Life Quotes

"I'm a layperson. I barely got out of high school. I have no business telling people what to do or my big philosophy on life. I'm certainly not going to write any sort of memoir"

Jamie Lee Curtis, Actress

"Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard!"

Jaime Hernandez, Artist

"I've spent a lot of my life among people brighter than myself"

Larry Niven, Writer

"Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time"

Marian Wright Edelman, Activist

"Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made"

Darren L. Johnson, Author

"I've been to therapists my whole life. I find the less attention I pay to food, the healthier I am. Any obsession is dangerous. And a whole country that's obsessed with one thing, unless it's, like, jeans, it's very dangerous. Everyone's obsessed right now with carbohydrates in this country. It's ridiculous"

Christina Ricci, Actress

"Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"The whole order of nature evinces a progressive march towards a higher life"

H. P. Blavatsky, Philosopher

"I believe that everything in life happens for a reason"

Boris Becker, Athlete

"Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule"

Georg Simmel, Sociologist

"The individual has become a mere cog in an enormous organization of things and powers which tear from his hands all progress, spirituality, and value in order to transform them from their subjective form into the form of a purely objective life"

Georg Simmel, Sociologist

"And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical"

Victor Garber, Actor

"As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects"

Solomon Ortiz, Politician

"A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain"

Don DeLillo, Novelist

"I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players"

David Bowie, Musician

"Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it"

Peter Jennings, Journalist

"The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table"

Mick Jagger, Musician

"I'm not into one-night stands. I've only slept with three guys in my life and they all involve relationships"

Katie Price, Model

"For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life"

Jonathan Mayhew, Clergyman

"The United States Jewish population has made many vital contributions in all areas of our society in such ways as helping to develop the cultural, scientific, political and economic life of our country"

Jon Porter, Politician

"There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself"

Hermann Hesse, Novelist

"The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation"

Hermann Hesse, Novelist

"A happy wife is a happy life"

Gavin Rossdale, Musician

"You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself"

Joy Page, Actress

"The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result"

Francis Schaeffer, Theologian

"Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out"

William Christopher Handy, Musician

"Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths"

Drew Barrymore, Actress

"I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better"

Drew Barrymore, Actress

"I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you"

Drew Barrymore, Actress

"When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking"

Sarah Jessica Parker, Actress

"There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew"

A. Bartlett Giamatti, Educator

"Treat your life like something to be sculpted"

Larry Niven, Writer

"I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation"

Don DeLillo, Novelist

"It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life"

Max Frisch, Novelist

"I prefer to commit 100 per cent to a movie and make fewer films, because it takes over your life"

Jodie Foster, Actress

"I was blown away by being able to color. Then I started to draw... bringing a blank white canvas to life was fascinating"

James De La Vega, Artist

"It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self"

Hugo Black, Judge

"In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively"

Gene Tunney, Athlete

"Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows"

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Writer

"But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import"

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Writer

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