Life Quotes

"The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations"

Eli Khamarov, Writer

"In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol"

Penn Jillette, Entertainer

"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

"City people make most of the fuss about the charms of country life"

Mason Cooley, Writer

"Every human life is a fairy tale written by the finger of God"

H. C. Andersen, Writer

"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, Author

"While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed"

Mattie Stepanek, Poet

"Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge"

Paul Gauguin, Artist

"Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating"

O. Henry, Writer

"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, Poet

"We all know scientists who in private life do not come up to the standard of truthfulness, but who, nevertheless, would not consciously falsify the results of their researches"

Franz Boas, Scientist

"Members of al Qaeda and other affiliated organizations spent a great deal of time blending into the populations of several nations around the world and exploring all aspects of life there"

Jo Bonner, Politician

"People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

"Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently"

Agnes de Mille, Dancer

"If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master"

Michelangelo, Artist

"Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life"

Gregory Peck, Actor

"Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking"

Alexander Smith, Poet

"What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver"

Gene Wolfe, Writer

"To throw oneself to the side of the oppressed is the only dignified thing to do in life"

Edwin Markham, Poet

"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, Philosopher

"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, Educator

"I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!"

Stevie Wonder, Musician

"Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

"I think I owe thanks to the people who have listened to me over the years, who tuned in on the radio. They have given me a warmth and loyalty that I've never been able to repay. The way they have reached out to me has certainly been the highlight of my life"

Ernie Harwell, Celebrity

"I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life"

Barbara Bush, First Lady

"Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle"

Peter McWilliams, Writer

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life"

Omar Khayyam, Poet

"If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone"

Donny Osmond, Musician

"Life is a game. Money is how we keep score"

Ted Turner, Businessman

"The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well"

Jose Marti, Activist

"Old age is the verdict of life"

Amelia Barr, Novelist

"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, Novelist

"Music washes away the dust of every day life"

Art Blakey, Musician

"Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life"

Arnold Bennett, Novelist

"Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?"

Jennifer Garner, Actress

"The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression"

Gary Larson, Cartoonist

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