pleasures of life are in bad air.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
» I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the
passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
» I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my
life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.
» It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.
» Life and language are alike sacred. Homicide and verbicide - that is, violent treatment
of a word with fatal results to its legitimate meaning, which is its life - are alike
forbidden.
» Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then
closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.
» Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was
given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
» As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and
action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
» Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

- Lou Holtz
» If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do
things - you don't have enough goals.
- Lou Holtz
» It would probably kill me to have such a thing appear. The most interesting part of my
life is of no concern to the public.
- Winslow Homer
» I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim
or to someone else's ignorance.
- Bell Hooks
» I cannot forget that, just as my life was touching its fullest flower, love came and
destroyed it all in a single hour.
- Laurence Hope
» He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
- Horace
» The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
- Horace
» Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still
remains a very effective therapist.
- Karen Horney
» Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.
- Doug Horton
» We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
- Doug Horton
» I would lay down my life to defend any one of the States from aggression, which
endangered peace or threatened its institutions. I could do more for the union, but I wish
to do more; for the destruction of the union would be the destruction of all th
- Sam Houston
» I would lay down my life to defend any one of the States from aggression, which
endangered peace or threatened its institutions. I could do more for the union, but I wish
to do more; for the destruction of the union would be the destruction of all the States. A
stab in the heart is worse then a cut in a limb, for this may be healed.
- Sam Houston
» You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
- Vernon Howard
» One of the great things about being a director as a life choice is that it can never be
mastered. Every story is its own kind of expedition, with its own set of challenges.
- Ron Howard
» For Christians, the reason why it is ordinarily assumed that a marriage will go on till
death do us part has been that this advanced lesson in Charity which marriage opens into
is a long, a difficult one, and the life span that my spouse and I are allowed will certainly
not be nearly long enough to finish the lesson... I will have as much as I can do to learn
this advanced lesson well with one other person; a harem will only confuse my efforts.
- Thomas Howard
» All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
- Edgar Watson Howe
» When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
- Edgar Watson Howe
» What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard
to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
- John Howe
» Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
» Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

- Elbert Hubbard
» The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
» Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
- Langston Hughes
» Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
- Victor Hugo
» Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when
you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
- Victor Hugo
» The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves,
or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo
» The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves,
or rather in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo
» I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more
on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
- Wilhelm von Humboldt
» Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern
and make it new.
- Hubert H. Humphrey
» The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

- Hubert H. Humphrey
» I've spent a great deal of my life doing independent film, and that is partly because the
subject matter interests me and partly because that is the basis of the film industry. That's
where the filmmakers come from, it's where they start and sometimes its where they
should have stayed.
- John Hurt
» My mother's father drank and her mother was an unhappy, neurotic woman, and I think
she has lived all her life afraid of anyone who drinks for fear something like that might
happen to her.
- John Hurt
» Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or
anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads
too, of course.
- John Hurt
» Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.
- Anjelica Huston
» Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply
the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
- Aldous Huxley
» Every person who knows how to read has it in their power to magnify themselves, to
multiply the ways in which they exist, to make life full, significant, and interesting.
- Aldous Huxley
» Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

- Aldous Huxley
» Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to

suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as
wearisome and painful - if strenuously led - as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.
- Aldous Huxley
» The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his
life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one
must be an actor as well as a spectator.
- Aldous Huxley
» Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very
life of truth.
- Thomas H. Huxley
» For the first time in Ireland within my recollection, Catholic and Protestant, Unionist
and Nationalist, landlord and tenant, priest and parson, all work hand in hand in the
interest of Ireland's life and intellectuality.
- Douglas Hyde
» I cannot conceive a more acute pain in the power of sentiment to inflict than that which
I should feel if, after a life passed in England or the colonies or India, I were to come
back to my native mountains and find that the indifference or the actual discouragement
of our leaders had succeeded in destroying the language of my childhood.
- Douglas Hyde
» For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of
Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great
monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace.
- King Hussein I
» I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who
had said to me that he perceived his life as a link in a continuous chain of those who
served our nation and that he expected me to be a new and strong link in the same chain.
- King Hussein I
» I believe with all my heart that if a man is to give of his best he must live the
fundamental life of an ordinary man. One cannot hide behind a title or a position or a
throne. One can be proud of one's responsibilities, just as I am, but one cannot use titles
or position as a shield.
- King Hussein I
» I had realized from the outset that vanity was a fatal affliction and that the only life
worth adhering to, was one representing a journey of struggle in the service of exalted
values and noble aims, one that recognizes that every living soul will meet its destined
end, for which there always is a good account. When the time comes, no hour could be
postponed or brought forward.
- King Hussein I
» I have a simple philosophy about life and death. How easily it comes and how easily it
can end! What man can afford to waste time? At any moment death can claim anyone,
and when it does, death itself is unimportant. The only thing that matters is the work that
one has accomplished.
- King Hussein I
» I never was one of those ambitious people craving for expansion. I believe in God and
life after death. Each one of us lives his days according to the will of God. I believe also
in nations and that individuals' efforts should be dedicated for the good of nations and not
for idolizing persons.
- King Hussein I
» I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be
measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay
down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence.
- King Hussein I
» In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear
of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their
present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their
departure.
- King Hussein I
» The quality of life of the individual citizen is the ultimate yardstick by which to
measure the success of any government. Jordan's development record, though impressive
by many standards, was always hampered not only by the ongoing conflict, but also by
the scarcity of resources. Our answer was to invest in our most precious asset, the
individual citizen.
- King Hussein I
» O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine
Of life and passions, - sweeter days are thine!
- Helen Hunt Jackson
» I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
- Nathan Hale
» I only regret that I have one life to lose for my country.

- Nathan Hale
» I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.

- Nathan Hale
» I love the irony - I've spent over 400 hours of my life looking for comets, and haven't
found anything, and now, suddenly, when I'm not looking for one, I get one dumped in
my lap.
- Alan Hale
» The man who loves his country prefers its liberty to all other considerations, well
knowing that without liberty, life is a misery.
- Andrew Hamilton
» If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but
everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
» Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in
imminent danger?
- Sean Hannity
» Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
- Grace Hansen
» Senator, I am one of them. You do not seem to understand who I am. I am a black
woman, the daughter of a dining-car worker If my life has any meaning at all, it is that
those who start out as outcasts can wind up as being part of the system.
- Patricia Roberts Harris
» Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given
occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.
- Henry S. Haskins
» If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct,
your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
- Katharine Butler Hathaway
» Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied,
even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single
factor.
- Paul Hawken
» If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

- Louise L. Hay
» If you were happy every day of your life you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a
game show host.
- Gabriel Heatter
» The simple things, like how to hang a sentence together, how to write dialogue that
keeps the story moving - all of these had to be learned. In addition, it was during these
years that I was growing a life from which I could derive the basic ingredients of a good
story. Without the experiences I was stockpiling during those years, it would not have
been possible to produce the next two or three books.
- Richard Helms
» The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
» I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no
particular plan or destination in mind. An adventurous man, open to the concept of living
life in the moment.
- Jill Hennessy
» If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have
fewer imaginary ones.
- Don Herold
» It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

- Don Herold
» I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able
to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I
could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.
- Wolfgang Hildesheimer
» The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's
meaningless. If you do have imagination... you can make feast of straw.
- Jane Stanton Hitchcock
» There are a lot of things going on with my life right now that don't just have to do with
career. So I have a hard time making decisions about work. That's really a luxury
problem.
- Philip Seymour Hoffman
» I don't care who or what judges me, nothing's going to stop me from living my life how
I choose.
- Amanda Holden
» No matter what we want of life we have to give up something in order to get it.
- Raymond Holliwell
» For me, the most memorable adventures are still the perils that we face daily in life and
love, from the mundane to the meaningful. Where the comedy is often at our own
expense, but where the drama, even if painful, reminds us that we are living and feeling
here in the real time, with the ever-recurring possibility that this latest chapter will end
with new understanding, hope and perhaps even happiness.
- Rupert Holmes
» Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add
that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.
- Rupert Holmes
» I once had a small role in one of my own plays, a thriller which happened to become a
big hit on the West Coast. Its run was extended month after month and thus for over a
year I found myself living the life of a stage actor: eight shows a week, with only one day
off, a day dedicated solely to recovering from the five-show weekend I'd just turned in.
- Rupert Holmes
» I'd been a cult singer-songwriter generally well-regarded by some of the better vocalists
and journalists of the seventies. Suddenly, a mass audience perceived me as a troubadour
who'd dedicated his life to extolling the virtues of pineapple-based beverages.
- Rupert Holmes
» The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

- Winifred Holtby
» There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,'
meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to
do.
- Soichiro Honda
» Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of
infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.
- Sidney Hook
» I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was duty.
- Ellen Sturgis Hooper
» The artwork I've done for Obsidian has been a real joy to work on. I liked working on
the underground city piece. It forced me to work with a lot of perspective, as well as try
to get the day to day life of the people in the world... That and I got to draw a tough
looking woman.
- Fred Hooper
» Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have
lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
- Anthony Hopkins
» Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know
one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.
- Arthur Hoppe
» I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and
powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or
exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.
- Jean Houston
» I've always had the perspective that roles come into my life when I need them most and
sort of teach me lessons. The same can be true of films, films are released into society to
aid in a lesson, inspire people, comfort people.
- Bryce Dallas Howard
» My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit
down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are,
What is right ? What is just? What is for the public good?
- Joseph Howe
» Those who know me best well know that I would rather give the little leisure that a
laborious life affords to my books and my fireside, rather than to those bickerings and
disputes by which it is divided, and by which man is too often, without sufficient cause,
set in array against his fellow-man.
- Joseph Howe
» The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
- Eliot Hubbard
» If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.
- Shirley Hufstedler
» It is not easy to be a nun. It is a life of sacrifice and self-abnegation. It is a life against

nature. Poverty, chastity and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the
graces if you will pray for them. Pray that you may all become St Johns, lovers of Christ.
- Kathryn Hulme
» Your home is regarded as a model home, your life as a model life. But all this splendor,
and you along with it... it's just as though it were built upon a shifting quagmire. A
moment may come, a word can be spoken, and both you and all this splendor will
collapse.
- Henrik Ibsen
» Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many
millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to
enjoy any of my success.
- Vanilla Ice
» I really feel like I've been given a second chance and to see so many people coming out
to embrace my new sound is a blessing. And a lot of people, after seeing the VH1 special,
feel like they get to know me personally because my whole life has been a big
misconception about me personally.
- Vanilla Ice
» This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff
that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have
been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to
happen.
- Vanilla Ice
» School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As
much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared
undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
- Ivan Illich
» Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation
of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our
performance.
- William R. Inge
» Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life
unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.
- William R. Inge
» Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can
hope to improve theater.
- William R. Inge
» I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
» I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my

life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the
unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.
- Eugene Ionesco
» There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no

philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
- Eugene Ionesco
» Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really
sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so
that when I get a little old don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be.
- Jeremy Irons
» Half my life is an act of revision.

- John Irving
» If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to
live it.
- John Irving
» A woman's life is a history of the affections.

- Washington Irving
» A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.

- Washington Irving
» There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
» There was this idea, which felt almost like a conspiracy, that a writer in his 30s was
early in a writing life. But I realised you should think more in terms of the length and
timing of a footballer's career. Your best chance of producing a decent book comes
somewhere between 30 and 45, and I suddenly saw my life as a finite number of books.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
» What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the
writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become
much more public now.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
» When I got to 40 or so... I had the sense when I looked back over my life I would
actually see a mess of decisions, a few of which I had thought about, some of which I had
sort of stumbled on, and many that I had no control over whatsoever.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
» There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart
of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
- Charles Ives
» You should never blame the other woman, never. There is life after Kevin, and I'm
living it!
- Shar Jackson
» I tell ya, the easiest 14 hour day of my life was shooting those two scenes in OCEAN'S
11. Only an absolute idiot would turn down the opportunity to work with Steven
Soderbergh. If they need another cameo, I'm their huckleberry.
- Joshua Jackson
» I'm of the opinion that life doesn't always tie up neatly at the end of the episode.
- Joshua Jackson
» Maintaining a complicated life is a great way to avoid changing it.

- Elaine St. James
» I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I
want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing.
- Cheryl James
» The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.
- Gerald Jampolsky
» A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink
from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the
result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.
- William Jay
» I was lucky to be able to call Christopher Reeve a friend.His passion for life and for
improving the lives of all Americans serves an inspiration to all of us. He may have
played the character of Superman in the movies, but he lived the role of a superman
through his life.
- James Jeffords
» Censorship in any form is the enemy of creativity, since it cuts off the life blood of
creativity: ideas.
- Allan Jenkins
» I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it.
Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting
around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
- Bruce Jenner
» The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.
- John Jensen
» I think a lot of people think about the wrongs they did in life at some point. I can't make
amends for the reason I'm on death row because my life was in jeopardy, but I wish
things were different. But yes, I've done wrongs in life although there were petty things
and I have made my peace with God, as should most people.
- Lonnie Earl Johnson
» Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves-to break
our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.
- Stewart B. Johnson
» If I could wish for my life to be perfect, it would be tempting but I would have to
decline, for life would no longer teach me anything.
- Allyson Jones
» It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally
hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of
our hearts.
- K. T. Jong
» I have great admiration and respect for the men and women of the U.S. armed forces,
with whom I have worked closely and been embedded in Baghdad, Tikrit, and Mosul and
other places. As for my colleagues at CNN, I am enormously proud to have worked with
you, risking my life in the trenches with you.
- Eason Jordan
» No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the confines of
your head.
- Terry Josephson
» You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other
people want you to do and be, but are directed by your own inner desires.
- H. Stanley Judd
» Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to
ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what
he sees among the ruins.
- Franz Kafka
» The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter
and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
- Franz Kafka
» We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed
their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
- Abdul Kalam
» The best part of one's life is the working part, the creative part. Believe me, I love to
succeed... However, the real spiritual and emotional excitement is in the doing.
- Garson Kanin
» Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
- Immanuel Kant
» May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
- Immanuel Kant
» It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full
of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity
you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.
- Patrick Kavanagh
» There comes a point in your life when you realize how quickly time goes by, and how
quickly it has gone. Then it really speeds up exponentially. With that, I think you start to
put a lot of things into context; you start to see how huge the world is, and really, the
universe.
- Michael Keaton
» I want to resume the life of a shy person.

