My workout was running down fly balls, stealing a base, or running for my life on the football field.
~By Bo Jackson ~
I know that some endeavor to throw the mantle of romance over the subject and treat woman like some ideal existence, not liable to the ills of life. Let those deal in fancy who have nothing better to deal in; we have to do with sober, sad realities, with stubborn facts.
~By Ernestine Rose ~
I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about.
~By Bubba Sparxxx ~
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.
~By Ty Cobb ~
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.
~By Luis Miguel ~
We all have a responsibility, and since I've been so wonderfully blessed, I really want to share and to make life at least a little better. So every chance I get to share the gospel or uplift people, I will take full advantage of that opportunity.
~By Gladys Knight ~
We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life.
~By William Osler ~
When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.
~By Audrey Hepburn ~
Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.
~By Navjot Singh Sidhu ~
Where there is love there is life.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.
~By Lou Holtz ~
I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Of what use were the arts if they were only the reproduction and the imitation of life?
~By Alfred de Vigny ~
Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.
~By Elizabeth Garrett Anderson ~
I want to feel my life while I'm in it.
~By Meryl Streep ~
I try not to be but I'm super-neurotic about diet. I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic! I'm like every other girl. I have to try really hard my whole life to try to be fit. And I'm super-vain. And I want to wear cute clothes.
~By Gwen Stefani ~
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
~By Henry B. Adams ~
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
~By Arnold J. Toynbee ~
This recession is the deepest in our lifetimes, the deepest since 1929. If you take the people thrown out of work in the 1982 recession, the 1991 recession, the 2001 recession, not only is this bigger, this is bigger than all of those combined.
~By Austan Goolsbee ~
I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... 'cause I'd never seen a train that fast in my life.
~By Ike Turner ~
I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists.
~By Jasmine Guy ~
When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.
~By Mary MacLane ~
As we abide in sleep, intuitively resonating with the sum of all our experiences - this life and beyond - we gain refreshing perspective on our efforts and have an opportunity to remember what we know.
~By Henry Reed ~
What you get is a living, what you give is a life.
~By Lillian Gish ~
I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.
~By Michael Phelps ~
The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.
~By Ali MacGraw ~
Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
~By Ada Cambridge ~
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
~By Abraham Maslow ~
To succeed in life in today's world, you must have the will and tenacity to finish the job.
~By Chin-Ning Chu ~
Take a step back, evaluate what is important, and enjoy life.
~By Teri Garr ~
The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.
~By John Jewel ~
It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.
~By Barbara Bush ~
Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage, which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful, it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.
~By Thomas Haden Church ~
I have committed my life to helping the poor, and I believe that if more companies followed Wal-Mart's lead in providing opportunity and savings to those who need it most, more Americans battling poverty would realize the American dream.
~By Andrew Young ~
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
~By Jean Cocteau ~
The trappings of lifestyle are often that; traps.
~By Thomas Leonard ~
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
~By Aphra Behn ~
The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.
~By Gerald R. Ford ~
Always remember that better days are ahead - if not in this life, in the next.
~By Barbara Johnson ~
I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.
~By William Hurt ~
A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.
~By Alfred Hitchcock ~
I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.
~By John Lennon ~
I don't imagine my parents are too excited about my kind of life. The surrounding weirdness bothers them. Still, I think they're pretty good. Their lives are based on what their friends think, just like ours are.
~By Grace Slick ~
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
~By Stephen Leacock ~
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
~By Nancy Reagan ~
If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction.
~By Scott Turow ~
Life is all about having a good time.
~By Miley Cyrus ~
Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some.
~By Jean Anouilh ~
I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
~By John Mortimer ~
My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.
~By Ruud van Nistelrooy ~
I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.
~By Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ~
There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value.
~By Ellen Goodman ~
Living with the immediacy of death helps you sort out your priorities in life. It helps you to live a less trivial life.
~By Sogyal Rinpoche ~
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
~By Pearl S. Buck ~
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
~By Richard Wright ~
I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.
~By Tatum O'Neal ~
I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will.
~By Billy Ray Cyrus ~
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
The lifeblood of my career has been independent film.
~By James Woods ~
A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that.
~By Dave Davies ~
What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.
~By Saffron Burrows ~
As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers.
~By Phil Crane ~
In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books.
~By Paula Danziger ~
On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.
~By Arthur Henderson ~
One of the hardest things in life is having words in your heart that you can't utter.
~By James Earl Jones ~
The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
~By Dan Quayle ~
I believe that the first 8 years are most important and the time in a child's life when parents must be absolutely and completely present.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.
~By John Astin ~
One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me.
~By Bill Ford ~
Mother Firefly is the kind of character I've always wanted to play. She's larger than life, terribly tragic, and capable of a lot of love.
~By Leslie Easterbrook ~
Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.
~By Alan Rudolph ~
I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.
~By Charisma Carpenter ~
The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.
~By Vince Gill ~
Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.
~By Victoria Pratt ~
After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
~By Sophia Loren ~
For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided.
~By Henri Bergson ~
One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is love.
~By Sophocles ~
My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.
~By Tom Stoppard ~
And love can come to everyone, the best things in life are free.
~By Lew Brown ~
My love life doesn't stink; it's nonexistent.
~By Kevin Eubanks ~
However, lifestyle intervention requires discipline with a tangible end result that is within reach. It requires personal resolve, a lifelong commitment.
~By Tim Holden ~
If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life.
~By Carolyn Wells ~
Absolutely not. I have no problem with commitment. In fact, I love having someone in my life.
~By Matthew McConaughey ~
The hardest thing I had to overcome in life? I think racism. That's so difficult because I don't think anyone can ever understand it. It's not that people don't want to understand it, but they don't want to touch it.
~By Herschel Walker ~
I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
~By June Jordan ~
Real success is finding you lifework in the work that you love.
~By David C. McCullough ~
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
~By S. I. Hayakawa ~
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
~By Walker Percy ~
Love is energy of life.
~By Robert Browning ~
Art is uncompromising and life is full of compromises.
~By Gunther Grass ~
I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?
~By Wilfred Owen ~
I ended up in college by accident. Everything in my life, I ended up in by accident. I was down south in this high school doing whatever. It could just not contain me. I quit school and took off and traveled around. Nobody knew where I was I just couldn't handle it anymore. It was a big scandal, I was gone. I left.
~By Pauley Perrette ~
My life collapsed. People ran from me because suddenly it was 'Oh my God! It's over for her now!'
~By Nicole Kidman ~
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