Life Quotes
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Looking back at it now, any objective account of my life is bound to read like a cross between 'The Wife of Bath's Tale' and a travel brochure.
Anne Stevenson
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If life gives you limes, make margaritas.
Jimmy Buffett
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It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also.
Clancy Brown
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A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.
William Cowper
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Becoming a mother has been the best thing ever for me. It's become my life's work. Not just parenting, but sharing information and encouraging other women to be receptive to the basic nature of motherhood.
Anna Getty
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The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
Edward Fitzgerald
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Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven;' and again, 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it; ' no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ, or death for Christ.
Saint Augustine
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All my life I had a rapport with black caddies.
Lee Trevino
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When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.
Peter Thiel
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I arrived in Bangkok in 1980: I was 23 years old, and it changed my life.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
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Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.
James Lecesne
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Some of the things I've done in my life, I've done to make money because I had to make money... and some things I did just because they were on my mind and they were of interest to me... some of the little plays I wrote.
James Lapine
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Albert Brooks. Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Larry David. The best comedic actors play broad and real simultaneously, coming across as both larger than life and all too human.
Nell Scovell
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I feel like my life is something purposeful. Many people have told me that after they listen to my talk, some point which I made, they got certain ideas and their whole life is changed. They are happier.
Dalai Lama
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I have never worked for fame or praise, and shall not feel their loss as I otherwise would. I have never for a moment lost sight of the humble life I was born to, its small environments, and the consequently little right I had to expect much of myself, and shall have the less to censure, or upbraid myself with for the failures I must see myself make.
Clara Barton
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The life of a citizen is the property of his country.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I, Master John Hus, in chains and in prison, now standing on the shore of this present life and expecting on the morrow a dreadful death, which will, I hope, purge away my sins, find no heresy in myself, and accept with all my heart any truth whatsoever that is worthy of belief.
Jan Hus
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I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life.
Lee Radziwill
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The best things in life cannot be willed into being.
Anthony de Mello
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If you want to know what life is like in the Soviet Union, go to your local department of motor vehicles.
Billy Joel
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Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
Sara Teasdale
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Let today be the day you give up who you've been for who you can become.
Hal Elrod
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One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).
Soren Kierkegaard