- Garrison Keillor
» Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
- Garrison Keillor
» Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a
little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and
my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
- Helen Keller
» Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men
as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright
exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
» When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life,
or in the life of another.
- Helen Keller
» Awake, my soul, and with the sun thy daily course of duty run. Cast off dull sloth, and
joyful rise to pay thy morning sacrifice. All praise to thee, who safe hast kept and hast
refreshed me while I slept! Grant, Lord, when I from death shall wake, I may of endless
life partake.
- Thomas Ken
» A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought
to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders
today - and in fact we have forgotten.
- John F. Kennedy
» All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first
thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on
this planet. But let us begin.
- John F. Kennedy
» I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on
other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.
- John F. Kennedy
» If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it.
All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.
- John F. Kennedy
» If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a
different religion.
- John F. Kennedy
» The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final
moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
- John F. Kennedy
» There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are
wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San
Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life is
unfair.
- John F. Kennedy
» Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the
savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
- Robert Kennedy
» My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
- Charles Kettering
» The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it
belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our
real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and
religion.
- John Maynard Keynes
» Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise;
Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
- Omar Khayyam
» That the Journal of the said Captain Kidd being violently taken from him in the Port of
St. Marie's in Madagascar, and his life many times being threatened to be taken away
from him by 97 of his men that deserted him there, he cannot give that exact Account he
otherwise could have done, but as far as his memory will serve is as followeth.
- William Kidd
» Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to
offer just because it might be considered dangerous.
- Nicole Kidman
» During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
- Soren Kierkegaard
» Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth
their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for
the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
- Soren Kierkegaard
» The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are
exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes,
which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
- Soren Kierkegaard
» Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man
practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him,
knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.
- Florence King
» Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

- Stephen King
» When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the
ground and yelled up to the heavens, Why god? Why me? and the thundering voice of
God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.
- Stephen King
» The men whom I have seen succeed best in life always have been cheerful and hopeful
men; who went about their business with a smile on their faces; and took the changes and
chances of this mortal life like men; facing rough and smooth alike as it came.
- Charles Kingsley
» I now see on the screen certain ways in which Gandhiji greets people, how he treats
every single individual in his life as somebody precious, valued and never never to be
humiliated, but uplifted and elevated.
- Ben Kingsley
» I think with those who are gifted to make epic cinema, the vision required, again, is that
the equation between the director and the story and the leading protagonists has to be one
of mathematical precision and balance and grace. It's not possible to put the epic sweep
of history that held Gandhi's life on screen unless the director himself has those qualities
in him or her.
- Ben Kingsley
» If your best friend has stolen your girlfriend, it does become life and death.
- Ben Kingsley
» It's very difficult to be objective about one's childhood because you have no perspective
on it. I have nothing to compare it with. The only way I can lead any kind of a
comparative life is to portray other men.
- Ben Kingsley
» The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your
brains and in your hands, wherever you go... It's one thing to carry your life wherever you
go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.
- Barbara Kingsolver
» 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.
» Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your
teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive
down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.
» There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire
to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
- Henry A. Kissinger
» The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether
they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.
- Paul Klee
» There is an immutable conflict at work in life and in business, a constant battle between
peace and chaos. Neither can be mastered, but both can be influenced. How you go about
that is the key to success.
- Philip Knight
» Exeter was, I suspect, more crucial in my life than in the lives of most members of my
class, and conceivably, than in the lives of almost anyone else who ever attended the
school.
- John Knowles
» The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is
making us well again.
- Edward Koch
» We need to fight the plague of the uninsured the way we have fought other threats to
our way of life and our basic values.
- Herb Kohl
» I believe in advertisement and media completely. My art and my personal life are based
in it. I think that the art world would probably be a tremendous reservoir for everybody
involved in advertising.
- Jeff Koons
» Boyfriends have to understand me and my needs. They have to know what I want out of
my life and about my strict regime. I go to bed at 10pm and not later. I separate my
professional and private lives.
- Anna Kournikova
» I don't know what better teenage life you could get than going around the world doing
what you love to do.
- Anna Kournikova
» Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education
on the Christmas tree of a child waiting outside the door to life do not realize how
unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of
life.
- Karl Kraus
» If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his
lies.
- Karl Kraus
» The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that
it has turned to advertising copy.
- Louis Kronenberger
» Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which
most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is
impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
- Joseph Wood Krutch
» As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't
have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your
position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
» For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest
spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.
» I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by
this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less
Hitlers.
» Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life
has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us
to learn from.
» I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists-neither takes life as it is. Any
tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
- Stanley Kubrick
» Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty
even in times of greatest distress.
- Milan Kundera
» The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and
dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
» A major league baseball team is a collection of 25 youngish men who have made the
major leagues and discovered that in spite of it, life remains distressingly short of ideal.
- Roger Kahn
» I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a
bunch of people.
- Dean Kamen
» Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate
like possessions.
- Stefan Kanfer
» A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows
and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people.
- Islom Karimov
» I'm happy I've been all my life with my nation, was respected and honored by my
nation, could be useful and help my people.
- Islom Karimov
» When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a
bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.
- Islom Karimov
» You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your
life story must be held in your own hand.
- Irene C. Kassorla
» I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any
interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as
cleanly as I can.
- Charlie Kaufman
» It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think
we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider
other people.
- Bob Keeshan
» My moms have taught me to be open to difference and live life honestly, even when it
is scary.
- Sol Kelley-Jones
» 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
» Think of war as a game of Russian roulette. It is a game of chance with your life as the
grand prize.
- Ramman Kenoun
» The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.
- Eli Khamarov
» Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence.

- Hazrat Inayat Khan
» Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life
I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
- Aga Khan III
» Corruption will now cease to be a way of life in Kenya.
- Mwai Kinaki
» The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily
bestowing fragrance upon the air.
- T. Starr King
» The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of
the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic
architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure.
- Grayson Kirk
» My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my
opinions.
- Eartha Kitt
» The life and legacy of Ronald Reagan so shifted the paradigm of the American
Presidency and the character of our nation that it becomes easy to overlook some of the
smaller, more personal changes he brought to his office.
- John Kline
» Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the
world today: how can peoples of different appearance... and dissimilar ways of life get
along peaceably together?
- Clyde Kluckhohn
» Don't take life too seriously. It's only a temporary condition.

- Bill Knapp
» My dad sacrificed many things in life for me. He abandoned a very promising and
lucrative career of an army officer just so that he could continue helping me with my
chess and accompanying me to tournaments.
- Alexandra Kosteniuk
» I'm proud of the fact that I made my way in life very rigorously. I was a bit too
stubborn when it came to certain things, which was unnecessary, like getting independent
from and leaving Germany.
- Thomas Kretschmann
» The meaning of life is not to be discovered only after death in some hidden, mysterious
realm; on the contrary, it can be found by eating the succulent fruit of the Tree of Life
and by living in the here and now as fully and creatively as we can.
- Paul Kurtz
» I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make
sense.
- Harold Kushner
» The man stands between life and death. The man thinks... The fish is mute.
expressionless. The fish doesn't think, because the fish knows everything. The fish knows
everything.
- Emir Kusturica
» I didn't mean to give you the impression that life at the cathedral is like Barchester
Towers as written by Dostoyevsky and heavily edited by John Updike.
- Madeleine L'Engle
» If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of
reason. Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and
sudden, startling joys.
- Madeleine L'Engle
» In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off
very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I
could not call on him to come.
- Madeleine L'Engle
» With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life
of their own, quite apart from me.
- Madeleine L'Engle
» Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't
hurt them.
- Dalai Lama
» Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal
responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other
forms of life.
- Dalai Lama
» Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

- Charles Lamb
» If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all
humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes,
hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You
cannot defeat me.
- Ann Landers
» Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.
- Ann Landers
» Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Never is life so low or so
little as when occupied with the present.
- Walter Savage Landor
» Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn
away or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and
likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood of those who press earnestly upon it.
- Walter Savage Landor
» Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

- Dorothea Lange
» In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the
difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they
might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures.
- Philip Larkin
» I am also an Emmy winning actress. Except that I gotta tell ya, it was for comedy and
I've been practicing for most of my life because every job I've ever had they'd always say
the same thing, 'Hey Lauper, what are ya, some kind of comedienne?' and who knew?
- Cyndi Lauper
» Anybody who has ever been in business, anybody who has ever paid bills, anybody
who has ever lived in a serious adult life knows that indebtedness is a killer.
- Frank Lautenberg
» Nobody's ever challenged me and tapped into what I can do. I ain't played a villain
which I believe I can do and do real well. There hasn't been any director who has been
able to challenge me to go there. At this point in my life I've done a lot of things from
stand-up to my own television show for five years to successful comedy shows, and
concert films.
- Martin Lawrence
» America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills,
everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of
the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life until they
can control it.
- David Herbert Lawrence
» But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
» I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

» It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on
tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater
thing.
» Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which
goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
» The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living
is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-
life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.
» The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination.
Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great
-quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
» My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the
chance.
- Denis Leary
» My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you
take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take
the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.
- Timothy Leary
» As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that
the phone is for you.
- Fran Lebowitz
» Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be
happy to hear the phone is for you.
- Fran Lebowitz
» Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
- Fran Lebowitz
» People find life entirely too time-consuming.

- Stanislaw Lec
» My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in
all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best
safeguard of morals and health.
- Robert E. Lee
» A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense
of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts.
- Brandon Lee
» Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible
well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small
number really.
- Brandon Lee
» Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.
- Brandon Lee
» The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

- Brandon Lee
» They see me wheeling around in a beautiful gown, and they realize you can look
elegant, and you can lead a happy life in a wheelchair. I know I've helped handicapped
people, because I've received many comments.
- Anna Lee
» There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and
consciousness of things.
- Mike Leigh
» It's hard enough to write a good drama, it's much harder to write a good comedy, and
it's hardest of all to write a drama with comedy. Which is what life is.
- Jack Lemmon
» The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
- Bob Lemon
» I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've
always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you
know. I'm one of those people.
- John Lennon
» Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the
only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
- John Lennon
» I mean, I'm 48 years old and I've been through a lot in my life - you know, loss,
whether it be death, illness, separation. I mean, the failed expectations... We all have
dreams.
- Annie Lennox
» An Israeli man's life was saved when he was given a Palestinian man's heart in a heart
transplant operation. The guy is doing fine, but the bad news is, he can't stop throwing
rocks at himself.
- Jay Leno
» Bush reiterated his stand to conservatives opposing his decision on stem cell research.
He said today he believes life begins at conception and ends at execution.
- Jay Leno
» Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.
- Max Lerner
» When you act, you do have to use your own life experiences and bring them onto the
stage, dragging those emotions out.
- John Leslie
» For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating,
rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.
- Doris Lessing
» I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.
- Doris Lessing
» At one point I was doing a live television Western five half hours a week with horses
and stunt men and it was a nightmare. The reason that this is apposite is that it
accustomed me a) to work quickly b) to work with many cameras and c) to be hysterical.
And I've carried that with me in my life and work.
- Richard Lester
» Contemporary serial music is like a sailless ship, driven out to sea by its captain, who is
privately convinced that by subjecting life aboard to the rules of an elaborate protocol, he
will prevent the crew from thinking nostalgically either of their home port or of their
ultimate destination.
- Claude Levi-Strauss
» It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for
their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to
serve and to live comfortably.
- Carl Levin
» I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build
a life for myself.
- Monica Lewinsky
» If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home,
why should we not look forward to the arrival?
- C. S. Lewis
» Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary
competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the
deserts that our lives have already become.
- C. S. Lewis
» The art of advertisement, after the American manner, has introduced into all our life
such a lavish use of superlatives, that no standard of value whatever is intact.
- Wyndham Lewis
» The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.
- Juliette Lewis
» The Red Sox are a curious thing because so much here is media driven. You can't go
fire half your scouts here because they are all friends with the local reporters. Your life is
going to hell in the papers.
- Michael Lewis
» Where there is life there is wishful thinking.
- Gerald F. Lieberman
» Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved
their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years
and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.
- Bob Lilly
» Football is like life and I know life.

- Rush Limbaugh
» All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would
grow in thought and mind.
- Abraham Lincoln
» And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
» In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln
» Charles is life itself-pure life, force, like sunlight-and it is for this that I married him
and this that holds me to him-caring always, caring desperately what happens to him and
whatever he happens to be involved in.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
» I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early
mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still
holding the last light.
» The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

» Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values... God made life
simple. It is man who complicates it.
- Charles Lindbergh
» I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single
one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know,
Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over.
- John Walker Lindh
» I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I,
the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
- Vachel Lindsay
» Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if
everything were known?
- Charles de Lint
» A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large
air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
- Walter Lippmann
» Literature is mostly about having sex and not much about having children. Life is the
other way round.
- David Lodge
» A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the
courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to
sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can
be done.
- Vince Lombardi
» The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence,

regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
- Vince Lombardi
» There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise.
And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it
comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
- Jack London
» People are more laid back and live life a little slower in Winchester. In New York (and
now Los Angeles), everything is bam, bam, bam - you have to go fast and move.
- Matt Long
» If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life
sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
» Into each life some rain must fall.

» Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; dust thou art, to dust returnest,
was not spoken of the soul.
» The foods that prolong life and increase purity, vigour, health, cheerfulness, and
happiness are those that are delicious, soothing, substantial and agreeable... Foods that
are bitter, sour, salt, over-hot, pungent, dry and burning produce unhappiness, repentance
and disease.
» There is nothing holier, in this life of ours, than the first consciousness of love - the first
fluttering of its siken wings.
» Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or
the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your
best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.
- Al Lopez
» The youngsters coming up now just go through the motions necessary to make the play.
They should bounce around a little, show some life and zip. It adds a little action and
gives the fans something to look at rather than the monotonous routine, no matter how
perfectly the play is made.
- Al Lopez
» After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to
explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays
for a full life.
- Sophia Loren
» The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who
doesn't know what war is except from television.
- Sophia Loren
» There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to
your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will
truly have defeated age.
- Sophia Loren
» I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I
marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids. I liked being a
teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China. I think part of maturity is
knowing who you are. If people don't like it, it is not going to affect how I feel.
- Rob Lowe
» As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The
milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.
- James Russell Lowell
» It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of
us.
» Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who
have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.
» I'm lucky that I hooked up with my husband because he not only helps me but there's a
joy for him as well. He enjoyed this part of me when we met. He was never threatened by
it, by a woman who wanted a career. In fact, I think he prefers this, that I have a life as
well. And I know my children have always known that they came first.
- Susan Lucci
» Time should make enemies and Life should make friends.
- Henry R. Luce
» And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

- Lucretius
» But the thing about skydiving: I feel when you do something where it's almost like your
whole life flashes in front of you, it's supposed to be that when you hit the ground, you
don't fear anything. And it's really a motivating force for you to just get out there and do
as much as you can, because it's crazy.
- Ludacris
» Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could
stake his life on it a thousand times.
- Martin Luther
» To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the
Christian life as prayer.
- Martin Luther
» Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.
- Martin Luther
» No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many
other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of
them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.
- Robert Lynd
» There are two sorts of curiosity - the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is
concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted
by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
- Robert Lynd
» Oh, what a day-to-day business life is.

- Jules Laforgue
» His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.
- John Lahr
» My private life has nothing to do with my films.

- Fritz Lang
» I hate it when they say, 'He gave his life for his country.' They don't die for the honor
and glory of their country. We kill them.
- Gene R. LaRocque
» Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

- Jonathan Larson
» When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need
to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but
at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically.
- Ali Larter
» A society that has made nostalgia a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange
quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better
than life today.
- Christopher Lasch
» It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features
of earlier times - the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the
bourgeoisie - seem attractive by comparison.
- Christopher Lasch
» There's many a life of sweet content, whose virtue is environment.

- Walter Learned
» The ultimate goal of a more effective and efficient life is to provide you with enough
time to enjoy some of it.
- Michael Leboeuf
» There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that
we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply
about life experience.
- Amy Lee
» The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not
- Ursula K. LeGuin
» For the atom's soul is nothing but energy. Spirit blazes in the dullest of clay. The life of
every woman or man - the heart of it - is pure and holy joy.
- George B. Leonard
» There is only one immutable law in life - in a gentleman's toilet, incoming traffic has
the right of way.
- Hugh Leonard
» What a rotten writer of detective stories life is!

- Nathan Leopold
» Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or
viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.
- Harriet Lerner
» The aims of life are the best defense against death.

- Primo Levi
» The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
- W. M. Lewis
» Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

- Joshua L. Liebman
» God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could
not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but
to find the meanings underlying them.
- Stanley Lindquist
» All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make
sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.
- Jacques Lipchitz
» If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment...
quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be
a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
- Chris Evert Lloyd
» I want to be a good person and live my life the right way, keeping in mind that there
might be a little kid who's watching what I do.
- Rebecca Lobo
» I believe half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at
things.
- William J. Lock
» A deceased man has the right to breathe life into the womb of his wife and prove that
love is stronger than death.
- Paul Lombard
» The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the
moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment
of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
- Haniel Long
» When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.

- Haniel Long
» How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not
only in one's culture but within oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great
pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression
of leaning into the light.
- Barry Lopez
» Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.
- George Lorimer
» In life there are no winners, only assholes with Swiss Bank Accounts.
- Matthew Lotti
» Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and
when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul
Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music.
- Lyle Lovett
» Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a
daring adventure or nothing at all.
- Alex Lowe
» You change your life by changing your heart.

- Max Lucado
» It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is
pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.
- Matt Lucas
» A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and
not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door.
- Joan Lunden
» The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.

- John Lyly
» Poems seem to have a life of their own. They tell you when enough is enough.
- Thomas Lynch
» Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers
and bursts the husk.
- George MacDonald
» We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well.

- George MacDonald
» I've had young guys come on to me and I can't do it. I'm just not into it. I just can't do it.
I think partially because my life circumstances are different. I have a 14-year-old son, and
I wouldn't want to embarrass or humiliate my kids in any way, so I wouldn't allow myself
to be attracted to a younger man.
- Andie MacDowell
» My life in Montana is so diverse from my Hollywood life that it even feels odd for me
to go from one life to the other.
- Andie MacDowell
» A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of

one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate
him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
» I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is
possible. And from that moment, my life changed.
- Shirley MacLaine
» I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my
purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
- Shirley MacLaine
» Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry

why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the
words.
- Archibald MacLeish
» It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life,
and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd,
whatever that opposite may be.
» The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life -
to reduce it to order but at the same time to give it possibility, scope, even dignity.
» The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
» All the people throughout my life who were naysayers pissed me off. But they've all
given me a fervor; an angry ambition that cannot be stopped-and I look forward to
finding a therapist and working on that.
- Tobey Maguire
» I love exploring psychology and getting inside someone's head or exploring the
dynamics of how couples behave, and I would love to continue finding projects where I
have the chance to address those kinds of issues. And sometimes there are going to be
moments in my life where I will probably want to play some wild or sick character just to
shake things up. I can't just be that nice, reserved guy all the time!
- Tobey Maguire
» You simply cannot control other people's thoughts or actions and you can't even
necessarily control your own thoughts and feelings, you know? All you can do is make
your choices of what you do with your life and what your actions are and sometimes
when you do let things go and you're more passive or more active. And, you know, it's
just interesting and it's important to keep on top of myself and be super honest with
myself.
- Tobey Maguire
» I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not
married and having children, it's like your life is empty or you're a communist meanie.
- Bill Maher
» There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no
doors or windows he walks through a wall.
- Bernard Malamud
» My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading,
just satisfying my curiosity.
- Malcolm X
» Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
- Maxwell Maltz
» People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have
no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better
still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to - to
work for and hope for.
- Maxwell Maltz
» We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no
real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.
- Maxwell Maltz
» We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act.
Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.
- Maxwell Maltz
» Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight.
Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no
thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
- Og Mandino
» Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have
going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you
will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace,
strength, courage, and confidence.
- Og Mandino
» Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of
life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
- Og Mandino
» To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about
it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're
dead.
- Og Mandino
» Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one
proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
- Horace Mann
» Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself
would come to be different.
- Katherine Mansfield
» Everything in life that we really accept undergoes a change.

» Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling
waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.
» Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that
he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and
put into action.
- Orison Swett Marden
» Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a
chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We
are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt or thought has had its
hand in molding us, shaping us.
» If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and
deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
» No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will
strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he
could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful -
than much money.
» The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.
» I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her.
You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At
some point you just have to be yourself.
- Dan Marino
» Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; but a
greater thing is to fight life through and say at the end, the dream is true!
- Edwin Markham
» The thing that is incredible is life itself. Why should we be here in this sun-illuminated
universe? Why should there be green earth under our feet?
- Edwin Markham
» Above our life we love a steadfast friend.

- Christopher Marlowe
» La vida loca, that's my life right now. I'm going through an adrenaline rush that my
career is giving me at the moment, and it is pretty intense.
- Ricky Martin
» The homosexual community wants me to be gay. The heterosexual community wants

me to be straight. Every writer thinks, I'm the journalist who's going to make him talk. I
pray for them. I pray that they get a life and stop living mine!
- Ricky Martin
» At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours
to hold.
- Paul Martin
» Al Gonzales is a dedicated public servant and exceptionally qualified to be our nation's

next Attorney General. I know that a lot has been said about Judge Gonzales' life story. It
is a story of the fulfillment of the American Dream.
- Mel Martinez
» Forty-two years ago, I came to America from communist Cuba so I might have a better
way of life, a freer way of life - a more democratic way of life. I wanted to live the
American Dream where if you worked hard and put your mind to the task, anything was
possible.
- Mel Martinez
» The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
- Groucho Marx
» The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the
power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these
impulse voices from within-and make the point: This can be done.
- Abraham Maslow
» How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
- Edgar Lee Masters
» To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the
torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
- Edgar Lee Masters
» Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be
advantageous.
- W. Somerset Maugham
» I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I
could pay others to do for me.
» If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
» It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say I don't know.
» There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.
» What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer.
Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did,
perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about
French literature.
» Someone said that life is a party. You join in after it's started and leave before it's
finished.
- Elsa Maxwell
» Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.
- Rollo May
» A life quenched in an untimely manner is always sad, the life of a young person
quenched, whatever the circumstances, troubles us deeply. If that death arose through
suicide that sense of loss is compounded inexorably. TS Eliot's evocative words serve to
underline that awful sense of loss for the potential that was never allowed to fully
blossom, for all that might have been but wasn't to be:
- Mary McAleese
» The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never
finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed
and consumed by the life process.
- Mary McCarthy
» It is better to have a meaningful life and make a difference than to merely have a long
life.
- Bryant H. McGill
» It is better to lose everything you have to keep the balance of justice level, than to live a
life of petty privilege devoid of true freedom.
- Bryant H. McGill
» One of the most important things one can do in life is to brutally question every single
thing you are taught.
- Bryant H. McGill
» Through death all life is converted into food for the inconceivably vast maw of eternity.
- Bryant H. McGill
» You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings.
However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.
- Bryant H. McGill
» It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil,... that all politicians are mere
opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness,
it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.
- George McGovern
» Try and understand what part you have to play in the world in which you live. There's
more to life than you know and it's all happening out there. Discover what part you can
play and then go for it.
- Ian Mckellen
» When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and
indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.
- Ian Mckellen
» My whole life has been dedicated to music. And of course, I've been accused a million
times of playing too fast or too many notes, and I'm sure justifiably sometimes. But, you
know, I'm the way I am and as we grow old, we learn and I'm still learning about space.
But I'll be learning about space until I die.
- John McLaughlin
» Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

- Peter McWilliams
» We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an
endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment,
by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live.
- Peter McWilliams
» To cherish the life of the world.

- Margaret Mead
» If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have
discovered the secrete of getting along - whether it be business, family relations, or life
itself.
- Bernard Meltzer
» There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life
when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he
but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his
own.
- Herman Melville
» Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
- Karl A. Menninger
» A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your
life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
- Thomas Merton
» In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for
finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to
find out the meaning of his own existence.
- Thomas Merton
» It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop
his spiritual union with God.
- Thomas Merton
» The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
- Thomas Merton
» It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is
a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm
a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then.
- Debra Messing
» A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere
adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so
far.
- Alice Meynell
» The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit
and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the
unpublished blood.
- Alice Meynell
» The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent
defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
- James A. Michener
» I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't prefer to talk about my
family.
- Luis Miguel
» It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
» Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than
dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
» A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the
concealed irony, the deadly joke.
- Arthur Miller
» Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the
Author.
- Arthur Miller
» The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion
upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in
life we call fanaticism.
- Arthur Miller
» What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These
people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
- Arthur Miller
» The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.
- Dennis Miller
» There's no doubt about it, show business lures the people who didn't get enough love,
attention, or approval early in life and have grown up to become bottomless, gaping
vessels of terrifying, abject need. Please laugh.
- Dennis Miller
» Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more
abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the
public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
- Henry Miller
» Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world
is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people.
Forget yourself.
- Henry Miller
» Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so
rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget
yourself.
- Henry Miller
» Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word,
anytime you let her rip.
- Henry Miller
» The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely,
divinely aware.
- Henry Miller
» Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because

nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere
have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here
boredom reaches its peak.
- Henry Miller
» Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.
- Henry Miller
» Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
- Henry Miller
» As I have mentioned many times before, my family's quality of life has been greatly
enhanced by raising and showing horses through the years. We and many other
Delawareans have made horses a family affair.
- Ruth Ann Minner
» Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.

- John N. Mitchell
» I don't think that there's such a thing as a career. I think that career is a myth. A career
isn't what you have ahead of you. A career is what you've got behind you. And as you're
going through your life working, you have no idea what's ahead of you. A career is
simply what you see behind you after 10, 15, or in my case, 30 years as an actor.
- Alfred Molina
» I never made conscious choices. There were times in my life that I chose the first job
that came along because I was broke. I think that there were maybe a handful of times
that I had a choice. In recent years, I've had more of a choice, and it's been very nice to
have that choice, but most of the time, you just hope that there's another job after this
one.
- Alfred Molina
» I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck
now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the
work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues.
- Alfred Molina
» I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet
people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be
tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.
- Brian Molko
» Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a
lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting
trip? A night's sleep?
- Walter F. Mondale
» I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and
they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and
that's where I'd like to be.
- Walter F. Mondale
» For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at
every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air
which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives
subjects their true value.
- Claude Monet
» My life has been nothing but a failure.

- Claude Monet
» Labour not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who
neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth
through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was coming; so shall his life be taken
away before he knoweth that he hath it.
- Michel de Montaigne
» My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
» The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

» The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them...
Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
» Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and
waking sleep.
» Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look
inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land
as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow.
- Ricardo Montalban
» If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the
foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.
- Alfred A. Montapert
» Light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord's return, and the
assurance of everlasting glory.
- Dwight L. Moody
» Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of
purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
- Dwight L. Moody
» In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life.
It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine
Principle.
- Sun Myung Moon
» People who sow a selfish life here on earth will reap hell thereafter. But this is not the
result of the condemnation of God. One cannot reap heaven if he lives and acts against
God. God is a God of love; by having humanity suffering in hell, his heart is aching. He
cannot enjoy this. God's desire is to ultimately liberate even hell.
- Sun Myung Moon
» As the flow of subliterary news items and anecdotes increases, the writer's work withers
and stales until, in grim transference, his life becomes his oeuvre and he his only
character.
- Brian Moore
» The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something
you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most
important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.
- Henry Moore
» I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.

- Demi Moore
» Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual
fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life married to the timeless mysteries
of the soul.
- Thomas Moore
» No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

- Thomas Moore
» If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works
together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and
heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
- Hannah More
» There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
- Christopher Morley
» The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

- John Morley
» So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of
life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever,
then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
- William Morris
» People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot
more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
- Jim Morrison
» Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

- Jim Morrison
» I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing
just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
- John Mortimer
» The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the
yogurt.
- John Mortimer
» Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of
life is to get the message.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
» We have created an industrial order geared to automatism, where feeble-mindedness,

native or acquired, is necessary for docile productivity in the factory; and where a
pervasive neurosis is the final gift of the meaningless life that issues forth at the other
end.
- Lewis Mumford
» Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has
been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually
so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
- Lewis Mumford
» He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in
the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.
- Hector Hugh Munro
» The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write
about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and
you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
- Alice Munro
» He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never
managed to get out.
- Iris Murdoch
» My life is nothing like the Daddy Day Care life. Me around the house is nothing like
the Daddy Day Care dad.
- Eddie Murphy
» Is this the way of life that Islam teaches us? That we fight amongst ourselves and feel
scared of fellow Muslims.
- Pervez Musharraf
» The privilege of a higher education, especially outside Africa, broadened my original

horizon and encouraged me to focus on the environment, women and development in
order to improve the quality of life of people in my country in particular and in the
African region in general.
- Wangari Maathai
» It is in plunging into the stream of life itself and entering into the deepest involvement
with the values that confront us, exercising our wills to the utmost-to the breaking point-
that we find God in the very extremity of the battle.
- Geddes MacGregor
» I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of
man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin.
- Alexander Mackenzie
» If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy
life.
- Mia Maestro
» But it was just like life was waiting for me to make that decision, and when I finally
made it, it just took me places I never even believed existed.
- John Mahoney
» So I was the associate editor of a medical journal in Chicago, and I was thirty seven,
and all of a sudden I just sort of started going through this dark night of the soul... where I
just... . Is this going to be it for me, am I going to be spending the rest of my life writing
about cataracts and hemorrhoids... and... . just not what I wanted to do, and I was just
intensely depressed all the time.
- John Mahoney
» We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron.
We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to raise food. It's no
use. So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the
challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life
itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.
- George Leigh Mallory
» I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
- Dudley Field Malone
» There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a
guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high
and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.
- Bernard Mandeville
» We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from
the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources
are also being destroyed by human hands.
- Nong Duc Manh
» The future of the world belongs to the youth of the world, and it is from the youth and
not from the old that the fire of life will warm and enlighten the world.It is your privilege
to breathe the breath of life into the dry bones of many around you..
- Tom Mann
» I'd probably try to stop the rain forests from being cut down. I'd probably join the
revolution down south somewhere and try to save my life on the planet Earth. I might go
to Libya. I might go see the Ayatollah. I might go to France, catch somebody in France
I'm upset with.
- Charles Manson
» Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer
we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and
does not see them.
- Franz Marc
» Our Lord did not try to alter circumstances. He submitted to them. They shaped his life
and eventually brought him to Calvary. I believe we miss opportunities and lovely secrets
our Lord is waiting to teach us by not taking what comes.
- Mother Maribel
» Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life
meaningful.
- Joshua J. Marine
» Getting the most out of life is giving life your most.

- Janice Markowitz
» I think that the biggest misconception I have run across is people assuming that this is
my final destination - that being a model is the pinnacle of my life - how wrong they are!
- Shae Marks
» Editing is the only process. The shooting is the pleasant work. The editing makes the
movie, so I spend all my life in editing.
- Garry Marshall
» What if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it - would you be
likely to give them another? Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings
that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.
- Ralph Marston
» Even as a coin attains its full value when it is spent, so life attains its supreme value
when one knows how to forfeit it with grace when the time comes.
- Felix Marti-Ibanez
» Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and
abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, completely lacking in
substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
- Agnes Martin
» Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life.
- Agnes Martin
» To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the
things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things
that are acceptable to your mind.
- Agnes Martin
» I had such a wonderful life before drugs and alcohol abuse. I've got that life back now
and plan to keep it. Maybe I had to go through what I did to get to this point, to
appreciate this life more.
- Harvey Martin
» Accept, accept that I have won, whispers the Devil. You can see for yourself that life is
unjust, unfair, that suffering is ordinary. Who is stronger? I am, of course. Just despair,
my dear, despair. Only tell me that I am strong, that Evil rules.
- Suzanne Massie
» There comes a time in every man's life when he must make way for an older man.
- Reginald Maudling
» The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic
boredom.
- Guy de Maupassant
» The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our
attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
- John Maxwell
» You need to claim the events of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly
possess all that you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with
reality.
- Florida Scott Maxwell
» It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal.
The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.
- Benjamin E. Mays
» The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no
goal to reach.
- Benjamin E. Mays
» I have a certain curiosity for life that drives me and propels me forward.
- Rachel McAdams
» I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is
when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale.
- Rachel McAdams
» I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity
to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique
opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.
- Christa McAuliffe
» Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying
the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.
- Eugene J. McCarthy
» It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about
it. I don't want to spend my life being angry.
- Stella McCartney
» I would never discourage anyone from doing what it is in life that they want to do. But I
would encourage them to find out the pros and cons of anything they become involved in.
- Rita Mero
» There was absolutely no strain in marriage. Marc and I understand that this is a
business. We have no problem separating our personal life with our personal life. And we
have a very strong relationship.
- Rita Mero
» Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself. You always have to have
fun. You have to have an open mind. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. Life's too short.
- Debbie Meyer
» It was a real experience, not just, 'I'm going to the Olympics,' but it was a life skill, an
eye-opener to the real world situation. I was 16, gone from my parents for two months,
living by myself in a hotel. I was in charge of how much I ate, how much sleep I got. You
grow up extremely fast. You know how to set goals for yourself, and how to work toward
those goals. You know time management and how to work through adversity.
- Debbie Meyer
» Saving lives is not a top priority in the halls of power. Being compassionate and
concerned about human life can cause a man to lose his job. It can cause a woman not to
get the job to begin with.
- Myriam Miedzian
» I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music.
Life is beautiful.
- Christina Milian
» No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made
known silently.
- Agnes De Mille
» Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.
- Warren Miller
» There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen
for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.
- James Nathan Miller
» Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by what you bring
to life.
- John Homer Miller
» The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of
animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions
of reproduction and care of the young.
- Kate Millet
» Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their
life experiences are utterly different.
- Kate Millett
» The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of
animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions
of reproduction and care of the young.
- Kate Millett
» The masses in highly industrialized countries like England, the United States, or France
are largely de-Christianized. Technology, and the way of life it produces, undermines
Christianity far more effectively than do violent measures.
- Czeslaw Milosz
» The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.

