Life & Living: Life Quotes

"Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect"

Margaret Mitchell, Novelist

"We are driven by five genetic needs: survival, love and belonging, power, freedom, and fun"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"People still come up to me and ask whether I am Louise Brown or if they've seen me somewhere else before?"

Louise Brown, Celebrity

"I never felt any different from anyone else though"

Louise Brown, Celebrity

"We're involved in trillions of little acts just to keep going"

Morrie Schwartz, Educator

"To me, what defines a New Yorker is the edge that one develops from having actually lived here. Once you have it, it doesn't go away, and everywhere else in the world feels like it is in slow motion"

Donald Trump Jr., Businessman

"Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life"

Stefan Zweig, Writer

"Life: my favorite occupation"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"No, not really, it is just like real life. Not everyday you are happy and not everyday you are sad"

Dakota Fanning, Actress

"I was always the child who wore her emotions on her sleeve"

Marcia Gay Harden, Actress

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

Edwin Way Teale, Writer

"We suddenly saw how people reacted in the event of massive social upheaval, and the way that the little problems in your life don't go away. You don't stop being frightened of spiders just because the world's blown up"

Simon Pegg, Comedian

"There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too"

Sharon Stone, Actress

"As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation"

Gloria Swanson, Actress

"I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me"

Anna Held, Entertainer

"I'm really normal. I play football, go to the beach, drive. We have dogs. I can imagine people calling me a character, but I'm Joe Straight"

River Phoenix, Actor

"People care about my personal life. But really I'm dorky! I drink beer and go to football games. And ya know, sit in my house in a t-shirt on the weekends and play with my dog!"

Sophia Bush, Actress

"For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian"

Radha Mitchell, Actress

"I'm 25, so I've already gone through what my character Ged goes through, though it's on a general scale because I haven't studied at a wizard's school"

Shawn Ashmore, Actor

"Our castle is not imposing, but is well built, and surrounded by a very fine garden. I live in the bailiff's house"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"I just went and got an agent because I thought I can create my own world - You can't right your own life, but you can escape to a world where you can have control"

Helena Bonham Carter, Actress

"Our business is with life, not death"

George Wald, Scientist

"I have a rendezvous with life"

Countee Cullen, Poet

"Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"I'm not out there trying to get press for myself nor am I trying to convince anybody that I'm living any kind of a life. I'm actually trying to convince people: I don't want you to know what I'm living, because it's none of your business"

Kevin Spacey, Actor

"I live in Hamburg; that's in the north. And I live on the outskirts of town. It looks like countryside"

Cornelia Funke, Author

"Every life is precious"

Rick Perry, Politician

"I am almost always, when I'm at home in the evening after work, in a silk bathrobe I got from India. Like, I never take off this bathrobe. I have a series of Indian silk bathrobes that I love, and that's what I rock all the time"

Ivanka Trump, Businesswoman

"People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week"

Gay Talese, Journalist

"My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter"

Lizzie Andrew Borden, Celebrity

"It's been quite a ride. I loved every minute of it"

Charlton Heston, Actor

"Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars"

Henry Van Dyke, Poet

"As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey"

Martha Beck, Author

"I've had some tremendous adventures, good and bad. It's part of the novel, and a novel isn't interesting if it doesn't have some good and bad. And you don't know what good is if bad hasn't been a part of your life"

Lynn Johnston, Cartoonist

"I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately"

Lynn Johnston, Cartoonist

"I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with. I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better"

David Strathairn, Actor

"Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous; so would life"

B. C. Forbes, Journalist

"I did not hear her go or come back, but I supposed she went"

Lizzie Andrew Borden, Celebrity

"The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability"

Ronnie James Dio, Musician

"I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us"

Leslie Banks, Actor

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