Life Quotes: Timeless Wisdom and Inspiration (Page 44)

"We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon"

"I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it"

"For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now - that doesn't quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I'm not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN"

Connie Chung, Journalist

"Making an Irishness to be proud of in a real Republic. It is the vision of a real Republic where life and language, where ideals and experience have the ring of authenticity which we need now as we go forward"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"Teaching to unsuspecting youngsters the effective use of formal methods is one of the joys of life because it is so extremely rewarding"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

"To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction"

Chaim Potok, Author

"I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life"

Britney Spears, Musician

"Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life"

Berthold Auerbach, Author

"With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things"

William Wordsworth, Poet

"Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life"

Bette Davis, Actress

"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

"The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life"

Arthur Miller, Playwright

"Life is a gift, given in trust - like a child"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"One can never pay in gratitude: one can only pay 'in kind' somewhere else in life"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

"When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

"Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life"

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

"If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life"

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

"I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track"

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

"I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations"

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

"I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it"

Audrey Hepburn, Actress

"I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table"

Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian

"In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it"

Alexander Smith, Poet

"You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"Life is just a bowl of pits"

Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian

"If it wasn't for pick-pockets I'd have no sex life at all"

Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian

"I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"Good actors I've worked with all started out making faces in a mirror, and you keep making faces all your life"

Bette Davis, Actress

"Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all be bigger than life"

Bette Davis, Actress

"Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake"

Alfred Hitchcock, Director

"Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

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