- Helen Mirren
» There is no genius in life like the genius of energy and industry.

- Donald G. Mitchell
» I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.
- Tina Modotti
» As an American I wish my Dad had been elected. Personally I think my life is easier
than it would have been in terms of having a career.
- Eleanor Mondale
» Some of the most important people in my life would be shocked to learn that they were
role models. They weren't celebrities, or even particularly accomplished. But they had
some quality that I admired, that made me want to be like them.
- Donn Moomaw
» In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the
life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever
the final result may be.
- Alberto Moravia
» As to war, I am and always was a great enemy, at the same time a warrior the greater
part of my life and were I young again, should still be a warrior while ever this country
should be invaded and I lived.
- Daniel Morgan
» I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

- Alanis Morissette
» When you lay your life out there, you want it to be as true as possible.
- Jim Morris
» I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
- Anna Mary Robertson Moses
» Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
- Robert Motherwell
» Wherever art appears, life disappears.

- Robert Motherwell
» The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the
degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.
- Lucretia Mott
» Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be
endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government
agencies to do good.
- Daniel P. Moynihan
» Undoubtedly, to protest secured people against terrorism is to protect the right to life in
a society of believers that glorifies life and freedom.
- Hosni Mubarak
» Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in

trouble: prayer is a life attitude.
- Walter A. Mueller
» You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.
- Mike Murdock
» Way of life in Australia focuses more on the outdoors.

- Thomas Muster
» In the phrases of songs and poems bread is gold, it is the motherland, it is the hard work
of the masses, it is life itself.
- Seth Mydans
» For almost 70 years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the
public a steady line of sacred bull.
- Ralph Nader
» Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe:
full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it
begins.
- V. S. Naipaul
» I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do
everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can...
what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.
- Joe Namath
» I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a
living, which is rather a nouciance.
- Ogden Nash
» I am a huge believer in giving back and helping out in the community and the world.
Think globally, act locally I suppose. I believe that the measure of a person's life is the
affect they have on others.
- Steve Nash
» I'm not a joiner of clubs... But this is a pretty cool club to be in. The past inductees are
brilliant, brilliant musicians that have touched my life in many ways, and to be worthy of
such company is flattering to me and I appreciate it.
- Graham Nash
» If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would
still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.
- Graham Nash
» My mother, originally Margaret Virginia Martin, but called Virginia, was herself also
born in Bluefield. She had studied at West Virginia University and was a school teacher
before her marriage, teaching English and sometimes Latin. But my mother's later life
was considerably affected by a partial loss of hearing resulting from a scarlet fever
infection that came at the time when she was a student at WVU.
- John Nash
» A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a
fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
- George Jean Nathan
» I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable
either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.
- Gloria Naylor
» I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

- Sam Neill
» My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A
glorious death is to be envied.
- Horatio Nelson
» Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and
your heart will have peace.
- Kent Nerburn
» When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's
disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek
consolation.
- Gerard De Nerval
» What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more
livable.
- Louise Nevelson
» Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning.
- John Henry Newman
» I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
- Olivia Newton-John
» Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by
a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
» All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

- Friedrich Nietzsche
» Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment
from life is to live dangerously!
» He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not
life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?
» Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

» This secret spoke Life herself unto me: Behold, said she, I am that which must ever
surpass itself.
» Without music, life would be a mistake.

» Am I motivated by what I really want out of life - or am I mass-motivated?

- Earl Nightingale
» We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we
enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to
our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so
worthwhile.
- Earl Nightingale
» I know why familles were created, with all their imperfections. They humanize you.
They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of
life is not destroyed.
- Anais Nin
» Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be
brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
- Anais Nin
» The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
- Anais Nin
» I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .

- David Niven
» The only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping and showing off his
shortcomings.
- David Niven
» I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious to advance the political
career of my husband.
- Pat Nixon
» Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess
I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some
of these things... Life is one crisis after another.
- Richard M. Nixon
» The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored,
and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet
temperate happiness.
- Richard M. Nixon
» This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me.
- Richard M. Nixon
» A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
- Chuck Noll
» I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing
for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed here's a place that I can
have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it.
- Nick Nolte
» If you're older you want to tell stories about the pool of human life and living and to
communicate, not only to your age group but to do an age group that can begin to
understand, that has enough experience of life far beyond the taste of life.
- Nick Nolte
» You do come to a point where you can get your life in control a bit. But going through
life, you discover these deep, dark things in yourself that you can't run away from, so you
have to learn to embrace them. I mean, the difference between a murderer and myself is
only that I choose not to do it. But I'm totally capable.
- Nick Nolte
» The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

- Frank Norris
» When men see how relevant the ten commandments are for economics, they should
gain new respect for the importance of the laws of God for all of life, but especially for
the life of dominion man, the man redeemed by grace through faith in the one true
Dominion Man, Jesus Christ.
- Gary North
» When you don't have a child to think about, life is a lot easier, but when you do, the
thought process is a little different.
- Brandy Norwood
» For every answer, I like to bring up a question. Maybe I'm related to Alfred Hitchcock
or maybe I got to know him too well, but I think life should be that way. I don't think you
want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up
another question, and not all questions should be answered.
- Kim Novak
» Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family
life in general.
- Novalis
» I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has
the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a
Gibson guitar.
- Ted Nugent
» Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should
give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food -
unless, of course, it's a mallard.
- Ted Nugent
» Political Correctness is about turning a blind eye to painful reality because your
comfortable feelings are more important to you than saving lives and providing quality of
life to people who work their ass off to be productive and are a benefit to this great
American Dream.
- Ted Nugent
» Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this
security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are
weak and irresponsible.
- Richard J. Needham
» The ebb and flow of will is like the movements of the tides... if we cease our vain
struggles and lamentations long enough to look away from the personal self...we realize
life is going well with us after all.
- Charles B. Newcomb
» Then I became a mother and it just fills every space, that isn't filled with something else
important. It's just like this incredible balloon that blows up and fills life up.
- Thandie Newton
» You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his
money. When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life. I'd like to thank
you for giving me a part of your life tonight.
- Wayne Newton
» Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man
going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a
mile down the street.
- Ben Nicholas
» There are ten or twenty basic truths, and life is the process of discovering them over
and over and over.
- David Nichols
» I have not been animated in my life to fight against race and sex discrimination simply
because of my own identity. That would mean that one must be South African to fight
apartheid, or a poor white in Appalachia to fight poverty, or Jewish to fight anti-
Semitism. And I just reject that conception of how struggles should be waged.
- Eleanor Holmes Norton
» Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to
be shared.
- Henri Nouwen
» Laughter is wine for the soul-laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with
seriousness. the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.
- Sean O'Casey
» The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures
gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to
live.
- Sean O'Casey
» We hold that the reckless disregard for human life implicit in knowingly engaging in
criminal activity known to carry a grave risk of death represents a highly culpable mental
state that may be taken into account in making a capital sentencing judgment not
inevitable, lethal result.
- Sandra Day O'Connor
» Your distress about life might mean you have been living for the wrong reason, not that
you have no reason for living.
- Tom O'Connor
» I'm not willing to say I want to return to private life because I'm too old to begin telling
lies now.
- Paul O'Neill
» That's my advice to all homosexuals, whether they're in the Boy Scouts, or in the Army
or in high school: Shut up, don't tell anybody what you do, your life will be a lot easier.
- Bill O'Reilly
» The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

- Joyce Carol Oates
» Many are the people, Nigerians and non-Nigerians, dead and alive, that God has used
and is still using in the course of my life journey.
- Olusegun Obasanjo
» Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a
betrayal if not outright treachery.
- Olusegun Obasanjo
» Suddenly life has new meaning to me,There's beauty up above and things we never take
notice of, You wake up suddenly you're in love.
- Billy Ocean
» Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up
and do them.
- Roger von Oech
» The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as

intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life
happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.
- David Ogilvy
» The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the
next thirty years.
- David Ogilvy
» While some no other cause for life can give ,but a dull habitude to live.
- John Oldham
» I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's
the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great
attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.
- Larisa Oleynik
» It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal
virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
- Margaret Oliphant
» Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural

accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with
thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly
uninteresting to all the world.
- Margaret Oliphant
» Men who are engaged in public life must necessarily aim at reducing opposition to a
minimum, and one of the most obvious means to that end is by misrepresenting,
discrediting or ruining their opponents.
- Frederick Scott Oliver
» To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to
hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time
comes to let it go, to let it go.
- Mary Oliver
» When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the
bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.
- Mary Oliver
» My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in

the present because that is where life resides.
- Gene Oliver
» I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores
dramatic dynamics and their relations to life size.
- Laurence Olivier
» In all realms of life it takes courage to stretch your limits, express your power, and
fulfill your potential... it's no different in the financial realm.
- Suze Orman
» I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life - hit.
- David Ortiz
» Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.
- George Orwell
» Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
- George Orwell
» Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering,
and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.
- George Orwell
» One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which
makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as
meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.
- George Orwell
» Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't
know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be
dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the
last 30 years!
- Ozzy Osbourne
» An evil life is a kind of death.

- Ovid
» The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of
deeds of the flesh.
- John Owen
» For death begins with life's first breath And life begins at touch of death.
- John Oxenham
» We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't
care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even
a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
- Al Pacino
» I never got a job in my life that I asked for! But all my life better jobs have been given
me than I dared ask for.
- Walter H. Page
» A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which
is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct
knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
- Camille Paglia
» I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from
you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow
choose what your life is going to be about.
- Chuck Palahniuk
» I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life.
It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that
genuinely have a life of their own.
- Michael Palin
» One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.
- Michael Palin
» Being a professor and working are not the same thing. The academic community is
composed largely of nitwits. If I may generalize. People who don't know very much
about what matters very much, who view life through literature rather than the other way
around.
- Robert Parker
» I don't imagine I would have chosen to spend the last twenty-six years of my life
writing about a character whose values and virtues I disdained.
- Robert Parker
» I had achieved the most important things in my life when I married Joan and had the
sons. Given the choice between Joan and the boys, and being a writer, I world give up
being a writer without a blink.
- Robert Parker
» I think at this stage in my life I have learned that there are any number of things that
men will never know, and can never hope to know, about women.
- Robert Parker
» Purpose is what gives life a meaning.

- Charles Henry Parkhurst
» Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is
appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the
curry, boiled rice can be very dull.
- C. Northcote Parkinson
» Each person must live their life as a model for others.

- Rosa Parks
» One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a
rule of life and there is nothing better.
- Blaise Pascal
» I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't
of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
- Boris Pasternak
» What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life
always spills over the rim of every cup.
- Boris Pasternak
» You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens
more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.
- Boris Pasternak
» If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even
though some of them still look down on me.
- Saint Patrick
» Live your life and forget your age.

- Jean Paul
» You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for
you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the
help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you
formulate.
- Pope John Paul II
» All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy,
selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we
so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
- Pope Paul VI
» Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we
might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to
do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
- Pope Paul VI
» The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount
of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God
and to be united in love among ourselves.
- Pope Paul VI
» The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning,
seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity,
the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
- Pope Paul VI
» It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us
survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe,
and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
- Cesare Pavese
» The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are
dropped.
- Cesare Pavese
» Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking
every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a
continual feast.
- Norman Vincent Peale
» Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A
masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
» The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of
existence.
» You can have peace of mind, improved health and an ever-increasing flow of energy.
Life can be full of joy and satisfaction.
» Mortality is a proper object to invite our pity, and privation of life alone sufficient to
move compassion in the living.
- John Pearson
» They which have no hope of a life to come, may extend their griefs for the loss of this,
and equal the days of their mourning with the years of the life of man.
- John Pearson
» We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the
rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together.
- John Pearson
» What reason then can we produce, that the life of a man whom we esteem, should be
sorrow to himself, and his death be grief to us?
- John Pearson
» We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often Life is not a problem to
be solved, but a mystery to be lived.
- M. Scott Peck
» The honest man must be a perpetual renegade, the life of an honest man a perpetual
infidelity. For the man who wishes to remain faithful must take himself perpetually
unfaithful to all the continual, successive, indefatigable, renascent errors.
- Charles Peguy
» I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or
any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it,
as I shall not pass this way again.
- William Penn
» One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.
- Jack Penn
» Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another
thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead
to me; only the haters seem alive.
- Walker Percy
» But we know that the very God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. And
sometimes we're called upon to defend both life and liberty - God's blessings to
Americans, and indeed, to all of His creation.
- Sonny Perdue
» One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring
through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so
apparent from the ground.
- Sonny Perdue
» My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.
- Evita Peron
» I really lived life to its fullest and that got me in trouble from time to time.
- Matthew Perry
» The air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we inhabit are not only critical
elements in the quality of life we enjoy - they are a reflection of the majesty of our
Creator.
- Rick Perry
» I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the
first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods.
My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
- Anne Perry
» Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and
movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say
goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity.
- William Petersen
» Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are
gaining a reverence for life - all life.
- Roger Tory Peterson
» For me, getting comfortable with being famous was hard - that whole side of it, the loss
of anonymity, the loss of privacy. Giving up that part of your life and not having control
of it.
- Michelle Pfeiffer
» A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view
from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.
- William Lyon Phelps
» One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

» The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
» I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do?
What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.
- Michael Phelps
» Probably the toughest time in anyone's life is when you have to murder a loved one
because they're the devil.
- Emo Philips
» It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

- Pablo Picasso
» The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
- Pablo Picasso
» The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification
will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim
» To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When
you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then,
and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.
- Peace Pilgrim
» And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do
it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
- Sylvia Plath
» Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.

- Plato
» Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts
and souls of the citizens.
- Plato
» Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the
imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
- Plato
» We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when
men are afraid of the light.
- Plato
» Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning
fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of
mankind is surprising.
- Titus Maccius Plautus
» Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
- Edgar Allan Poe
» I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-
and this is my biggest satisfaction.
- Roman Polanski
» For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the
right.
- Alexander Pope
» Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these
handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put
them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
- Katherine Anne Porter
» They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of
gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often
did not.
- Katherine Anne Porter
» I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more
important.
- Natalie Portman
» My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-
screen.
- Natalie Portman
» Star Wars hasn't changed my life at all.

- Natalie Portman
» I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

- Colin Powell
» How does a kid from Coos Bay, with one leg longer than the other win races? All my
life people have been telling me, 'Your too small Pre', 'Your not fast enough Pre', 'Give
up your foolish dream Steve'. But they forgot something, I have to win.
- Steve Prefontaine
» I got an early education on how bad men and women can act. Most of those people
were sucking the life out of him.
- Lisa Marie Presley
» I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people
to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids.
» I'm doing it because music's been such a profound influence on me and my whole life
and gotten me through everything. I thought I could use this album as a vehicle, an outlet
of whatever I've been through, and I wanted to see if I could affect others. It's as simple
as that.
» Music's always been such a big part of my life - it's always got me through everything
and it always moves me - so I wanted to move others in some way, or touch them, and
use my art with my own fingerprint in it.
» My life has been unusual. I was born to unusual circumstances, but I'm surviving and
going through crap just like anybody else. Sure, it might be on a different level and
maybe in a different way, but my life is the same as anybody's. When people look at any
life under a microscope, it might seem terrible, but I've met people with worse stories.
» I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and
could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
- J. B. Priestley
» Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is

spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.
- J. B. Priestley
» There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or
lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he
would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
- Marcel Proust
» The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
- Pythagoras
» Since everything in life is but an experience perfect in being what it is, having nothing
to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well burst out in laughter.
- Long Chen Pa
» Law students are trained in the case method, and to the lawyer everything in life looks
like a case.
- Edward Packard, Jr.
» Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or
change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release
them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time.
- Sara Paddison
» Our life is half natural and half technological. Half-and-half is good. You cannot deny
that high-tech is progress. We need it for jobs. Yet if you make only high-tech, you make
war. So we must have a strong human element to keep modesty and natural life.
- Nam June Paik
» The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from
business or professional life.
- Grace Paley
» Beyond the horizon... a great, creative impulse is at work - the only thing that gives this
continent meaning and a guarantee of the future. Every Australian ought to climb up
here... and glimpse the various, manifold life of which he is a part.
- Vance Palmer
» A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his
life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
- Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
» So long as we do not blow our brains out, we have decided life is worth living.
- Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
» The meaning of Life is to become and create our succesors.

