Life Quotes

"I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird"

Uma Thurman, Actress

"My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic"

Hosea Ballou, Clergyman

"From childhood on I have had the dream of life lived as a sacrament... the dream implied taking life ritually as something holy"

Bernard Berenson, Historian

"My life has been a series of emergencies"

Lana Turner, Actress

"We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life"

Jim Capaldi, Musician

"We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death"

David Sarnoff, Inventor

"When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future"

Dian Fossey, Scientist

"Lawsuits - and frivolous lawsuits - are just sapping the life out of the people who perform the services and deliver the goods for the rest of the citizenry in the State of Montana"

Conrad Burns, Politician

"I never felt comfortable in real life very well. It's always been an awkward kind of thing for me and so when I hit the stage I just sensed freedom. I sensed here's a place that I can have all the experiences of life and not feel uncomfortable about it"

Nick Nolte, Actor

"Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale"

Elsa Schiaparelli, Designer

"I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward"

John Mortimer, Novelist

"Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit"

Lillie Langtry, Actress

"O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire"

Lewis J. Bates

"Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master"

Joy Page, Actress

"A real parish is a wondrously beautiful web of human relationship which is given meaning by the man who is Himself the meaning of life"

C. Kilmer Myers

"Blythe Danner is somebody whose career I admire. She's a great actress and does good work, but also has a life of her own. I love my job but, at the end of the day, I want to come home and watch a movie and drink a bottle of wine with my husband"

Anna Faris, Actress

"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it"

Ernest Holmes, Theologian

"The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Art is the proper task of life"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life"

Voltaire, Writer

"There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?"

Woody Allen, Director

"Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

"There is just one life for each of us: our own"

Euripides, Poet

"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car... a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little"

Ben Sweetland, Author

"Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living"

Cicero, Philosopher

"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"Life is just one damned thing after another"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect