Life Quotes

"I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

"If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'"

John Cleese, Actor

"Growth is the only evidence of life"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet"

Orville Wright, Inventor

"Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person"

Warren G. Bennis, Psychologist

"I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again"

Ulysses S. Grant, President

"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be"

Stephen Chbosky, Novelist

"It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life"

Stephen Chbosky, Novelist

"I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows"

Stephen Chbosky, Novelist

"My main goal as an artist is to make people happy and give them an escape from everyday life through my music"

Kygo, Musician

"Being a Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction"

Pope Benedict XVI, Pope

"There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world"

Karl Popper, Philosopher

"I put my money in the bank: I have to think of life after modeling, when I'm not famous any more"

Eva Herzigova, Model

"Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it"

Tom Lehrer, Musician

"I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs"

James Lane Allen, Author

"I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it"

Rafael Palmeiro, Athlete

"Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand"

Wislawa Szymborska, Poet

"I am not preparing myself or my family for anything but life"

Michael Zaslow, Actor

"I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for the betterment for me"

Jayne Mansfield, Actress

"For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail"

John Foster Dulles, Diplomat

"Real victories are those that protect human life, not those that result from its destruction or emerge from its ashes"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life"

Jean Anouilh, Playwright

"I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me"

Rafael Palmeiro, Athlete

"False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports"

Richard Burton, Actor

"We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one"

Jasmine Guy, Actress

"Now it is just this world we like the best, the Germanic world, the world of Nordic life"

Heinrich Himmler, Criminal

"I believe you make your day. You make your life. So much of it is all perception, and this is the form that I built for myself. I have to accept it and work within those compounds, and it's up to me"

Brad Pitt, Actor

"It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life"

Jerzy Kosinski, Novelist

"It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death"

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Writer

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