Life Quotes

"If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is"

"Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life"

"Loud is a way of life"

"But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you"

"It may be, however, that I am too much wedded to my own views in the matter, and as I have spent nearly eight years of the hardest work of my life in this department, I respectfully request that I may now be relieved from its command"

"I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together"

"Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for"

"The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount"

"Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution towards the improvement and enrichment of human life and it is these pursuits that we students are engaged in"

"When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences"

"It was Neuberger who first taught me how to do research, both technically and as a way of life, and I owe much to him"

"The exchange program is the thing that reconciles me to all the difficulties of political life"

"Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life"

"Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil"

"Thug Life to me is dead"

"You can't take life for granted"

"It is as well perhaps that this is not the first time I have been swept off my feet. In the days of my blessed youth there were such occasions; in what young person's life do they not occur?"

"Heaven knows that there are plenty of opportunities in later life, too, for being carried away. What of it? We remain what we are and, no doubt, it is all very good for us!"

"Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car"

"I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches"

"We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government"

"When one man, for whatever reason, has the opportunity to lead an extraordinary life, he has no right to keep it to himself"

"Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans"

"True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness"

"Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good"

"You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long"

"It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave"

"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living"

"Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time"

"The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering that bear and letting him go"

"IT has been observed by several gentlemen, in vindication of this motion, that if it should be carried, neither my life, liberty, nor estate will be affected"

"I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress"

"He lives most life whoever breathes most air"

"A woman's whole life is a history of the affections"

"I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable"

"I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life"

"Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can"

"Through difficult experiences, life sometimes becomes more meaningful"

"The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time"

"The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters"