Writing is a dog's life, but the only life worth living.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full.
~By Robert Service ~
At different times in my life I met God from a different point of view.
~By T-Bone Burnett ~
What We want is to make it possible for our unfortunate people to live a life of industry for it is by steady work alone that we hope for our physical and moral rehabilitation. For this reason above all we have undertaken to rally our people around our ideal.
~By Theodor Herzl ~
Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this.
~By Shania Twain ~
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
~By Joan of Arc ~
If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
~By James A. Michener ~
I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.
~By Mike Tyson ~
What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence.
~By Geezer Butler ~
He's meant to be that classic Homer, Ulysses, Hercules - a character who goes out or has some gift of some kind. He goes on a journey of discovery and part of that is falling into darkness - the temptations of life.
~By Robert Redford ~
Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now.
~By Judith Malina ~
I was being called to surrender the very citadel of my self. I was completely in the dark. I did not really know what repentance was or what I was required to repent of. It was indeed the turning point of my life.
~By Bede Griffiths ~
I always wish life could be a musical. One person just says 5, 6, 7, 8.
~By Lucas Grabeel ~
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
~By Robert Foster Bennett ~
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.
~By Walter F. Mondale ~
Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.
~By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
Statues and pictures and verse may be grand, But they are not the Life for which they stand.
~By James Thomson ~
I expect that any day now, I will have said all I have to say; I'll have used up all my characters, and then I'll be free to get on with my real life.
~By Anne Tyler ~
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
~By Madeleine L'Engle ~
The best path through life is the highway.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
~By Booker T. Washington ~
Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death.
~By Whittaker Chambers ~
I position everything else in my life around making movies.
~By Richard King ~
The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced.
~By Patrick Stewart ~
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.
~By Anais Nin ~
My life isn't necessarily more important than anyone else's: I'm just better in talking about it.
~By Adam Duritz ~
Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.
~By Bryan Adams ~
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 ~
I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
~By Robert Anton Wilson ~
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
~By George Washington ~
Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
~By Orlando Bloom ~
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.
~By David Zucker ~
Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.
~By Emanuel Celler ~
I've never really taken anything very seriously. I enjoy life because I enjoy making other people enjoy it.
~By Tim Conway ~
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
~By Margaret Fuller ~
God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.
~By Lenny Kravitz ~
Success, for me, is being able to provide information that will help to change someone's life positively.
~By Darren L. Johnson ~
Normal life cannot sustain revolutionary attitudes for long.
~By Milovan Djilas ~
The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.
~By Julie Christie ~
I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
~By Anatole France ~
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
~By Robert Byrne ~
You can't model for the rest of your life, so it is important to diversify your career.
~By Tyra Banks ~
Previously the same Polish audiences would have been pressured into seeing cinema made for adults, films made by us about those spheres of life that were significant for us and which should be significant for our society.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~
I hope they're going to learn, and as a result of our response, that it isn't going to work. They're not going to change our life, they're not going to have us throw out our Constitution, and they're not going to chase us out of the Middle East.
~By Paul Bremer ~
A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.
~By Thomas Mann ~
My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I'd go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I'm now resigned to the fact that this won't happen.
~By Michael Strahan ~
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
~By William James ~
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
~By Steven Weinberg ~
School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
~By Ivan Illich ~
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
~By Sam Levenson ~
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
~By Booker T. Washington ~
Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
~By Morrie Schwartz ~
When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don't have it, then I don't have it, but at least I'm going to put myself out there. If I fail, I'm going to fail terrifically.
~By Ali Larter ~
A lot of people don't think they can count on me, but I've never missed a gig in my life.
~By Johnny Thunders ~
I'm just kind of taking whatever life gives me and hoping that I make the right decision.
~By Amy Smart ~
Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
~By Gunther Grass ~
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
I have been insane on the subject of moneymaking all my life.
~By Cornelius Vanderbilt ~
Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government.
~By Arthur Hoppe ~
As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.
~By Robert Caro ~
Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a man. The idea of difference is a human conception for man's own advantage.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.
~By Morris Raphael Cohen ~
Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.
~By George Harrison ~
The roughest part of that lifestyle is the travel and early mornings.
~By Josie Maran ~
Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.
~By Joseph Addison ~
There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat.
~By Anna Quindlen ~
I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
~By J. R. R. Tolkien ~
The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
~By Louis-Ferdinand Celine ~
Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.
~By Hugh Miller ~
When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
~By Joyce Carol Oates ~
I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation goes I purposely avoid a high degree of difficulty.
~By Barbara Kruger ~
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
~By Leon Trotsky ~
It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.
~By Agnetha Faltskog ~
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money.
~By Sophocles ~
I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.
~By M. F. K. Fisher ~
You have so much to share, you have so much to tell, you have so much you want to expose, so much that's inside that you've learned from that life period. There are really very few people I can share that with.
~By Priscilla Presley ~
In a lot of areas of my life, particularly in my teenage years, I began to think about the world, and to think about the universe as being a part of my conscious everyday life.
~By Julius Erving ~
Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
Life is about timing.
~By Carl Lewis ~
I have amazing people around me. I couldn't be in a better place. I'm grateful for my life and where I'm at. I never thought I could be in the position that I'm in.
~By Ashlee Simpson ~
Death does determine life.
~By Pier P. Pasolini ~
Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves.
~By Jonathan Miller ~
One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.
~By Joseph Campbell ~
When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please.
~By Tom T. Hall ~
The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
~By Abraham Cahan ~
My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
~By Barack Obama ~
We've got to practice three weeks, get the kinks out, then we've got to practice three weeks with the crew, and then go out for four months. It's just a huge chunk of time out of life.
~By Bob Seger ~
I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning.
~By Jonathan Coe ~
Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
The moment seemed right to me for a full and, if possible, authoritative portrait of the life and character of the Prince of Wales.
~By Jonathan Dimbleby ~
I thank Heaven every summer's day of my life, that my lot was humbly cast within the hearing of romping brooks, and beneath the shadow of oaks.
~By Donald G. Mitchell ~
The metropolis reveals itself as one of those great historical formations in which opposing streams which enclose life unfold, as well as join one another with equal right.
~By Georg Simmel ~
The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
~By Candace Bushnell ~
One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
~By Bo Bennett ~
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
~By Anna Letitia Barbauld ~
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future.
~By William Wordsworth ~
I think space exploration is very important. I think there is very intelligent life on Mars. I believe that Martians are spying on us from the bottom of the ocean.
~By Annabella Sciorra ~
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