Life Quotes

"All my life, all my life that I can, as far back as I can remember, I saw my first movie when I was six years old. And since then I wanted to do that. I wanted to be a part of that"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders"

Ben Stein, Actor

"When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve"

Pat Summerall, Celebrity

"I've been a Raider all my life"

Jim Otto, Athlete

"I'm really just a regular guy who has had an incredibly blessed life"

Bruce Willis, Actor

"The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die"

Juliette Lewis, Actress

"I think my perception of my own life is different and the fact that Lauren and myself are together. I've never felt this free or happy and so that permeates onto my onstage persona and to my working environment"

Rick Allen, Musician

"The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities"

Isaac Disraeli, Writer

"Obviously, you check tht she's safe, she's clean, got all the fingers and toes, like that's going to help them through life. It'll help them walk, but you can't pull them out and check their IQ or anything"

Matthew Ashford, Actor

"In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare"

Sharon Gless, Actress

"Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober"

Jamie Lee Curtis, Actress

"Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am"

Danny Glover, Actor

"One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody"

Alvin Ailey, Dancer

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life"

Brooke Shields, Actress

"Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos"

Jackie Gleason, Actor

"George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique"

Gary Wright, Musician

"Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life"

Kitty O'Neill Collins, Politician

"Life itself still remains a very effective therapist"

Karen Horney, Psychologist

"There is nothing wrong with dedication and goals, but if you focus on yourself, all the lights fade away and you become a fleeting moment in life"

Pete Maravich, Athlete

"People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life"

Lynda Barry, Cartoonist

"All that I can tell you is, that I used my humble powers to the uttermost, and raised my voice in behalf of Human Rights in general, and the elevation and Rights of Woman in particular, nearly all my life"

Ernestine L. Rose

"When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God"

Luis Palau, Clergyman

"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, Actor

"I did my homework and didn't go out much, and had a very highly developed kitsch fantasy life where I dreamed of being a dancing girl"

Emily Mortimer, Actress

"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, Clergyman

"I'd like to think there'll be too much of real life going on for me to want to do much acting"

Julie Walters, Actress

"The message of transformation and how we all can live from our heart, not just from our head, was a very important message for me to learn in my own life"

Judith Light, Actress

"That's life - to turn each other on, to feel good, to feel in love"

Laura Dern, Actress

"Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here"

Rick Danko, Musician

"Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV"

Ani DiFranco, Musician

"Although we will both die, and life is utterly meaningless, my time is vastly more important than yours"

Stephen Evans

"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, Politician

"I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them"

Ernestine L. Rose

"On landing at New York I caught the yellow fever. The kind man who commanded the ship that brought me from France took charge of me and placed me under the care of two Quaker ladies. To their skillful and untiring care I may safely say I owe my life"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"LIfe has got all those twists and turns. You've got to hold on tight and off you go"

Nicole Kidman, Actress

"I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person"

Joanna Trollope, Novelist

"The desire to move into a bigger house, to avoid living AIDS daily, and a dream to be accepted by a community and school, became possible and a reality with a movie about my life, The Ryan White Story"

Ryan White, Celebrity

"If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life"

Isaiah Thomas, Athlete

"If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it"

John Irving, Novelist

"I think I can lead a pretty anonymous life, yeah"

Hugh Dancy, Actor

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