- Tim Pease
» I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more
injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.
- Pele
» Everyone was like 'Oh, you'd be a perfect Frankie, she's a working-class girl, ta da da
da da,' and I was like 'I don't get her. She gave up. That's not me. That has never been
me.' It took me a minute to figure out who she was. I was like 'Well, how come she
doesn't have any joy in her life? How come she gave up?' I had a rough life too, and I
didn't give up, and I have joy.
- Rosie Perez
» Is any man free except the one who can pass his life as he pleases?
- Persius
» We must make working life more human.
- Goran Persson
» The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to
live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always
live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature.
- Wilferd A. Peterson
» I figure you get out of life just about what you put into it.
- Lee Petty
» What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The
voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she
begins to live for a reason.
- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
» I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken
Livingstone.
- Trevor Phillips
» Her life was like running on a treadmill or riding ona stationary bike; it was aerobic, it
was healthy, but she wasn't going anywhere.
- Julia Phillips
» My life off the court has changed. I'm feeling good inside, so I guess it shows on the
outside too.
- Mary Pierce
» Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

- Harold Pinter
» A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us
contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to
place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
- Ann Plato
» The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more,
one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
- Pliny
» Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he
waits for it to stop.
- Alfred Polgar
» I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

- J. Enoch Powell
» Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
- Hugh Prather
» To be successful in life what you need is education, not literacy and degrees.
- Munshi Premchand
» I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road.

- Adelaide Anne Procter
» Often my creative life has seemed like a long tunnel, dark and damp. And sometimes I
wondered whether I could live through it. But I did!
- Ai Qing
» There's a moment that comes and I think that it comes for anyone who loves their job
and what they do and they've been at it for a while where you realize at an early age,
because it's such a gift to realize at an early age what you want to do with your life and
know what you want to do.
- Dennis Quaid
» He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
- Francis Quarles
» Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward
of action.
- Francis Quarles
» The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

- Dan Quayle
» Nothing can add more power to your life than concentrating all your energies on a
limited set of targets.
- Nido Qubein
» I enjoyed my life when I had nothing... and kinda like the idea of just being happy with
me.
- Joey Ramone
» Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

- Ayn Rand
» I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man,
nor ask another man to live for mine.
- Ayn Rand
» Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the
leper's bell of an approaching looter.
- Ayn Rand
» Be careful. Journalism is more addictive than crack cocaine. Your life can get out of
balance.
- Dan Rather
» In Jesus' life from the Father, in the immediacy and closeness of his association with
him in prayer and indeed face to face, he is God's witness, through whom the intangible
has become tangible, the distant has drawn near.
- Joseph Ratzinger
» The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to
the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives
away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath.
- Joseph Ratzinger
» To be the first person baptized with the new water was seen as a significant act of
Providence. I have always been filled with thanksgiving for having had my life immersed
in this way in the Easter Mystery... the more I reflect on it, the more this seems fitting for
the nature of our human life: we are still waiting for Easter; we are not yet standing in the
full light but walking toward it full of trust.
- Joseph Ratzinger
» Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can
be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of
which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their
case.
- John Rawls
» My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our
lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
- Ronald Reagan
» No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once

launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal
life we'll ever see on this earth!
- Ronald Reagan
» It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
- Thomas Brackett Reed
» As I grow to understand life less and less I grow to love it more and more.
- Jules Renard
» In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though
control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our
bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.
- Adrienne Rich
» They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is
death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide...?
- Adrienne Rich
» One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your
life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life
those things that keep you from going to the top.
- Bob Richards
» It's strange how parts come along, how life lives us, and what we get to do with the
abilities that are given us.
- Michael Richards
» Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
- Jean Paul Richter
» Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.
- Jean Paul Richter
» Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the
reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less
mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.
- Jean Paul Richter
» Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.

- Jean Paul Richter
» During my whole life I have not found a happier hunting ground than in the course of
the Somme Battle. In the morning, as soon as I had got up, the first Englishmen arrived,
and the last did not disappear until long after sunset. Boelcke once said that this was the
El Dorado of the flying men.
- Manfred von Richthofen
» There are some moments in one's life which tickle one's nerves particularly and the first
solo-flight is among them.
- Manfred von Richthofen
» The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was
numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my
world.
- Leni Riefenstahl
» There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either IN or you're OUT.
There's no such thing as life in-between.
- Pat Riley
» No skill shapes a child's future success in school or in life more than the ability to read.
- Bob Riley
» Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the
simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much
sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never
have been able to find these words.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
» If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet
enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty.
» Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
» The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

» What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

- Arthur Rimbaud
» Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing
future.
- Antoine Rivarol
» July 13, 1954 was the most tragic day of my life. I had lost my beloved Frida forever.
To late now I realized that the most wonderful part of my life had been my love for Frida.
- Diego Rivera
» No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into
light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated,
disciplined.
- Joan Rivers
» I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of
those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
- Anthony Robbins
» In life you need either inspiration or desperation.

- Anthony Robbins
» My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of
pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you
feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
- Anthony Robbins
» The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain
and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life
controls you.
- Anthony Robbins
» Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change
any and every part of your life in an instant.
- Anthony Robbins
» I just want to make a point that it's not just great teachers that sometimes shape your
life. Sometimes it's the absence of great teachers that shapes your life and being ignored
can be just as good for a person as being lauded.
- Julia Roberts
» What's nice about my dating life is that I don't have to leave my house. All I have to do
is read the paper: I'm marrying Richard Gere, dating Daniel Day-Lewis, parading around
with John F. Kennedy, Jr., and even Robert De Niro was in there for a day.
- Julia Roberts
» However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become,
life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left
for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.
- Frederick W. Robertson
» Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life
that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower
meaning, has agreed to call divine.
- Frederick W. Robertson
» A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

- Jackie Robinson
» Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand
just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
- Jackie Robinson
» I don't get high, but sometimes I wish I did. That way, when I messed up in life I would
have an excuse. But right now there's no rehab for stupidity.
- Chris Rock
» I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

- John D. Rockefeller
» Being a runner means you are now free to win and lose and live life to its fullest.
- Bill Rodgers
» To make a video game come to life was definitely a childhood fetish of mine. I have to
admit there's not much substance there, but it was fun.
- Michelle Rodriguez
» The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
- Carl Rogers
» Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed
through life trying to save.
- Will Rogers
» Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop
a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it
or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that
university.
- James E. Rogers
» How a community supports the arts provides insight into how the community views
itself. By promoting vibrancy in the arts, we encourage a positive self-image for our
community, our company and our employees. We make everyone's life better by bringing
the arts closer to them.
- James E. Rogers
» If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan.
And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
- Jim Rohn
» The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.
- Jim Rohn
» I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.
Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever
reason, turn his back on life.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
» Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager
passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the
shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
» When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows
which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
» Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of
nations alike.
- Theodore Roosevelt
» Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work
worth doing.
» Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth
remembering.
» There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is
worth remembering.
» I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would
prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for
novelists.
- Philip Roth
» Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.
- Jean Jacques Rousseau
» Before marriage, a man will lay down his life for you; after marriage he won't even lay
down his newspaper.
- Helen Rowland
» The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit
when he had the opportunity.
- Helen Rowland
» The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove to a man that his intentions are serious.
- Helen Rowland
» However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do
face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.
- Muriel Rukeyser
» If we don't bear witness as citizens, as people, as individuals, the right that we have had
to life is sacrificed. There is a silence, instead of a speaking presence.
- Jane Rule
» My private measure of success is daily. If this were to be the last day of my life would I
be content with it? To live in a harmonious balance of commitments and pleasures is
what I strive for.
- Jane Rule
» Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
- Salman Rushdie
» Most of what matters in your life takes place in your absence.

- Salman Rushdie
» Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

- John Ruskin
» A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is

allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
- Bertrand Russell
» It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for
evidence which could support this.
- Bertrand Russell
» That which exists through itself is called The Eternal. The Eternal has neither name nor
shape. It is the one essence, the one primal spirit. Essence and life cannot be seen. They
are contained in the light of heaven. The light of heaven cannot be seen. It is contained in
the two eyes.
- Bertrand Russell
» To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
- Bertrand Russell
» The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.
- David Russell
» The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
- David Russell
» My life is a series of things that just happen.

- Harold Russell
» Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that
spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.
- George William Russell
» When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per
minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in
harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.
- George William Russell
» I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't
rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not
knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without
knowing what's going to happen next.
- Gilda Radner
» I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.
- Sally Rand
» All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy,
selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we
so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
- Ralph Ransom
» A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and
life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.
- Burton Rascoe
» This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to
understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of
this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.
- Prem Rawal
» Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be,
life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.
- Wilhelm Reich
» My craziest ideas come from cartoons. I approach music by taking that cartoon extreme
and the real life extreme and finding somewhere in the middle. The animated element
lures people in, but the real-life substance puts the nail in the coffin.
- Busta Rhymes
» For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a

trillionaire.
- Beah Richards
» Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to

follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no
return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.
- Mary Richards
» To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

- Mary Richards
» I've just gone through so much in my life that pulling my top up just doesn't seem like
that big a deal.
- Nicole Richie
» In some ways, her life is so much worse that everybody else's, people feel almost
cheered up and inspired. They feel like, 'If Hayley hasn't killed herself, why should I?'
- Kelly Ripa
» Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully acheived has already defined his
own limitations.
- Cavett Robert
» A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his
back on it and starts to wither away.
- Gene Roddenberry
» The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first.

- Ginger Rogers
» My approach to life can't be summed up in a pithy quote, and if yours can, you're in
trouble.
- Mark Rogers
» If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence

on preventing failures of communication.
- Richard Rosen
» I'm really keen to go back and do some theatre, but I can't afford to at the moment
because we're getting married in September. And then I'm hoping to direct a film at the
end of this year, and that means a year of your life without pay.
- Richard Roxburgh
» I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.
- Arthur Rubinstein
» To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a
miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.
- Arthur Rubinstein
» We need to feel the cheer and inspiration of meeting each other, we need to gain the
courage and fresh life that comes from the mingling of congenial souls, of those working
for the same ends.
- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
» Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
- Don Miguel Ruiz
» Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get
angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.
- Don Miguel Ruiz
» Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
- Keri Russell
» The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon
something.
- Henry Norris Russell
» There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing
it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine
hundredths of them.
- Mark Rutherford
» What we don't talk about enough is Ohio's unique and remarkable quality of life. We
are a state of cities, small towns and growing suburbs where life is affordable and
destinations within reach. There is no better place to raise a family.
- Bob Taft
» I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and
behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore
» Life. People. Before, I used to take everything at face value. Because, when I say
something, I mean it... so I used to feel that everybody else meant what they said. But of
course that wasn't true. And life isn't that sweet and simple.
- Sharon Tate
» My whole life has been decided by fate.

- Sharon Tate
» The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

- Jeremy Taylor
» There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done...inexorably, unalterably
done.
- Sara Teasdale
» When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given
me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
- Sara Teasdale
» Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.
- Tecumseh
» When all is done, human life is, at the greatest and the best, but like a froward child,
that must be played with and humored a little to keep it quiet till it falls asleep, and then
the care is over.
- William Temple
» I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I
do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?
- John Templeton
» The main focus in my life now is to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited
that they think they have the total truth.
- John Templeton
» The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of
his passions.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
» In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
» Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how
much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
- Mother Teresa
» If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its
sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something,
do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.
- Ellen Terry
» Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the
only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you
will succeed.
- William Makepeace Thackeray
» Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value
it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
- Paul Theroux
» Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

- Paul Theroux
» The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of
values.
- Norman Thomas
» If there are things you don't like in the world you grew up in, make your own life
different.
- Dave Thomas
» Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?
- Rose Thomas
» Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's
what you do for others.
- Danny Thomas
» But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank
or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.
- Richard Thompson
» I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may
have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.
- Virgil Thomson
» A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes
waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the
universe, not of the cars.
- Henry David Thoreau
» Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality.
Be not simply good; be good for something.
» Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who
understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
» Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
» How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book
exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at
present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.
» However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names.
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new
things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes
and keep your thoughts.
» I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and
endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in
common hours.
» I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate
his life by conscious endeavor.
» I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay,
to life itself than this incessant business.
» If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life
which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
» Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not
indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
» Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify.

» Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

» The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be
exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
» The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
» There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life
getting his living.
» There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in
any place except what you bring to it yourself.
» To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that
will task the reader more than any other exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It
requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the
whole life to this object.
» What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
» Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity
was dripping invisibly all over the house.
- James Thurber
» I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous.
Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.
- Uma Thurman
» Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the
symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the
verge of an act of faith.
- Paul Tillich
» The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis,
or a battle.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
» I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the
things one wants to know about.
- J. R. R. Tolkien
» A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats
meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.
- Leo Tolstoy
» Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on
in it unhindered and let it defend itself.
- Leo Tolstoy
» The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than
according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new
form of life.
- Leo Tolstoy
» The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.
- Leo Tolstoy
» True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

- Leo Tolstoy
» Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

- Leo Tolstoy
» It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with
the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into
the scripts.
- Barry Took
» It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most
likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more
ambitious goal beyond it.
- Arnold J. Toynbee
» There is a kind of intellectual provincialism in the dogma that life is just one damned
thing after another. human affairs do not become intelligible until they are seen as a
whole.
- Arnold J. Toynbee
» In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're
pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without
anxiety.
- A. W. Tozer
» For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but
that once it has been tossed behind, like Deucalion's little stone, it acquires a separate and
vivid life of its own.
- Spencer Tracy
» Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.
- Simon Travaglia
» I have to believe there's some other life force out there. I don't know in what form. But
we can't have all these galaxies and universes without something going on.
- John Travolta
» It's very important in life to know when to shut up. You should not be afraid of silence.
- Alex Trebek
» Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.

- G. M. Trevelyan
» The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
- Calvin Trillin
» My life is one long curve, full of turning points.

- Pierre Trudeau
» My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician.

And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.
- Harry S. Truman
» Our conference in 1945 did much more than draft an international agreement among 50
nations. We set down on paper the only principles which will enable civilized human life
to continue to survive on this globe.
- Harry S. Truman
» A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of
moderation.
- Donald Trump
» Everything in life is luck.

- Donald Trump
» My life has been a series of emergencies.

- Lana Turner
» All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
- Ted Turner
» The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
- Ted Turner
» All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
» Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out
inside.
- Mark Twain
» The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half
consists of the chance without the capacity.
- Mark Twain
» When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
» Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of
gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into
the world.
- Mark Twain
» I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as
possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and
hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.
- Shania Twain
» Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I
don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've
worked all my life to have this.
- Shania Twain
» Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down.
Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
- Shania Twain
» A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music.
- Conway Twitty
» Love what I do and I have no regrets, but the people I care about are by far the most
important thing. I would kill for them. They make my life worth living.
- Liv Tyler
» Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see
Life with a clearer view again.
- Alex Tan
» Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

- Deborah Tannen
» Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors
of life reduce themselves.
- Edwin Way Teale
» The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

- Thales
» If they ever do my life story, whoever plays me needs lots of hair color and high heels.
- Charlize Theron
» The public has invested in this story. It participates, it judges, it condemns, it pities. It's
a second life for a lot of people.
- Roger Therond
» I remember those happy days and often wish I could speak into the ears of the dead the
gratitude which was due to them in life and so ill-returned.
- Gwyn Thomas
» I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in
fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or
spends the rest of one's life lying about it.
- Marlo Thomas
» Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a
new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I
move forward.
- Andrea Thompson
» Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous
achievement, they just didn't do one thing-like the architect who didn't build St Paul's. I
didn't quite build St Paul's, but I stood on more mountaintops than possibly I deserved.
- Lord Thorneycroft
» I did not risk my life on the beaches of Normandy to come back to this country and sit
idly by while a bunch of hack politicians whittles away your heritage and mine.
- Strom Thurmond
» He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even
while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
- Ludwig Tieck
» We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

- Jean Toomer
» Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running
away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the
handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
- Paul Tournier
» Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the
consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
- Paul Tournier
» Sirs, I have tested your machine [a gramophone]. It adds a new terror to life and makes
death a long-felt want.
- Herbert Beerbohm Tree
» My life would be in danger if I return to Mexico.
- Gloria Trevi
» A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he
plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
- D. Elton Trueblood
» Hitchcock loves to be misunderstood, because he has based his whole life around
misunderstandings.
- Francois Truffaut
» American democracy was born of no theorist's dream; it was not carried in the Susan
Constant to Virginia, nor in the Mayflower to Plymouth. It came stark and strong and full
of life out of the American forest, and it gained new strength each time it touched a new
frontier.
- Frederick Jackson Turner
» Every life has a measure of sorrow, and sometimes this is what awakens us.
- Steven Tyler
» Over the long haul of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of
business, who are the ultimate accountants.
- Stewart L. Udall
» All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.

