Life Quotes

"The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name"

Nancy Sinatra, Musician

"The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains"

Paul Simon, Musician

"The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person"

Julie Christie, Actress

"Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

"It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else"

Patrick Stewart, Actor

"But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills"

William Drummond

"My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much"

Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress

"Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the mental life"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"Army life don't agree with me"

Eddie Slovik, Soldier

"Without literature my life would be miserable"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

"Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life"

Jose Marti, Activist

"For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams"

Pedro Calderon de la Barca, Dramatist

"I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to shoot through the seasons because of the passage of time. This project is the great love of my life"

Madeleine Stowe, Actress

"As an actress, emotions are my business, my stock-in-trade. As such, I've dealt with them nearly all my life"

Loretta Young, Actress

"The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me"

Robert T. Bakker, Scientist

"I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press"

Michael Hutchence, Musician

"Supreme serenity still remains the Ideal of great Art. The shapes and transitory forms of life are but stages toward this Ideal, which Christ's religion illuminates with His divine light"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"In regards to the reaction to Life Is Killing Me, I would say that I'm never happy about anything"

Josh Silver, Musician

"I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle"

Naguib Mahfouz, Novelist

"I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life"

Loretta Young, Actress

"I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges"

Harrison Ford, Actor

"But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion"

Sylvia Plath, Poet

"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt"

Sylvia Plath, Poet

"Enclave life becomes very tense, Even when they do elect a leader, the factions remain, with the threat of splitting off"

Mary Douglas, Scientist

"Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human"

Luis Barragan, Architect

"It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

"I don't know why his lawyers didn't tell him, 'You don't have to answer any questions about your private life, Mr. President. Let them sue you. Take the heat. You don't have to answer.'"

Chris Matthews, Journalist

"Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk"

George MacDonald, Novelist

"Physiology is concerned with all those phenomena of life that present them selves to us in sense perception as bodily processes, and accordingly form part of that total environment which we name the external world"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large"

Wilhelm Wundt, Psychologist

"Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years"

Jean Paul, Author

"It is not my wish to lounge about the college and fatten on a fellowship all my days. I am always trying to look upon a college life as a medium not an end"

Thomas Edward Brown, Poet

"None meet life honestly and few heroically"

Clarence Darrow, Lawyer

"At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life"

Robert Caro, Writer

"While it is challenging working with a kid, because they're so of the moment all the time. My acting style is to try to take something from my life that the character can relate to and that I can relate the character to"

Kyra Sedgwick, Actress

"The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and although I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets"

Carly Fiorina, Businessman

"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life"

Alvin Toffler, Author

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