Life Quotes

"I guess I kind of realized that my whole life isn't one giant press junket. I don't have to be smiling all the time and always have the perfect answer"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"God wants my life to be about being successful and being happy and blessing other people and being blessed"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"No matter how long what I'm doing here lasts, I want to be a songwriter for the rest of my life. I love it and it's my escape"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity"

Malcolm X, Activist

"There's never been a parent in my life"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"He who can live in infamy is unworthy of life"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

"I am perhaps the oldest musician in the world. I am an old man but in many senses a very young man. And this is what I want you to be, young, young all your life, and to say things to the world that are true"

Pablo Casals, Musician

"A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life"

Kinky Friedman, Musician

"For generations, America has served as a beacon of hope and freedom for those outside her borders, and as a land of limitless opportunity for those risking everything to seek a better life. Their talents and contributions have continued to enrich our country"

Spencer Bachus, Politician

"Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices"

Paul Tournier, Author

"I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

"I think that's what makes life interesting - the evolution of getting older, and it's kinda fascinating to me, the whole process"

Alexis Bledel, Actress

"Life is all about having a good time"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame"

Erica Jong, Novelist

"Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself"

Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher

"I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back"

Erica Jong, Novelist

"People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life"

Isadora Duncan, Dancer

"Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life"

Bill Moyers, Journalist

"My entire life has been a lie"

Bobby Darin, Musician

"People have freaked out when I tell them that my dragons are scientifically based... what else can you call a genetically engineered life form?"

Anne McCaffrey, Author

"Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual"

Paul Tournier, Author

"The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself"

Anais Nin, Author

"I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions"

Enoch Powell, Politician

"The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood"

Alice Meynell, Poet

"It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

"The first thing to do in life is to do with purpose what one purposes to do"

Pablo Casals, Musician

"A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen"

Matt Groening, Cartoonist

"My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

"A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far"

Alice Meynell, Poet

"Each instant of life is a step toward death"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

"I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"I would say this in terms of my career, that my career provided me with everything that I wanted, and I think a man is fortunate if he can say that at the end of his life"

E. Howard Hunt, Criminal

"Even without wars, life is dangerous"

Anne Sexton, Poet

"I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance"

Pablo Casals, Musician

"I'd love to go to school and have a normal life, but I don't see any professor at Yale being able to teach me more than Steven Spielberg"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future"

Lou Reed, Musician

"In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

"Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them"

Richard Le Gallienne, Poet

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