You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.
~By Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
~By Patricia Velasquez ~
To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.
~By Courtney Thorne Smith ~
Though gay lifestyles have certainly moved into the open, there's little evidence that society has become more open in its basic attitudes or that entertainers should feel cozy in emerging from the velvet underground.
~By Peter Bart ~
No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life.
~By David Starr Jordan ~
We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business.
~By Rick Perry ~
I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life.
~By Bernice Johnson Reagon ~
I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.
~By Simon Callow ~
Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.
~By Isak Dinesen ~
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
~By Al Franken ~
Globalization is a fact of economic life.
~By Carlos Salinas de Gortari ~
Love is energy of life.
~By Robert Browning ~
The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.
~By Stewart Udall ~
Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.
~By Linda Lavin ~
Not by appointment do we meet delight Or joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner of the streets of life they of a sudden greet us with a smile.
~By Gerald Massey ~
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.
~By Barbara Tuchman ~
As soon as there is life there is danger.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.
~By Nolan Ryan ~
School is a foretaste of life.
~By Georg Brandes ~
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
~By Jawaharlal Nehru ~
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
~By Edmond de Goncourt ~
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.
~By Rumi ~
The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.
~By Dennis Miller ~
I have been privileged to have the opportunity to work with many of African American fraternal and social organizations that are active in my congressional district. They all do important work that makes a tangible difference to the quality of life in our community.
~By Chris Van Hollen ~
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
~By Jim Morrison ~
Some men like a dull life - they like the routine of eating breakfast, going to work, coming home, petting the dog, watching TV, kissing the kids, and going to bed. Stay clear of it - it's often catching.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; love's the cloudless summer sun, nature gay adorning.
~By Robert Burton ~
The real business of life is trying to understand each other.
~By Gilbert Parker ~
A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.
~By Tab Hunter ~
When you realize who the good people are in your life, you're so lucky.
~By Sophia Bush ~
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
~By Donald Trump ~
Where there is life there is wishful thinking.
~By Gerald F. Lieberman ~
We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project.
~By Judith Wright ~
The one hit song that I have tremendous gratitude for is Boots, because it has a life of its own. It's like being identified with a brand name.
~By Nancy Sinatra ~
The truth is that relative income is not directly related to happiness. Nonpartisan social-survey data clearly show that the big driver of happiness is earned success: a person's belief that he has created value in his life or the life of others.
~By Arthur C. Brooks ~
I don't need a man in my life.
~By Enya ~
I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
~By J. Enoch Powell ~
People are hungry for messages of hope and life.
~By Morgan Brittany ~
You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.
~By Daisaku Ikeda ~
Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.
~By Patrick Stewart ~
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.
~By Hermann Hesse ~
A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.
~By Whittaker Chambers ~
Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.
~By Gene Robinson ~
Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
~By Ishmael Reed ~
It's really sort of morbid, but she said her mother wanted to see me all her life. And when she died, she made just one request: that a picture of me be put into her casket. So somewhere in England, I'm in a casket.
~By Hank Snow ~
Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.
~By Maureen Forrester ~
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.
~By Lynn Johnston ~
Layer by layer art strips life bare.
~By Robert Musil ~
Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
~By Richard Ford ~
Nothing in life and nothing that we do is risk-free.
~By Ken Salazar ~
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested.
~By Anthony Doerr ~
I think I'd like to stay anchoring because, number one, I'm learning a lot, and I love it when I'm learning. And number two, I also have the luxury of a stable life.
~By Linda Vester ~
What you believe about God has the greatest potential for good or harm in your life.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
Writing music on your own makes you think a lot about your life. Who are you? Would you change anything about yourself? This is where it comes from.
~By Enya ~
And I don't know where I'm heading. I mean, I've got a pretty good idea of what I want in life.
~By Jim Coleman ~
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.
~By Bo Bennett ~
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
It's easier in some ways being on the life raft and the other guy's in the boat and you can row alongside and be supportive. In some ways, that's an easier role.
~By Kyra Sedgwick ~
I'm more interested in enjoying my life and looking after my family than being hugely successful.
~By James D'arcy ~
Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.
~By Charles Schumer ~
Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.
~By Bob Kane ~
Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.
~By Maude Adams ~
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 guess we guess our way through life. How many times do we really know for sure?
~By Chely Wright ~
There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.
~By Emmeline Pankhurst ~
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
~By Plato ~
My life has been devoted to peacemaking.
~By Feisal Abdul Rauf ~
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.
~By George Eliot ~
Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
~By Zane Grey ~
Today America lost a great elder statesman, a committed public servant, and leader of the Senate. And today I lost a treasured friend. Ted Kennedy was an iconic, larger than life United States senator whose influence cannot be overstated. Many have come before, and many will come after, but Ted Kennedy's name will always be remembered as someone who lived and breathed the United States Senate and the work completed within its chamber.
~By Orrin Hatch ~
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
And my life for the first - you know, when I was in my 20s and 30s, I had my career, and I traveled the world, I lived out of a suitcase. I stayed up until dawn. I did all of those things that were very exciting.
~By Cheryl Tiegs ~
I don't want to bust my butt for the rest of my life, like my parents.
~By Jeremy London ~
Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of like a mockery in a sense, kind of stab back at people that have those stereotypical ideas of the south.
~By Bubba Sparxxx ~
I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.
~By Max Beckmann ~
I must say acting was good training for the political life which lay ahead for us.
~By Nancy Reagan ~
There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.
~By Anais Nin ~
Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.
~By Leon Kass ~
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
~By Aristotle ~
I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.
~By Ron White ~
Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.
~By Jesse Ventura ~
Timing in life is everything.
~By Leonard Maltin ~
To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down.
~By Holly Marie Combs ~
In dedicating his estate to the honoring of endeavors that benefit mankind, Alfred Nobel expressed a lifelong concern that is even more timely in 1972 than it was in his lifetime.
~By Stanford Moore ~
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
~By Oliver Stone ~
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.
~By Sylvester Stallone ~
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
The Cube is an imitation of life itself - or even an improvement on life.
~By Erno Rubik ~
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.
~By Edmund Husserl ~
May you live all the days of your life.
~By Jonathan Swift ~
I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it.
~By Laurence Olivier ~
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
It's been a rollercoaster life but it hasn't been boring.
~By Cynthia Payne ~
The poor dog, in life the firmest friend. The first to welcome, foremost to defend.
~By Lord Byron ~
This way of life is worth defending.
~By George W. Bush ~
For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.
~By William Banting ~
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