Life Quotes

"In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything"

Molly Parker, Actress

"It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power"

Alan Cohen, Businessman

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend"

Melody Beattie, Writer

"Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life"

Lauren Bacall, Actress

"I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that"

Lauren Bacall, Actress

"I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been to the 'hood. Not that there's anything wrong with the 'hood"

Beyonce Knowles, Musician

"The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is"

Ben Stein, Actor

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want"

Ben Stein, Actor

"Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life"

Jerry Reed, Musician

"Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh"

Martin Bormann, Soldier

"I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress"

Lillie Langtry, Actress

"I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself"

Dan Marino, Athlete

"Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling"

Claude Pepper, Politician

"Obviously you don't want to be anonymous, but you don't want everyone to know your life"

Alison Lohman, Actress

"The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales"

Jonathan Dimbleby, Writer

"India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West"

Gary Wright, Musician

"I'll be 65 in September and I work as much as I want to, take cruises with Kay, relax with my family, do everything in moderation, because I want to enjoy my life"

Frankie Avalon, Actor

"When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life"

Wayne Newton, Musician

"There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself"

Wayne Newton, Musician

"They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends"

Sebastian Bach, Musician

"Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life"

Lydia M. Child, Activist

"Life has become serious for me, although I do like to party every now and then"

Lita Ford, Musician

"To make something look real and alive, nothing can be symmetrical because nothing in real life is symmetrical. You have to make it look organic"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out"

Iris Murdoch, Author

"In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings"

Edmund Husserl, Philosopher

"I believe in justice, maybe not in this life, but there has to be justice. And if there isn't a God, I think it would be very depressing. I'd prefer to believe there is"

David Zucker, Director

"Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys"

Bobby Farrelly, Director

"To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything"

Willie Stargell, Athlete

"The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be"

Walter F. Mondale, Lawyer

"But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me"

Marion Ross, Actor

"I don't really make plans and I just want to be happy and continue with my business and take care of my wife and kids. I want to sit back, relax and enjoy life"

Larry Holmes, Athlete

"I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter"

Tahar Ben Jelloun, Poet

"I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done"

Sheryl Lee, Actor

"After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life"

Rick Danko, Musician

"During the week that I arrived in the United States, I saw an airport, used a telephone, used a library, talked with a scientist, and was shown a computer for the first time in my life"

Philip Emeagwali, Scientist

"It is a curious thing, but I have been right in everything I have done and said in my life"

Lord Mountbatten, Soldier

"I cannot help but think a curious event is this life of mine"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"Fully 57 percent of American college students are women. Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too"

Suzanne Fields

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