Life Quotes

"Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them"

Ron Chernow, Author

"I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering"

Layne Staley, Musician

"We're newspaper junkies; I can't imagine life without a newspaper"

Sally Quinn, Journalist

"I was 37 when my father died-and I no longer had any freedom of choice over what I would do with the rest of my life"

Paul Getty, Businessman

"I think that's a result of just a general increase in speed of the vibration of life itself"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"I did not imagine that the second half of my life would be spent on efforts to avert a mortal danger to humanity created by science"

Joseph Rotblat, Physicist

"Which is a wonderful irony, I have property there. I go back every chance I get. One of the main reasons I actually wrote the book, agreed to write it having never wanted to do that in my life, very intimidating by the way to write a book"

Sela Ward, Actress

"Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life"

Samuel Alexander, Philosopher

"They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!"

Nellie Bly, Journalist

"As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

"It's about, I did talk about my life in broad strokes and what home meant to me in order to really explore the subject of home and can you go back and what that means for people in that sense of community that we've lost"

Sela Ward, Actress

"Well, I've known Elizabeth almost all of her life and almost all of my life. And I love her with all of my heart and she's always been there for me. She's a wonderful, wonderful dame. She's a great lady"

Liza Minnelli, Actress

"Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life"

Rick Moody, Novelist

"When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

"No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

"As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

"Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life"

Teri Garr, Actress

"Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze"

Teri Garr, Actress

"I am all for the short and merry life"

Edward Fitzgerald, Poet

"But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion"

Todd McFarlane, Artist

"Once is a man's life, for one mortal moment, he must make a grab for immorality; if not, he has not lived"

Sylvester Stallone, Actor

"Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring"

Shelley Duvall, Actress

"I've never been in a barroom brawl in my life. I just don't do such things"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989"

Nadia Comaneci, Athlete

"A celebrity is a person who works hard all of their life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized"

Fred Allen, Comedian

"I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music"

Joan Jett, Musician

"The truth was you can't continue to spend the kind of money our spending on all these entitlement programs. I think we need more people in public life who are willing to say, no, we can't afford certain things. No, we can't do certain things"

Chris Christie, Politician

"You know it's very difficult to be an actor, and to have people depending on you to say the right line, at the right time, and to not be able to hear your cues! I can't tell you how many times I would've had to have said What? if I didn't have my hearing aids. So my hearing aids are a life saver, and they allow me to practice my craft"

Leslie Nielsen, Actor

"The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions"

Paul Klee, Artist

"For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in"

Barbara Tuchman, Historian

"Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life"

Alex Noble

"And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing"

Robert Sternberg, Educator

"We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city. But we also recognize that part of being a New Yorker is living with your neighbors in mutual respect and tolerance. It was exactly that spirit of openness and acceptance that was attacked on 9/11, 2001"

Michael Bloomberg, Politician

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