Life Quotes
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
Larry Wilcox
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It was a strange life, I suppose, but it was the only one I’ve ever known. What is a normal childhood anyway?
Petula Clark
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I didn't want to say "No" because I didn't want people to think I'm not nice. And that, to me, has been the greatest lesson of my life: to recognize that I am solely responsible for it, and not trying to please other people, and not living my life to please other people, but doing what my heart says all the time.
Oprah Winfrey
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
Mahershala Ali
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My mom played tennis for, like, six hours a day and went to college on a tennis scholarship, because that was the way she could go to school. So they instilled in me the idea that you have to work hard for the things you want in life and never complain.
Dakota Fanning
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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It's one of the hardest things in life - choosing your own name.
Caitlyn Jenner
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To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler
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We live in a fast-paced culture where we're asked to make snap decisions all day long, so I suppose cash-point donations feed into the immediacy of our life experience. So it's a great idea. But I think it needs careful handling.
Tamsin Greig
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You're not a rock n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.
Patti Smith
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Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
Samuel Butler
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The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.
Eugene H. Peterson
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I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.
H. P. Lovecraft
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There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley
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Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
Gary Gygax
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I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life.
J. D. Salinger
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Oscar Wilde
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The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.
Yul Vazquez
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
Samuel L. Jackson
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Whether you are pro-choice or strongly pro-life, as I am, there should be common ground that abortion ceases to be an option when a baby can live outside the mother's womb or experience excruciating pain from a procedure.
Kevin Brady
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
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It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.
Albert Einstein
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I think we have to keep working enormously hard to see that every single Indigenous child - every Australian child - has true equality of opportunity. We've got to work harder at it. I think, you know, the heartland issue for us is the gap; the gap in life expectancy in this country.
Quentin Bryce