Life Quotes
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Tragedy massages the human ego even as comedy deflates it. ... Tragedy pits us against large foes and the trip wire is our own character. ... In comedy we fall afoul of one another. Comedy depends on social life, on our behavior in groups. In tragedy you can observe one human against the gods. In comedy it's one human versus other humans and often one man (or woman if I'm writing it) against her own worst impulses.
Rita Mae Brown
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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
R. D. Laing
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
Jackson Pollock
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We must vote for hope, vote for life, vote for a brighter future for all of our loved ones.
Ed Markey
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
Laura Wade
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One does not care for the cage when the bird has flown away from it. and when the bird of life flies away, no one cares for the body left behind.
Ramakrishna
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Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Wayne Dyer
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Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
Carly Fiorina
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The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
Rabindranath Tagore
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The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.
Karen Salmansohn
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I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my own, without parents who would nurture me and guard me through that part of life, at a very young age.
Ted Dekker
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The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.
Oscar Wilde
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The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.
Natalie Martinez
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I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.
Tamron Hall
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Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
Barry Goldwater
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The only real things in life is the unexpected things. Everything else is just an illusion.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
Sachin Tendulkar
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
Patricia Kaas
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I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.
Walter Cronkite
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The law which attempts a man's life capital punishment is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime-for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.
Marquis de Sade
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A person's life persuades better than his word.
Aristotle
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There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
Frederic William Farrar
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Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise.
Ed Greenwood
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My story about becoming an actor is a completely non-romantic one. I became an actor because my parents were actors, and it seemed like a very... I knew I was going to act all my life, but I didn't know that I was going to be a professional actor. I thought I was just going to work as an actor every now and then.
Gael Garcia Bernal