Life Quotes

"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 It is the modest color of the unpublished blood"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, Poet

"Look, you're on the set for six months, with someone who's rooting to be attracted to you, and you're rooting to be attracted to them. I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death"

Rose Schneiderman, Activist

"Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality"

Alexis Carrel, Scientist

"The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense"

Talcott Parsons, Sociologist

"It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family"

Philip Green, Businessman

"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, Playwright

"I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character"

Maya Lin, Architect

"Life is the art of drawing without an eraser"

John W. Gardner, Educator

"It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience"

Bernadette Peters, Actress

"Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not"

Hans Bender, Psychologist

"I have never in my life played the French Defence, which is the dullest of all openings"

Wilhelm Steinitz, Celebrity

"In this life he laughs longest who laughs last"

John Masefield, Poet

"My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"For my eightieth year warns me to pack up my baggage before I leave life"

Marcus Terentius Varro, Author

"Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world"

Gerard De Nerval, Novelist

"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, Businessman

"Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains"

Jessica Hagedorn, Playwright

"Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death"

Emanuel Swedenborg, Scientist

"Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self"

B. R. Ambedkar, Politician

"There's a sense of spontaneity, and no emphasis on jokes in this show. People generally talk the way they talk in life if you were in this particular situation"

Larry David, Actor

"All that counts in life is intention"

Andrea Bocelli, Musician

"And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us - no matter what our age or background or walk of life - each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation"

Michelle Obama, First Lady

"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, Royalty

"I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things"

Robert Plant, Musician

"Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life"

William Faulkner, Novelist

"There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved"

George Sand, Novelist

"The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too happy. I knew they would not let me be happy"

Eddie Slovik, Soldier

"I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives"

Robert Caro, Writer

"I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions"

Hans Selye, Scientist

"I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it"

Al Jourgensen, Musician

"But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me"

Peter Davison, Actor

"The most interesting guy I've ever played with was King Hassan of Morocco. I went over there on a trip in the early 1970s, and the King and I played five holes. I've never been that nervous in my life"

Lee Trevino, Athlete

"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something"

William Goldman, Novelist

"Life is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt in your face. Then the worms eat you. Be grateful it happens in that order"

David Gerrold, Writer

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