- Morihei Ueshiba
» All the principles of heaven and earth are living inside you. Life itself is truth, and this
will never change. Everything in heaven and earth breathes. Breath is the thread that ties
creation together.
- Morihei Ueshiba
» All things, material and spiritual, originate from one source and are related as if they
were one family. The past, present, and future are all contained in the life force. The
universe emerged and developed from one source, and we evolved through the optimal
process of unification and harmonization.
- Morihei Ueshiba
» When life is victorious, there is birth; when it is thwarted, there is death. A warrior is
always engaged in a life-and-death struggle for Peace.
- Morihei Ueshiba
» She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry.
- Louis Untermeyer
» Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home,
wondering why the hell you went.
- John Updike
» The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work,
the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.
- John Updike
» Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to
look up at the stars.
- Henry Van Dyke
» Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up
at the stars.
- Henry Van Dyke
» There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live
it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.
- Henry Van Dyke
» As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the
difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.
- Vincent Van Gogh
» What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

- Vincent Van Gogh
» Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption
of insults tends to balance out.
- Raoul Vaneigem
» I have this theory of life that there are four popular people in high school and then there
are the rest of us. I write movies for the rest of us who never peaked in high school. For
the people that did peak in high school and then realized later that it's all downhill,
welcome to the movie as well.
- Nia Vardalos
» You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to
just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way.
- Nia Vardalos
» Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft
them for civilian life as needed.
- Bill Vaughan
» Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft
them for civilian life as needed.
- Bill Vaughn
» There's a greater law than the FDA, and that is an obligation of a doctor to try to do
anything he can to save a life when he thinks that there's a chance.
- Cecil Vaughn
» I had to focus on some personal areas in my life with the little bit of privacy that I have.
- Mario Vazquez
» In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all
civilised men's eyes.
- Thorstein Veblen
» Seriously, teen movies are great. It's work. And it's fun. But I want a real movie. About
a real life situation.
- Alexa Vega
» So now it is time to disassemble the parts of the jigsaw puzzle or to piece another one
together, for I find that, having come to the end of my story, my life is just beginning.
- Conrad Veidt
» The one thing I look for everywhere is beauty. I find it everywhere, and in almost every
person. A lovely painting, a good book, or music moves me. It has a life of its own. But I
get just as satisfying a thrill when I look at streets wet with rain or see a typist's quick
fingers traveling with precision over her keyboard.
- Conrad Veidt
» Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to
change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas,
the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.
- Ben Vereen
» The main action of all such minds must evidently be as independent of the will as is the
life in a plant or a tree; and, as they are but different results of the same great vital energy
in nature, we cannot but feel that the works of genius are as much a growth as are the
productions of the material world.
- Jones Very
» We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this
subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them
see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
- Gore Vidal
» Death gives life its fullest reality.

- Anthony Dalla Villa
» Contact with a high-minded woman is good for the life of any man.
- Henry Vincent
» As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
» Our life is made by the death of others.

- Leonardo da Vinci
» Real life in Paris, the waiting-for-a-bus kind of existence that goes on without ever
crossing the tracks to the city's elegance and worldly ambitions, moves on its own,
without manifestoes or injunctions to stop it.
- John Vinocur
» We journey on in life through varied hazards and misfortunes.

- Virgil
» The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely
the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
- David Viscott
» When we're talking about the things that matter most in life - we're not Republicans,
Democrats or Independents. We're all parents and grandparents, children, teachers and
students. We're all Louisianians.
- David Vitter
» What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could
be dancing around the real subject of life.
- Paul A. Volcker
» Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways.
- Alexander Volkov
» My life is a struggle.
- Voltaire
» The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can
enjoy life and have no fear from death.
- Voltaire
» If we have been brought up with the idea that life is for suffering and sacrifice, then of
course we would seek death to escape this 'vale of tears'.
- Claude Vorilhon
» To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those
who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of
living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.
- Claude Vorilhon
» A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your
current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.
- Denis Waitley
» A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a
shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
- Denis Waitley
» Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a
continuous learning experience.
- Denis Waitley
» Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well.
- Denis Waitley
» That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come.
Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
- Denis Waitley
» The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily
experience worthwhile.
- Denis Waitley
» The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the
other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have
done, or what they can't do.
- Denis Waitley
» The winners in life treat their body as if it were a magnificent spacecraft that gives
them the finest transportation and endurance for their lives.
- Denis Waitley
» The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand
things well.
- Horace Walpole
» A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally feminine and that's all right; she can
work, she can stay at home; she can be aggressive; she can be passive; she can be any
way she wants with a man. But whenever there are the kinds of choices there are today,
unless you have some solid base, life can be frightening.
- Barbara Walters
» I was a skinny, scrawny guy. I stuttered horrendously, couldn't speak at all. I was a very
shy, reserved player and a very shy, reserved person. I found a safe place in life in
basketball.
- Bill Walton
» One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King,Jr. His life
exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I
hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.
- Zack Wamp
» Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
- Charles Dudley Warner
» When I finished school, I took my entire life savings - $5,000 - and invested it in a
business. I was young. I was inexperienced. But I was an entrepreneur, and I was proud.
And in six weeks, I was broke.
- Mark Warner
» Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.

- Earl Warren
» In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life
if he is denied the opportunity of an education.
- Earl Warren
» A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half
your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with
life, you get released.
- Robert Penn Warren
» The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end,
the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see
is life.
- Robert Penn Warren
» I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has
reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
- Booker T. Washington
» Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by
the obstacles which he has overcome.
- Booker T. Washington
» My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I
attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received
from her.
- George Washington
» Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is
that none of it has tried to contact us.
- Bill Watterson
» The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never
tried to contact us.
- Bill Watterson
» Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

- Simone Weil
» Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence
of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the
crowd is never conscious of it.
- Simone Weil
» When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual
authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more
naturally to men than murder.
- Simone Weil
» Among the notable things about fire is that it also requires oxygen to burn - exactly like
its enemy, life. Thereby are life and flames so often compared.
- Otto Weininger
» The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
- Orson Welles
» A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.
- Eudora Welty
» I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well.
For all serious daring starts from within.
- Eudora Welty
» It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
- Mae West
» If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
» You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.
- Jerry West
» Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

- E. B. White
» A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet
so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.
- Minor White
» I hope young people will see how I changed my life and how it's up to them to make
changes in their own lives to succeed.
- Barry White
» A gent I know whose life is superfluidity. Took a job in CBS Continuity. One night
after too much Scotch paregoric, He turned in a script just too prehistoric. He was fired
and said, as he read his doxology I thought they would like my Paley-ontology.
- Paul W. White
» It is born to every Western girl to like outdoor life and to do all kinds of wild, daring
things.
- Pearl White
» Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its
existing language.
- Alfred North Whitehead
» One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
» The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

» Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror,
and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
- Walt Whitman
» I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe
something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
- Elie Wiesel
» The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's
indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life
is not death, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
» It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a
mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
» 'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth
while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.
» All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than
art imitates life.
- Oscar Wilde
» If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from
the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified
your days.
- Oscar Wilde
» In married life three is company and two none.

- Oscar Wilde
» Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are
dead.
- Oscar Wilde
» The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary
for both parties.
- Oscar Wilde
» There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being
talked about.
- Oscar Wilde
» I'm not an over-dominant person. I don't go around and expect everyone to listen to me
the whole time. But I like to be in control of my life because I have so many people
around me, I can get pulled in one direction and then the other. If I don't have any say in
it, then I end up just losing complete control and I don't like the idea of that. I could
actually lose my identity.
- Prince William
» A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are
survived with grace.
- Tennessee Williams
» Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is
someone to take hold of you - gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
» Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with
the basic means of salvation.
» The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love.
Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I
think that's true of everyone, don't you?
» All my life I've been waiting for this, and now it can happen. A Williams is going to
win.
- Richard Williams
» All my life I've kinda dreamed of being the best, and doing the best, and it hasn't
always been easy for me. So I've been trying, but it's really special to have come such a
long way, it's just really fulfilling. And the fact that I'm just making history right now and
the fact that I was able to win four in a row, it doesn't happen every day.
- Serena Williams
» I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another
fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep
smiling.
- Serena Williams
» I'm a bit hesitant to do anything because I'm actually kind of lazy and I'd like an easier
life from now on. The world's a massive place with lots of early mornings and late starts
when you're working.
- Robbie Williams
» Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be
doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the
size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time.
- Robbie Williams
» Dr. Miller says we are pessimistic because life seems like a very bad, very screwed-up
film. If you ask What the hell is wrong with the projector? and go up to the control room,
you find it's empty. You are the projectionist, and you should have been up there all the
time.
- Colin Wilson
» It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring
a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment
entirely in the attempt.
- Edward O. Wilson
» I'm a minor player in my own life story.

- Tony Wilson
» I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every
conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
- Oprah Winfrey
» I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over
fear.
- Oprah Winfrey
» I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read
about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.
- Oprah Winfrey
» The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
- Oprah Winfrey
» There's more to life than cheek bones.

- Kate Winslet
» Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to
mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those
who live in the present.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
» I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I
am not thrown off at this very moment.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
» It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want
apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
- P. G. Wodehouse
» Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.
- P. G. Wodehouse
» Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.

- James Wolcott
» Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from
escaping you?
- Tom Wolfe
» The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from
being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men,
is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
- Tom Wolfe
» Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from
escaping you.
- Thomas Wolfe
» You can't base your life on other people's expectations.

- Stevie Wonder
» I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with
intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a
rubber brick with my pyjamas on.
- Victoria Wood
» I'm famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the Earth because I
figure a) They pay my salary, and b) It's probably like a big moment in your life to meet
somebody so I would say, just come on up.
- James Woods
» Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life
at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
- Virginia Woolf
» Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-
transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
- Virginia Woolf
» Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least
of every year, was made obvious.
- Virginia Woolf
» Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which
perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to
thee of no price at all.
- Virginia Woolf
» The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each
other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic,
yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
- Virginia Woolf
» The middlebrow is the man, or woman, of middlebred intelligence who ambles and
saunters now on this side of the hedge, now on that, in pursuit of no single object, neither
art itself nor life itself, but both mixed indistinguishably, and rather nastily, with money,
fame, power, or prestige.
- Virginia Woolf
» This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the
courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other
people say.
- Virginia Woolf
» With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see
into the life of things.
- William Wordsworth
» Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I
chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
» Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
» I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too
intimate contacts with my own furniture.
» No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express
or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of
life when the buildings were built.
» 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.
» The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

» I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no
matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense
of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
- Richard Wright
» The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it.
Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.
- Terry Waite
» Appreciation of life itself, becoming suddenly aware of the miracle of being alive, on
this planet, can turn what we call ordinary life into a miracle.
- Dan Wakefield
» Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning
to life after all.
- Helmut Walcha
» They are babies in waiting, life on ice.

- Claudia Wallis
» During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and,
as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my
own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.
- Mika Waltari
» The packaging for a microwavable microwave dinner is programmed for a shelf life of
maybe six months, a cook time of two minutes and a landfill dead-time of centuries.
- David Wann
» Orson was a beautiful man, he was not only a genius as a director, an actor, a writer but
as a person he was bigger than life and I don't mean just in girth. He was a wonderful,
wonderful mind and a wonderful disposition.
- Ruth Warrick
» The saying of John Peale Bishop is worth recalling, that the South excelled in two
things which the French deem essential to civilization: a code of manners and a native
cuisine. Both are apt to suffer when life is regarded as a means to something else.
Efficiency and charm are mortal enemies, and Southern charm indubitably derives from a
carelessness about the efficient aspects of life.
- Richard Weaver
» After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever
that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los
Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.
- Gary Webb
» You reach a certain point in your life where they things you do and say do make a
difference.
- Jimmy Webb
» Precisely the ultimate and most sublime values have retreated from public life either
into the transcendental realm of mystic life or into the brotherliness of direct and personal
human relations.
- Max Webber
» The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.

- Dave Weinbaum
» The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a
little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
- Steven Weinberg
» What I hate about those cookery shows is the whole, 'I've got a perfect life because I've
got scallops and creme fraiche in the fridge and you're just a fat peasant' idea - because
everybody's got fresh ginger in the fridge, you know.
- Arabella Weir
» This morning this young man does what his time in seminary was preparing him to do,
and what for the rest of his life will be the primary activity of his ministry.
- Edgar Wells
» If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every
moment. a lot of people don't appreciate the moment until it's passed.
- Kanye West
» Nothing in life is promised except death.

- Kanye West
» There is no life that does not contribute to history.

- Dorothy West
» The problem is that you have a disease, but the disease is abnormal integrity, loyalty to
a view of the world that the schizophrenic is willing to stake his life on.
- Carl Whitaker
» I gave her life, I can take life away.

- Mary Beth Whitehead
» My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

- Kim Wilde
» My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shades of
evening close Is scattered on the ground - to die.
- Richard Henry Wilde
» My country, wounded to the heart, could I but flash along thy soul, electric power to
rive apart, the thunder-clouds that round thee roll, and, by my burning words, uplift, thy
life from out Death's icy drift, till the full splendors of our age, shone round thee for thy
heritage.
- Jane Wilde
» Tis midnight, falls the lamp-light dull and sickly, on a pale and anxious crowd, through
the court, and round the judges, thronging thickly, with prayers none dare to speak aloud.
Two youths, two noble youths, stand prisoners at the bar- You can see them through the
gloom- In pride of life and manhood's beauty, there they are awaiting their death doom.
- Jane Wilde
» It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
» The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into
momentum.
- Frances E. Willard
» Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

- Dar Williams
» What I'm doing is a dream come true but at the same time its work. It's like anything
else. The only time it doesn't really feel like work to me is when I'm on stage and doing
what I've prepared myself for my whole life which is to stand out in front of a crowd and
sing.
- Gretchen Wilson
» My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
- Beatrice Wood
» The Hollywood cinema, dominated by corporations, is now (with even the future of life
on the planet in jeopardy) given over to the project of 'not letting people think'.
- Robin Wood
» There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

- Alexander Woolcott
» My life has ever been devoted to her service from my youth up, though never before in
a cause like this - a cause for which I would most cheerfully risk and lay down my life.
- David Wooster
» The real tragedy of life is not in being limited to one talent, but in the failure to use that
one talent.
- Edgar W. Work
» Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
- Frank Loyd Wright
» You are about to begin the hero's journey. Travel well on the quest. A life of More is
your birthright. Know the vast resource that reside in you and are provided for you in the
world. You have raised the battle cry of There Must Be More Than This.
- Judith Wright
» I'm one who seriously hates human life and would kill again.
- Aileen Wuornos
» There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life
suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I
suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friends.
- Boris Yeltsin
» The secret of the magic of life consists in using action in order to attain non-action. One
must not wish to leap over everything and penetrate directly.
- Lu Yen
» Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
- Edward Young
» Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches
it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is
only by the giving of life that we can have life.
- E. J. Young
» There are things in your life you can control - and there are variables you can't. The
more diligent you are at controlling what you can, the more influence you'll have over
your destiny. You just have to figure out which are which.
- Carlton Young
» There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go
forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as
you advance.
- Vash Young
» The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.
- Arthur Young
» I believe that a life without religion is, truly, an impoverished existence. I believe in the
efficacy of prayer and have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith.
- Loretta Young
» No woman can really tell-sometimes she doesn't even realize-all the things she learns
when the man of her life replaces the Prince of her dreams.
- Loretta Young
» Sometimes, a woman filled with all sorts of uncertainties in most of the areas of life and
emotion, will have her only confidence and independence in her fashion-sense. I'm sure
this is a misfortune. Fashion should not be expected to serve in the stead of courage or
character.
- Loretta Young
» I had a book, which was stolen, the art of the life of the character, in which you present
a whole life in three of four pages. I used that method.
- Marguerite Young
» When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality,
but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that
it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbling of reality
and you accept it.
- Marguerite Young
» The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in
rap!
- Jay Z
» Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a
bath.
- Richard Zera
» I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the
many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if
your home life is in shambles.
- Zig Ziglar
» If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help
enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
» You can have everything in life that you want if you will just help enough other people
get what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
» You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit
those situations.
- Zig Ziglar
» Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what
happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive
attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst,
a spark that creates extraordinary results.
- Anon.
» To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of
children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;
to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether
by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life
has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.
- Anon.
» You've never lived until you've almost died, for those who fought for it, life has a flavor
the protected will never know.
- Anon.
» Everything in life depends on how that life accepts its limits.

- James Baldwin
» The man who can but sketch his purpose beforehand in words is regarded as a wonder,
and every artist and writer possesses that faculty. But gestation, fruition, the laborious
rearing of the offspring, putting it to bed every night full fed with milk, embracing it
anew every morning with the inexhaustible affection of a mother's heart, licking it clean,
dressing it a hundred times in the richest garb only to be instantly destroyed; then never
to be cast down at the convulsions of this headlong life till the living masterpiece is
perfected which in sculpture speaks to every eye, in literature to every intellect, in
painting to every memory, in music to every heart! --this is the task of execution. The
hand must be ready at every moment to work in obedience to the mind.
- Honor� de Balzac
» We can easily become as much slaves to precaution as we can to fear. Although we can
never rivet our fortune so tight as to make it impregnible, we may by our excessive
prudence squeeze out of the life that we are guarding so anxiously all the adventurous
quality that makes it worth living.
- Randolph Bourne
» If your energy is as boundless as your ambition, total commitment may be a way of life
you should seriously consider.
- Joyce Brothers
» Metaphor is the currency of knowledge. I have spent my life learning incredible

amounts of disparate, disconnected, obscure, useless pieces of knowledge, and they have
turned out to be, almost all of them, extremely useful.
- Chandler Burr
» Grief and tragedy and hatred are only for a time. Goodness, remembrance and love
have no end, and the Lord of life holds all who die and all who mourn.
- George W. Bush
» Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life
seen in the newspapers is another.
- G. K. Chesterton
» We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

- Sir Winston Churchill
» The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as
the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is
not to have conquered but to have fought well.
» Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to

understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
» April is the cruellest month, breeding

Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory out of desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in a forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
- TSEliot
» The results of life are uncalculated and uncalculable. The years teach much which the
days never know. The persons who compose our company, converse, and come and go,
and design and execute many things, and somewhat comes of it all, but an unlooked for
result. The individual is always mistaken. He designed many things, and drew in other
persons as coadjutors, quarrelled with some or all, blundered much, and something is
done; all are a little advanced, but the individual is always mistaken. It turns out
somewhat new, and very unlike what he promised himself.
» Man's Search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a 'secondary
rationalization' of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must
and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will
satisfy his own will to meaning... Man, however, is able to live and even to die for the
sake of his ideals and values!
- Victor Frankl
» That man can destroy life is just as miraculous a feat as that he can create it, for life is
the miracle, the inexplicable. In the act of destruction, man sets himself above life; he
transcends himself as a creature. Thus, the ultimate choice for a man, inasmuch as he is
driven to transcend himself, is to create or to destroy, to love or to hate.
- Erich Fromm
» It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with
your life that counts.
- Millard Fuller
» It was a folly, with the materiality of this daily life pressing so intrusively upon me, to
attempt to fling myself back into another age; or to insist on creating a semblance of a
world out of airy matter . . . This wiser effort would have been, to diffuse thought and
imagination through the opaque substance of to-day, and thus make it a bright
transparency . . . to seek resolutely the true and indestructible value that lay hidden in the
petty and wearisome incidents and ordinary characters with which I was now conversant.
The fault was mine. The page of life that was spread out before me was dull and
commonplace, only because I had not fathomed its deeper import. A better book than
I shall ever write was there . . . These perceptions came too late . . . I had ceased to be a
writer of tolerably poor tales and essays, and had become a tolerably good Surveyor of
the Customs. That was all.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
» Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead.

When Death claims the light of my brow
No flowers of life will cheer me: instead
You may give me my roses now!
- Thomas F. Healey
» A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven.
An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking
the name of the Lord in vain�then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for
eternity. Is that the system?
» Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me
liberty, or give me death!
- Patrick Henry
» I was only trying to live my life in accordance with the principles which sprang from
my own true self. Why was that so very difficult?
- Hermann Hesse
» Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.
- Ernest Holmes
» I slept and dreamed that life was beauty.

I awoke -- and found that life was duty.
- Ellen Stugis Hooper
» Well, Son, I tell you, life for me aint been no crystal stair.
Its been hard and bare and rough places on the floor,
But all the while I'se been climbing, and going forth
In the dark, cause there ain't been no light.
So dont you sit down cause its kinds hard,
Dont you quit because its rough
Cause you see, I'se still climbing
And life for me aint been no crystal stair.
- Langston Hughes
» The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.

- Victor Hugo
» The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves,
or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo
» �I did not know then that pride is a wonderful, terrible, thing, a seed that bears two
vines, life and death.�
- James Hurst
» Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James
» This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.
- William James
» The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
- William James
» If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better
reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily . . . and I never
would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
- Bruce Jenner
» In the second half of life the necessity is imposed of recognizing no longer the validity
of our former ideals but of their contraries. Of perceiving the error in what was
previously our conviction, of sensing the untruth in what was our truth, and of weighing
the degree of opposition, and even of hostility, in what we took to be love.
- Carl Gustav Jung
» This is a great country, and it wasn't made so by angry people. We have a sacred duty
to bequeath it to our grandchildren in better shape than however we found it. We have a
long way to go and we're not getting any younger.Dante said that the hottest place in Hell
is reserved for those who in time of crisis remain neutral, so I have spoken my piece, and
thank you, dear reader. It's a beautiful world, rain or shine, and there is more to life than
winning.
- Garrison Keillor
» The gains in life come slowly and the losses come on suddenly. You work for years to
get your life the way you want it and buy the big house and the time share on Antigua
and one afternoon you�re run down by a garbage truck and lie in the intersection, dazed,
bloodied, your leg unnaturally bent, and suddenly life becomes terribly challenging for
six months.
- Garrison Keillor
» Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the
world today: how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages,
and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together?
- Clyde Kluckhohn
» Can you see the holiness in those things you take for granted--a paved road or a
washing machine? If you concentrate on finding what is good in every situation, you will
discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the
soul.
- Rabbi Harold Kushner
» Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
and things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art; to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
» There are two sorts of curiosity -- the momentary and the permanent. The momentary is
concerned with the odd appearance on the surface of things. The permanent is attracted
by the amazing and consecutive life that flows on beneath the surface of things.
- Robert Lynd
» The life most pleasing to God, is that which is spent in most usefulness to our fellow-
creatures. A man cannot love his God, and hate his brother: he cannot expect mercy, who
shows none.
- S. M. M'Corkle
» In describing the Mound-builders no effort has been made to paint their costume, their
modes of life or their system of government. They are presented to the reader almost
exclusively under a single aspect, and under the influence of a single emotion. It matters
not to us whether they dwelt under a monarchical or popular form of polity; whether king
or council ruled their realms; nor, in fine, what was their exact outward condition. It is
enough for us to know, and enough for our humanity to inquire, that they existed, toiled,
felt and suffered; that to them fell, in these pleasant regions, their portion of the common
heritage of our race, and that around those ancient hearth-stones, washed to light on the
banks of the far western rivers, once gossiped and enjoyed life, a nation that has utterly
faded away.
- Cornelius Mathews
» For the first time in my life a feeling of overpowering stinging melancholy seized me.
Before, I had never experienced aught but a not unpleasing sadness. The bond of a
common humanity now drew me irresistibly to gloom. A fraternal melancholy! For both I
and Bartleby were sons of Adam. I remembered the bright silks and sparkling faces I had
seen that day, in gala trim, swanlike sailing down the Mississippi of Broadway; and I
contrasted them with the pallid copyist, and thought to myself, Ah, happiness courts the
light, so we deem the world is gay; but misery hides aloof, so we deem that misery there
is none.
- Herman Melville
» If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your
demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes
more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
- Edward Rickenbacker
» So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear
itself�nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to
convert retreat into advance. In every dark hour of our national life a leadership of
frankness and vigor has met with that understanding and support of the people
themselves which is essential to victory. I am convinced that you will again give that
support to leadership in these critical days.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
» I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to
be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to
stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
- Leo Rosten
» Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.

- John Sales
» History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and
to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far future, conceals the boundaries of birth
and death, which enclose the life of the human being so narrowly and oppressively, and
with a kind of optical illusion, expands his short existence into endless space, leading the
individual imperceptibly over into humanity.
- Friedrich von Schiller
» Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the
conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins
to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of
life than anything he can do himself.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
» If people insist that honor is dearer than life itself, what they really mean is that
existence and well-being are as nothing compared with other people's opinions. Of
course, this may be only an exaggerated way of stating the prosaic truth that reputation,
that is, the opinion others have of us, is indispensable if we are to make any progress in
the world.
» There are in me the seeds from which, if necessary, the universe could be constructed.
In me somewhere there is a matrix for mankind and a holograph for the whole world.
Nothing is more important in my life than trying to discover these secrets.
- Ted Simon
» The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of
having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing
philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily.
- Socrates
» The unexamined life is not worth living.

- Socrates
» He has achieved success

who has lived well,
laughed often, and loved much;
who has enjoyed the trust of pure women,
the respect of intelligent men
and the love of little children;
who has filled his niche and accomplished his task;
who has left the world better than he found it
whether by an improved poppy,
a perfect poem, or a rescued soul;
who has never lacked appreciation of Earth's beauty
or failed to express it;
who has always looked for the best in others
and given them the best he had;
whose life was an inspiration;
whose memory a benediction.
- Bessie Anderson Stanley
» The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide
what you want.
- Ben Stein
» Be thankful. Cultivate an attitude of gratitude. Thankfulness is much more dependent

on attitude than circumstance. When you feel the lack of what you don't have, thank God
for what you do have! At any time, there is more going right in the life of a committed
Christian than there is going wrong. It's just that the wrong makes a lot more noise than
the right.
- Jim Stephens
» The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We

have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what's important and
what's not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities
instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we
forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on outside.
- Robert Stuberg
» For some life lasts a short while, but the memories it holds last forever.
- Laura Swenson
» The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.
Attitude, to me is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than
education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other
people think or say or do.It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will
make or break a company ...a church ...a home.The remarkable thing is we have a choice
everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past
...we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way.
We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we
have, and that is our attitude ...I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and
90% how I react to it. And so it is with you ...we are in charge of our attitudes.
- Charles Swindoll
» Death is the end of life; ah why

Should life all labour be? . . .
All things have rest, and ripen toward the grave
In silence - ripen, fall, and cease;
Give us long rest or death, dark death, or dreamful ease.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
» We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake . . . by an infinite expectation of

the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more
encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious
endeavor.
» Still we live meanly, like ants; though the fable tells us that we were long ago changed
into men; like pygmies we fight with cranes; it is error upon error, and clout upon clout,
and our best virtue has for its occasion a superfluous and evitable wretchedness. Our life
is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten
fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity,
simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a
thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-
nail. In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and
quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he
would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning,
and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify. Instead of
three meals a day, if it be necessary eat but one; instead of a hundred dishes, five; and
reduce other things in proportion.
» Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse. He will go to any
length for it-risk fortune, character, reputation, life itself.
- Mark Twain
» The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid
order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved
system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.
» It is the first step in sociological wisdom, to recognize that the major advances in
civilisation are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur: like unto
an arrow in the hand of a child. The art of free society consists first in the maintenance of
the symbolic code; and secondly in fearlessness of revision, to secure that the code serves
those purposes which satisfy an enlightened reason. Those societies which cannot
combine reverence to their symbols with freedom of revision, must ultimately decay
either from anarchy, or from the slow atrophy of a life stifled by useless shadows.
» From reincarnated sources and through prenatal causes I was born with unquenchable
hope and unfaltering faith in God and guardian spirits. I often wept myself to sleep after a
day of disappointments and worries but woke in the morning singing aloud with the joy
of life.I always expected wonderful things to happen to me. In some of my hardest days
when everything went wrong with everybody at home and all my manuscripts came back
for six weeks at a time without one acceptance, I recall looking out of my little north
window upon the lonely road bordered with lonelier Lombardy poplars, and thinking,
�Before night something beautiful will happen to change everything.� There was so
much I wanted. �Once I read a sentence which became a life motto to me. �If you
haven�t what you like, try to like what you have.� I bless the author for that phrase it
was such a help to me.
» The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit
our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us. We
praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the
highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets. I mean everything that I have
said. I have the greatest contempt for optimism. As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but
one whose growth is arrested. If you want to mar a nature, you have merely to reform it.
As for marriage, of course that would be silly, but there are other and more interesting
bonds between men and women. I will certainly encourage them. They have the charm of
being fashionable.
- Oscar Wilde
» As soon as we started programming, we found out to our surprise that it wasn't as easy
to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can
remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was
going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.
- Maurice Wilkes
» One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big
my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I
was important in the life of a child.
- Forest Witcraft
» I recall that my workshop leaders were tactful in their ways of acquainting me with my
shortcomings as a writer. So much so that I hardly realized they were doing it. I want
always to keep that sort of thing in mind when I'm teaching. The way you get better in
everything in this life is to make mistakes. Otherwise you're probably doing it right by
accident. But you have to do everything wrong before you can really start with some
authority to do it right.
- Tobias Wolff
» It seems to me that people have vast potential. Most people can do extraordinary things
if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people don't. They sit in front of
the telly and treat life as if it goes on forever.
- Philip Adams
» Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy.
- Aeschylus
» In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the
straight way was lost.
- Dante Alighieri
» It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
- Kingsley Amis
» Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.

- Hans Christian Andersen
» Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.
- Anonymous
» The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard
accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and
reasonable nature.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
» The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
» You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were
your last.
» In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good
qualities.
- Aristotle
» After you've been in a place for a while, everything starts to look... I won't say better,
there's no need to go to extremes...but your everyday life does start to become...familiar.
- David Assael
» Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
- Sir Francis Bacon
» Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

- John Barth
» If there was strife and contention in the home, very little else in life could compensate
for it.
- Lawana Blackwell
» Patterning your life around other's opinions is nothing more than slavery.
- Lawana Blackwell
» The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life
whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
- Dr. Smiley Blanton
» All that counts in life is intention.

- Andrea Bocelli
» If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
- Elizabeth Bowen
» Wonder is what sets us apart from other life forms. No other species wonders about the
meaning of existence or the complexity of the universe or themselves.
- Herbert W. Boyer
» But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite
painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious
moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?
- Lois McMaster Bujold
» I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a
commission.
- Robert Burns
» The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are
always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
- John Burroughs
» As Americans, we want peace -- we work and sacrifice for peace. But there can be no
peace if our security depends on the will and whims of a ruthless and aggressive dictator.
I'm not willing to stake one American life on trusting Saddam Hussein.
- George W. Bush
» Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more
afraid of life than death.
- James F. Byrnes
» If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in
hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
- Albert Camus
» Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who
is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
» So if it seems that some of what I'll have to say in the pages to come doesn't reflect the
mellowing of age, that's only because I've never found that life and memories respond to
time the way that tobacco does.
- Caleb Carr
» As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a
meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an
archbishop so you can meet girls.
- M. Cartmill
» She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while,
vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her
through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not
from without. There is no work of art so big or so beautiful that is was not once all
contained in some youthful body, like this one which lay on the floor in the moonlight,
pulsing with ardor and anticipation.
- Willa Cather
» We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard
them.
- Cato the Elder
» Anything that is of value in life only multiplies when it is given.

