Life Quotes

"Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death"

Frederick Buechner, Clergyman

"Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior"

Henry Ossawa Tanner, Artist

"Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end"

John Webster, Playwright

"Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat"

Ralph Ellison, Author

"We believe that government works for the benefit of private life, and not the other way around"

Mitch Daniels, Politician

"Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life"

George Sand, Novelist

"I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives"

Paul Simon, Musician

"The men and women of today's VA are dedicated to caring for today's veterans and stand ready to provide for our servicemembers who now defend our freedoms and our way of life"

Steve Buyer, Politician

"Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life"

Branford Marsalis, Musician

"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, Novelist

"People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life"

Neil LaBute, Director

"I think retirement's for old people. I'm still in the business, thank you. I have a young child of nine years old, and I want to live as long as I can to see him grow up. I'm enjoying my life and I want to stick around for as long as I can"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it"

Robert Caro, Writer

"It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it"

Jeremy Northam, Actor

"It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role"

Kyra Sedgwick, Actress

"You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life"

Ethan Embry, Actor

"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, Judge

"Life is lived on levels and arrived at in stages"

Edwin Louis Cole, Author

"The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character"

Alfred Jarry, Writer

"I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else"

Kurt Cobain, Musician

"All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it"

Harry S. Truman, President

"I hope I didn't bore you too much with my life story"

Elvis Presley, Musician

"Many people worry so much about managing their careers, but rarely spend half that much energy managing their LIVES. I want to make my life, not just my job, the best it can be. The rest will work itself out"

Reese Witherspoon, Actress

"Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by"

Lou Holtz, Coach

"Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer"

Jerome K. Jerome, Author

"I think it's better to have your personal life and your work life separate. That way they don't corrupt each other, so to speak"

Zooey Deschanel, Actress

"The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations"

John Wycliffe, Theologian

"Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit"

Philip Pullman, Writer

"It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living"

David Attenborough, Journalist

"I spent almost 3 months with Bergman, four hours every afternoon. We sat and went through the whole script. To be honest, most of the time we talked about life and other different things. It was really a wonderful time"

Bille August, Director

"Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for"

Peggy Fleming, Athlete

"The examined life is no picnic"

Robert Fulghum, Author

"Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"I often quote Ronald Reagan, who is pretty close to my favorite President ever, I will have to say that, but one of my favorite remarks he ever made was that when you look at Federal programs, there is nothing so close to eternal life on Earth as a Federal Government program"

Marsha Blackburn, Politician

"The temptations are great to simply retreat to the domain of private life and give up on our public problems"

Lee H. Hamilton, Politician

"The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn"

David Russell, Musician

"From the death of the old the new proceeds, and the life of truth from the death of creeds"

John Greenleaf Whittier, Poet

"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole"

Roger Caras, Photographer

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