Life Quotes

Small: One learns in life to keep silent and draw ones own confusions
"One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions"
Cornelia Otis Skinner, Actress
Small: I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport
"I think one of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport"
Jon Anderson, Musician
Small: Ive been in a gym probably nine days of my life
"I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life"
Tea Leoni, Actress
Small: Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life forever
"Sometimes its the smallest decisions that can change your life forever"
Keri Russell, Actress
Small: I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cl
"I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values"
Al Sharpton, Politician
Small: A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that si
"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
Small: Unrest of spirit is a mark of life
"Unrest of spirit is a mark of life"
Karl A. Menninger, Psychologist
Small: Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one
Stella Adler
"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one"
Stella Adler, Actress
Small: There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are th
"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
Small: I think most people live in a space where they are looking for meaning in life and good in the world and that
"I think most people live in a space where they are looking for meaning in life and good in the world and that is not necessarily reflected in straight news coverage right now"
Daryn Kagan, Entertainer
Small: One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On ever
"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, Politician
Small: Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life
"Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life"
Aristophanes, Poet
Small: I look at life, the experiences Ive had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world
"I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us"
Leslie Banks, Actor
Small: You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or priso
"You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison"
Bronislaw Malinowski, Scientist
Small: I was just living my life, and thats what I wanted to do
Fred Korematsu
"I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do"
Fred Korematsu, Celebrity
Small: Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be
"Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled"
Katherine Anne Porter, Journalist
Small: Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care
"Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life"
James Cromwell, Actor
Small: Trouble is part of your life - if you dont share it, you dont give the person who loves you a chance to love y
"Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough"
Dinah Shore, Actress
Small: Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana
"Life does not mean mere karma or mere bhakti or mere jnana"
Vinoba Bhave, Educator
Small: Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace
"Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace"
Karl Barth, Theologian
Small: People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their s
"People before the public live an imagined life in the thought of others, and flourish or feel faint as their self outside themselves grows bright or dwindles in that mirror"
Logan P. Smith, Writer
Small: In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as fir
Tony Visconti
"In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York"
Tony Visconti, Musician
Small: I play- its kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of whats their friends
"I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends"
Joan Cusack, Actress
Small: Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along
Harry Stack Sullivan
"Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along"
Harry Stack Sullivan, Psychologist
Small: A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly
"A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly"
Elizabeth Gaskell, Novelist
Small: The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement
"The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another"
David O. Selznick, Producer
Small: I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing Im sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Eberts c
"I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him"
Vincent Gallo, Actor
Small: The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no o
Ruth St. Denis
"The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space"
Ruth St. Denis, Dancer
Small: Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of
"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"
Eliza Farnham, Activist
Small: I realize were not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I lo
"I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and lets me stay, I love my life so much, it is such a good life. I am eager to throw myself at His feet, but I don't want to get on the first busload that is going"
Barbara Mandrell, Musician
Small: As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last
"As many know, and especially those who may have young sons or daughters at colleges or universities, the last thing you want to hear is a call that perhaps one of your children was injured or, even worse, lost their life in a tragic fire at a dorm or campus housing"
Vito Fossella, Politician
Small: If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the
"If life was so easy that you could just go buy success, there would be a lot more successful companies in the world. Successful enterprises are built from the ground up"
Lou Gerstner, Businessman
Small: Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or br
"Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life. Either you laugh and suffer, or you got your beans or brains on the ceiling"
Wavy Gravy, Activist
Small: The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is dont do it unless youre willing to give your whole life to i
"The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps"
Jim Harrison, Writer
Small: Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performa
"Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance"
James Bryant Conant, Scientist
Small: I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glim
"I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold"
Howard Lindsay, Producer
Small: Hearing the blues changed my life
"Hearing the blues changed my life"
Van Morrison, Musician
Small: People look at me and go, You must have it made. You have girls. You have a great life. Its not true.
"People look at me and go, 'You must have it made. You have girls. You have a great life. It's not true. I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know"
John Stamos, Actor
Small: Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous
Oksana Baiul
"Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person"
Oksana Baiul, Athlete
Small: Im living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay
Portia de Rossi
"I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay"
Portia de Rossi, Actress
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