Life Quotes

"We must hunt the terrorists down and kill them. There is no other way to respond to those so committed to the destruction of life"

"I've been doing this stuff for so long it's the one aspect of my life that I've paid attention to and really sort of not paid attention to the rest of it"

"The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life"

"And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive"

"I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early in my life"

"I've always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry"

"The problems come when your personal life and relationships come under scrutiny in the press and often very uncomplimentary things are printed about you"

"I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts"

"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well"

"I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school"

"The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle"

"Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities"

"The fact is if we do our job right, if we keep worrying not about polls but about the jobs of the American people, about their health care, about their ability to educate their kids, stay in their homes and own their homes, send their kids to college, the basic pillars of a middle-class life, if we keep worrying about the future and building a stronger future for this country, these things will take care of themselves"

"Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive"

"In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it"

"To me I've just really, really found a relaxed, peaceful side of my life and I'm enjoying it"

"Waiting, waiting, waiting. All my life, I've been waiting for my life to begin, as if somehow my life was ahead of me, and that someday I would arrive at it"

"The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types"

"I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it"

"The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage"

"Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society"

"I have lived my life in a culture that hates fat people"

"That was where my dream began to take hold, of not havin' to pick cotton and potatoes, and not havin' to be uncomfortable, too hot or too cold. That in itself had driven me to try to find some better way of life"

"We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life"

"I do not regard it as wrong to take my life, because I simply change my place of residence and go where my wife and baby are"

"If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. She'll look for a husband who embodies those qualities"

"What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable"

"I don't think we realise just how fast we go until you stop for a minute and realise just how loud and how hectic your life is, and how easily distracted you can get"

"Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply"

"If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life"

"Don't get yourself in certain circumstances or instances, because it's not a good feeling to be sitting in that chair where you've got 12 people that are in control of your life. You have an opportunity to be in control of your life for yourself by the decisions that you make"

"To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just wanted to be good in my company in Charleston and I wanted it to always be part of my life"

"I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?"

"I think that life has a secret, and children they hold that secret. Maybe it's not given to everybody to discover this thing"

"I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby"

"All I can say about life is, 'Oh God, enjoy it!'"

"The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life"

"In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing"

"I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life"

"Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves"