Life Quotes
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So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character.
Edward Zigler
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I was at a New Year's Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, 'I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,' and I actually meant it.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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The adventure of life is to learn.
William Arthur Ward
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The Beatles are the 'on switch' to my life.
Steve Lukather Toto
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Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
William Ellery Channing
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In my private life, I'm not around any drugs or alcohol.
Penn Jillette
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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.
William James
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I think the serious things really are the things that make for happiness – people and things that are compatible, love.... So many people are content just to sit around and talk about them instead of getting out and attaining them. As if life were a joke of some kind.
William Faulkner
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Women and girls have been my passion for my whole life.
Kathy Calvin
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I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.
Cat Power
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My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.
Milla Jovovich
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He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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There's a ton of truth in Flannery O'Connor's notion that "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."
George Singleton
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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Thomas Carlyle
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I constantly deal with being called Shaft, and I vacillate back and forth with people coming up to me about it. But it never ceases to blow me away with the impact that character had on my life and my fans' lives.
Richard Roundtree
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A person can't choose where he's born. But he can choose where he spends his life.
Anthony Capella
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The greatest satisfaction comes not from chasing pleasure and avoiding pain, but from the radical acceptance of life as it is, without fighting and clinging to passing desires.
Noah Levine
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The disposition to continue to learn throughout life is perhaps one of the most important contributions that schools can make to an individual's development.
Elliot W. Eisner
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If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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I can't do a role or character unless I have lived that character. For me, the best teacher is life.
Vittorio Grigolo
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Needless to say, I love the interaction between the sexes; it is a natural part of life and I love women. I just think that when sex is used as a form of blackmail or power, it's a repugnant use of one of God's gifts.
Michael Jackson
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And when Bëor lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But Bëor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times.
Brett Gelman
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Everyone has tests in their life. They come in lots of different forms. I had two or three together, which definitely challenged me as a person and as a sportsman. The big thing is how you react to those situations. You want to come out positively at the other end, and that's what I focused on doing.
Brian O'Driscoll