Life Quotes
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People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they've contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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Now if you are condemned to life on welfare, I'm not so sure that being in a bigger welfare village is that much better than being in a smaller welfare village.
Tony Abbott
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But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip, and moral dilemmas on the level of TV soap operas. What litanies the advertisers of the good life chanted at you! What curious catechisms!
Erica Jong
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I took one Draught of Life -I'll tell you what I paid -Precisely an existence -The market price, they said.
Emily Dickinson
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To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave.
George Sutherland
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Water, thou hast no taste, no color, no odor; canst not be defined, art relished while ever mysterious. Not necessary to life, but rather life itself, thou fillest us with a gratification that exceeds the delight of the senses.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
Andre Malraux
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'Departure' also the title of a famous triptych painting of Max Beckmann, yes departure from the illusion of life toward the essential things that wait behind appearance.. .We must insist that Departure is not bound to a political trend, but is symbolic for all times.
Max Beckmann
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You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.
Emily Bronte
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Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness;
George Eliot
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Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.
Thomas Sowell
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Life is yours, do not let life's problems have other influences on what you believe. See for yourself.
Carlson Gracie
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Even if a fool lived with a wise man all his life, he would still not recognise the truth, like a wooden spoon cannot recognise the flavour of the soup.
Gautama Buddha
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Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress.
Bill Gates
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The only way you're going to save things in life is through love, and that's what we're trying to do .... make people fall in love with Florida.
Clyde Butcher
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I'm kind of spoiled, but the great thing about life is that you never know what's around the corner.
Stockard Channing
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I would not call it a difficult life, really. I just had a lot of challenges at a very young age.
Ger Duany
