Life Quotes

"My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward"

"Life is to blame for everything"

"Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers"

Layne Staley, Musician

"I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?"

John Templeton, Businessman

"To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life"

Thomas More, Author

"I have been privileged to have the opportunity to work with many of African American fraternal and social organizations that are active in my congressional district. They all do important work that makes a tangible difference to the quality of life in our community"

Chris Van Hollen, Politician

"You've got to let it go and say it was the best I could do at that time and place in my life. You hope that the thing you're doing next is a little bit better"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life"

Thomas More, Author

"There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye"

Raymond E. Feist, Author

"What I'm trying to do now in my life - not just with the building, but with everything - is to construct things that will have enduring qualities, and won't just be ephemeral flashes in the pan"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. It hasn't been dull; I've been the Hiroshima of love"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change"

Namie Amuro, Musician

"I want to let my fans get to know a little about me. I'm very thankful for everything they've done for me so, of course, I'm going to let them into my world a bit. But I really am a very private person, and I love kepping my life to myself - that's how I've always been"

Vanessa Hudgens, Actress

"I love the show and a lot of what came out of it, like some of the people I met and got to work with, but those were truly some of the unhappiest days of my life"

Jhonen Vasquez, Cartoonist

"Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive"

Sidney Hook, Philosopher

"Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end"

Taylor Caldwell, Author

"I don't think when people sign up for a life of doing something they love to do they should have to sign up for a complete loss of privacy. I understand a little loss of privacy coming with the job"

Sarah Chalke, Actress

"Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?"

Robert Musil, Writer

"I feel grateful because I have a lot of love in my life. I found the person I'm sharing my life with. I have a good man"

Gisele Bundchen, Model

"I'm not going to live my life unhappy and why should he and we talk about it and I think what's great about the film is that it shows is the meaning of family doesn't have to be as traditional as it once was, like you can make a family"

Nia Long, Actress

"In this life and death case, I felt Mrs. Schiavo should receive the fullest due process from our legal system"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it"

Martin Van Buren, President

"You give me nothing during your life, but you promise to provide for me at your death. If you are not a fool, you know what I wish for!"

Marcus Valerius Martial, Poet

"More than seven months ago, our country learned that the horrors portrayed in Hollywood's make-believe world could actually come to life before our very eyes"

Paul Gillmor, Politician

"I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me"

Kenny Loggins, Musician

"If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead"

Johnny Carson, Comedian

"If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead"

Johnny Carson, Comedian

"It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

"Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

"I will ge glad to have done with this life forever"

Taylor Caldwell, Author

"I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions"

Taylor Caldwell, Author

"If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something"

Sandra Day O'Connor, Judge

"My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life"

Peggy Fleming, Athlete

"Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

"I try to practice with my life"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

"It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art"

Margaret Oliphant, Novelist

"I don't need drugs to make my life tragic"

Eddie Vedder, Musician

"The Ice Storm, because of the movie, has had, or is to have, a vigorous life in other cultures"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"Whatever dramas are going on in my life, I always find that place inside my head where I see myself as the cleanest, tallest, strongest, wisest person that I can be"

Layne Staley, Musician

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