- Deepak Chopra
» I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say -
that a whole new life has opened before you.
- Agatha Christie
» I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the
emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a
whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or
read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.
- Agatha Christie
» We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

- Sir Winston Churchill
» A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
- Cicero
» A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.
- Cicero
» Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly.
- Cicero
» History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes
memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.
- Cicero
» Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
- Ramsay Clark
» Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not
time properly to attend to pecuniary [monetary] matters. Want of attention to these
matters has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
- William Cobbett
» The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event,
one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that
element of the bizzare which seems inherent in them.
- Jean Cocteau
» Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

- Colette
» Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

- Marquis de Condorcet
» The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not
a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none
has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief.
- Michael Crichton
» Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand

more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
» I think wholeness comes from living your life consciously during the day and then
exploring your inner life or unconscious at night.
- Margery Cuyler
» As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
- Leonardo da Vinci
» Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source
from which self respect springs.
- Joan Didion
» As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best
information.
- Benjamin Disraeli
» Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to
know when to forgo an advantage.
- Benjamin Disraeli
» Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be
an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful
end.
- Dr. Thomas Dooley
» The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired
during the first half.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
» The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox: the
people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that
make people think.
- William O. Douglas
» It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your
very own.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
» It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body
is given a chance to develop a little strength.
- Frank Duff
» Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of
heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days.
- Ecclesiastes
» If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart
» The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage
to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of
human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me
contemptible.
- Albert Einstein
» I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It
seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on
without effort, when I am filled with music.
- George Eliot
» The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the
angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
- George Eliot
» Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own
will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life
both in and out of our consciousness.
- George Eliot
» All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
» Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
» Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The
more experiments you make the better.
» Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

» Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
» The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief
in a brute Fate or Destiny.
» Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

- Epictetus
» There is one thing alone

that stands the brunt of life throughout its course:
a quiet conscience.
- Euripides
» For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves
filed.
- Clifton Fadiman
» If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full
of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will
ever return?
- Margot Fonteyn
» Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
- Benjamin Franklin
» Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
- Erich Fromm
» He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable
and depressed.
- David Frost
» In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive
and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest
after Truth.
- Mahatma Gandhi
» I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.

- Shakti Gawain
» When I'm trusting and being myself... everything in my life reflects this by falling into
place easily, often miraculously.
- Shakti Gawain
» Make your life a mission - not an intermission.

- Arnold Glasgow
» Is there life before death?

- Graffito
» There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you
into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.
- Martha Graham
» Sex should be wild. Unfettered and free. We're animals, aren't we? And, basically,
we're all wolves in sheep's fur. I always wanted more. Not frequency, I am not talking
about frequency; although that would have been great, too. I wanted more intensity. I
wanted to be out there, outside myself, outside my skin. I wanted sex to be like robbing
life out of the jaws of death!
- Robin Green
» Unless a life is activated by sustained purpose it can become a depressingly haphazard

affair.
- Richard Guggenheimer
» Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies.

- Adrienne E. Gusoff
» Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage
momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment.
- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
» Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to
death.
- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
» It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let
your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life
will be safe, expedient and thin.
- Katharine Butler Hathaway
» The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
- Robert Heinlein
» The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

- Thomas Hobbes
» Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
» The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make
one.
- Elbert Hubbard
» Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when
you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
- Victor Hugo
» Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
- Henry James
» Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of
experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.
- Henry James
» The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by
altering his attitudes of mind.
- William James
» The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
- William James
» The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss
of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is
confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are
indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.
- William James
» It is not growing like a tree

in bulk doth make man better be;
Or standing long an oak, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere,
A lily of a day
is fairer in May
Although it fall and die that night,
It was the plant of flower and light,
In small proportions we just beauties see;
And in short measures, life may perfect be.
- Benjamin Johnson
» Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by
chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home,
and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find
themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy
together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before
concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.
- Samuel Johnson
» If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life
more than they do.
- Angelina Jolie
» Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
» A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of
reading is not passive.
- Erica Jong
» Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for.
- David Starr Jordan
» Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially

on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
- Carl Jung
» The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things
without it.
- Carl Jung
» One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.

- Juvenal
» Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the
reason for living.
- Juvenal
» Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to lose what
makes life worth having.
- Juvenal
» The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

- Okakura Kakuzo
» It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

- Garrison Keillor
» Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring
adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
» I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is

thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop doing what I've been doing.
- Alice Koller
» Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this
life has a purpose.
» A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can
blame none but himself.
- Louis L'Amour
» A life lived in chaos is an impossibility...

- Madeleine L'Engle
» It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on
tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater
thing.
- D. H. Lawrence
» Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be
happy to hear that the phone is for you.
- Fran Lebowitz
» People find life entirely too time-consuming.
- Stanislaw J. Lec
» The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not
- Ursula K. LeGuin
» An exile's life is no life.

- Leonidas of Tarentum
» A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how
seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
» To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of
others.
» At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

- Dame Rose Macaulay
» We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that
surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
» Age is�wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly.

- Miriam Makeba
» The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
- Andre Malraux
» We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals
to achieve.
- Maxwell Maltz
» Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight.
Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will
never be the same again.
- Og Mandino
» By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact
with... the earth and the wonders thereof - the sea - the sun.
» Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling
waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.
» Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.

- Marcus Valerius Martialis
» In this life he laughs longest who laughs last.

- John Masefield
» Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be
one long Congressional Record.
- Tom Masson
» D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our
struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I
say when I look round at my children.
» Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

» At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're
living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.
- Phillip C. McGraw
» Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has
about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories:
We would be more alive if we did more of this, and, Life would be more lovely if we did
less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.
- Peter McWilliams
» It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
» Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of
the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, to refrain from meddling in the
affairs of others, to refrain, even though the motives be the highest, from tampering with
another's way of life - so simple, yet so difficult for an active spirit. Hands off!
- Henry Miller
» All I can say about life is, Oh God, enjoy it!

- Bob Newhart
» Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a
beginning.
- John Henry Cardinal Newman
» I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public
service. I've earned every cent. And in all of my years in public life I have never
obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life that I
welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their
President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.
- Richard M. Nixon
» Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts

more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
- Christiane Northrup, M.D.
» But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the
political community is not a human life any longer.
- Martha Nussbaum
» Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,

A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Romania.
- Dorothy Parker
» I've learned that all a person has in life is family and friends. If you lose those, you have
nothing, so friends are to be treasured more than anything else in the world.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone
» One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a
rule of life and there is nothing better.
- Blaise Pascal
» Remember! Things in life will not always run smoothly. Sometimes we will be rising
toward the heights - then all will seem to reverse itself and start downward. The great fact
to remember is that the trend of civilization itself is forever upward, that a line drawn
through the middle of the peaks and the valleys of the centuries always has an upward
trend.
- Endicott Peabody
» Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny,
and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a
train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness
depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.
- Laurence J. Peter
» Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work
some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money.
» Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are
within thy reach.
- Pindar
» Words have a longer life than deeds.

- Pindar
» No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.

- Plato
» The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it.
- Plutarch
» The painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through.
- Jackson Pollock
» A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark.
- Chinese Proverb
» Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which
perchance will neither last nor please thee one year; and when thou hast it, it will be to
thee of no price at all; for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth
when it is satisfied.
- Sir Walter Raleigh
» That which you call your soul or spirit is your conciousness, and that which you call
'free will' is your mind's freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only
freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and
your character.
- Ayn Rand
» A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
- Dan Rather
» When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers or cheap
promises. There might not be any answers to your problems. What you need is a safe
place where you can bounce with people who have taken some bad hops of their own.
- Real Live Preacher
» There isn�t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in
conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your
life because you aren�t really living without it.
» My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is
the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.
» God, I don�t have great faith, but I can be faithful. My belief in you may be seasonal,
but my faithfulness will not. I will follow in the way of Christ. I will act as though my
life and the lives of others matter. I will love. I have no greater gift to offer than my life.
Take it.
» Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it a charm.

- Jean Paul Richter
» If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are
not poet enough to call forth its riches.
» One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new
interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will
always lead to something else.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
» People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is
how character is built.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
» Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth
doing.
» Of course there is no formula for success except perhaps an unconditional acceptance

of life and what it brings.
- Arthur Rubinstein
» The soul is the captain and ruler of the life of morals.

- Sallust
» Music is essentially useless, as life is.
- George Santayana
» Music is essentially useless, as life is: but both have an ideal extension which lends
utility to its conditions.
- George Santayana
» Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is

absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible
improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is
perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first
stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in
consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in
which instinct has learned nothing from experience.
- George Santayana
» Death is the enemy. I spent 10 years of my life singlemindedly studying, practicing,

fighting hand to hand in close quarters to defeat the enemy, to send him back bloodied
and humble and I am not going to roll over and surrender.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
» I feel like I can handle a lot of things. I can handle a parasitic infection and separating
lesions, arterial sclerosis. But this stuff...I just want to go through life thinking people are
happy, naive as that may sound.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider
» If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of
us would be able to endure it.
» My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't
figure it out. What am I doing right?
- Charles M. Schulz
» The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
- Morrie Schwartz
» A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
» You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly
possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with
reality.
- Florida Scott-Maxwell
» It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.

- Vida D. Scudder
» There must be more to life than having everything.

- Maurice Sendak
» It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
- Seneca
» To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known
sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
- Seneca
» While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged
days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.
- Seneca
» I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living,
It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do,
And that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
- Dr. Seuss
» His life was gentle; and the elements

So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up,
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!
- William Shakespeare
» Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; take honour from me and my life is done.
» There is a tide in the affairs of men

Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
» Our revels now are ended. These our actors,

As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
» Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can
assure them it is much more serious than that.
- Bill Shankly
» A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life
spent doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw
» You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that
you will eat, but you will not live.
» Alcohol is a very necessary article... It makes life bearable to millions of people who
could not endure their existence if they were quite sober. It enables Parliament to do
things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
» What is life but a seires of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never
lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
» What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never
lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
» The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to
us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.
- Florence Shinn
» In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or
idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right
habits then, and their future life is safe.
- Lydia Sigourney
» People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

- Logan Pearsall Smith
» There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and
that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.
- Sydney Smith
» The unexamined life is not worth living for man.

- Socrates
» Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position: all that is gained at the expense
of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a
steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after
happiness; it is after all, all the same: the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never
fills the cup to overflowing.
- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
» No man loves life like him that's growing old.

- Sophocles
» Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
- Muriel Spark
» This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed
upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way
that some part of us lives on.
- Oswald Spengler
» Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly
please.
- Edmund Spenser
» If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
- Nadine Stair
» The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is
in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of
light and life no longer flow into our souls.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
» The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
- Ben Stein
» I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is
my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human.
- Ben Stein
» There comes a time in every man's life and I've had many of them.
- Casey Stengel
» I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while
I'm here.
- Payne Stewart
» The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man
trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust
him and show your distrust.
- Henry L. Stimson
» I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and

pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
- Igor Stravinsky
» Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide
by its restrictions. Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich
possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
- Gloria Swanson
» Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
- Barry Switzer
» Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world;
and whoever resues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire
world.
- The Talmud
» The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold then in the right scale of
values.
- Norman Thomas
» The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale
of values.
- Norman Thomas
» Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you
simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
» I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate
his life by conscious endeavor.
» The cost of a things is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged
for it, immediately or in the long run.
» How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
» 'I wish life was not so short,' he thought. 'Languages take such a time, and so do all the
things one wants to know about.'
- J. R. R. Tolkien
» If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living.
- Leo Tolstoy
» It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most
likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more
ambitious goal beyond it.
- Arnold Toynbee
» There is no mystery, at least not the kind you want. In real life there are no fogbound
moors or clues on matchbooks or fifth columnists waiting to be unmasked. it would be
nice if here were, because then there would be solutions to things in life, but it doesn't
always work that way. Everyone likes a good detective story. I went through my
Hammett phase in college. I think the attraction is, in life our mysteries aren't exciting.
You know? They're just intractable and depressing and enervating. Like, why do we
always hurt the ones we love. Where does the money go? ...in a detective story, at least
the universe makes sense. It was him. He did it. The natural order is disturbed, but the
beauty of it is that it's restored again.
- Rogers Turrentine
» Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out
inside.
- Mark Twain
» All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
- Mark Twain
» After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with
the irritating details of outer life.
- Evelyn Underhill
» ...the safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can
enjoy life and have no fear from death.
- Voltaire
» Monsieur l'abb�, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible
for you to continue to write.
- Voltaire
» Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things
she found in gift shops.
- Kurt Vonnegut
» The animals of the planet are in desperate peril... Without free animal life I believe we
will lose the spiritual equivalent of oxygen.
- Alice Walker
» Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.

- Earl Warren
» We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment
of life is a miracle and mystery.
- H. G. Wells
» The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

- Dick Werthimer
» The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each
of us is here for.
- Oscar Wilde
» One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.
- Oscar Wilde
» I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
- Frances Willard
» The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into
momentum.
- Frances Willard
» If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
- Oprah Winfrey
» The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get
there if you're willing to work.
- Oprah Winfrey
» The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
- Oprah Winfrey
» We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.
- Oprah Winfrey
» It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new
adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all
about.
- Oprah Winfrey
» A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his
life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and
increase the misery of a miserable hour.
- P. G. Wodehouse
» Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and
have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.
- P. G. Wodehouse
» If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to
believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
- George E. Woodberry
» I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.

- Virginia Woolf
» Wisdom and spirit of the Universe!

Thou soul is the eternity of thought!
That giv'st to forms and images a breath
And everlasting motion! Not in vain
By day or star-light thus from by first dawn
Of childhood didst thou intertwine for me
The passions that build up our human soul,
Not with the mean and vulgar works of man,
But with high objects, with enduring things,
With life and nature, purifying thus
The elements of feeling and of thought,
And sanctifying, by such discipline
Both pain and fear, until we recognize
A grandeur in the beatings of the heart.
- William Wordsworth
» The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

» As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the
cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are
timeless.
- Rodney Yee
» Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things
undone�The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
- Lin Yutang
» The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

- Zeno
» You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get
what they want.
- Zig Ziglar
» My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow . . . I don't
view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that.
- Bill Parcells
» Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.
- Chuck Palahniuk
» I want out of the labels. I don't want my whole life crammed into a single word. A
story. I want to find something else, unknowable, some place to be that's not on the map.
A real adventure. A spinx. A mystery. A blank. Unknown. Undefined.
- Chuck Palahniuk
» People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has
turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their
future.
- Chuck Palahniuk
» You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.
- Chuck Palahniuk
» That's the American Dream: to make your life into something you can sell.
- Chuck Palahniuk
» When you finally decide how successful you really want to be, you've got to set
priorities. Then, each and every day, you've got to take care of the top ones. The lower
ones may fall behind, but you can't let the top ones slip. You don't forget about the lower
ones though because they can add up to hurt you. Just take care of the top ones first. In 25
years as a head coach and assistant, I think I might have missed one practice. Why?
Because practice is my top priority. A day doesn't go by when I don't accomplish
something in my family life or my profession because those two things are my top
priorities.
- Dan Gable
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Sreedhara K.R. Dare to dream
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» Chaos often breeds life when order breeds habit.

» For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

» The line of life is a ragged diagonal between duty and desire.

» My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

» Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

» The best path through life is the highway.

» The facts of life are very stubborn things.

» Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

» Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.

» Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

» Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

» Your life is what your thoughts make it.

» To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.

» Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.

» Woman embroiders man's life - Embroider is to beautify - The embroidery of

» Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.

» I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my

» A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

» The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

» There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes

» It is a marvelous planet on which we ride. It is a great privilege to live thereon, to

» With renunciation life begins.

» Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in

» Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

» I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

» Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

» Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment;

» For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

» I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day-to-day take on things.

» I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

» The midnight snack of a life in its 70s.

» I wonder if those people shown protesting the deployment of nuclear weapons to

» If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

» I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of

» This way of life is worth defending.

» Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

» It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

» 'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

» It is necessary to examine, in a detailed way, the contemporary theory of Evil, the

» Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.

» The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

» To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it.

» Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

» Control your life through insanity.

» The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

» The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

» Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

» I have met thousands of Canadians individually-in their homes, in their communities, in

» Physicians must be free to make clinical determinations, in accordance with medical

» Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most.

» A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

» The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing,

» Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.

» I really don't like to do back-to-back movies. I concentrate on things at home. My

» Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

» We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

» The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

» We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

» If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.

» Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me

» Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

» Advertising is the life of trade.

» The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.