Life Quotes

• What motivated me to dedicate myself to public service for nearly two-thirds of my life was the chance to produce results for those people who entrusted me to be their voice and their champion.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • People
  • Myself
  • Service

• There is more to life than increasing its speed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Life
  • More
  • Speed

• There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Things
  • Enough
  • Manufacture

• Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.

  

  James M. Barrie
  • True
  • Wish
  • Sacrifice

• A lot of the songs that I wrote during 'Pt. 1' and 'Pt. 2' are the first songs that I ever wrote that sounded like that. I was in this phase - a certain creative space in my life - personally and musically.

  

  Bibi Bourelly
  • Life
  • Space

• Learning how to walk again was a process for me. It was some of the darker days of my life, but I've had many moments of my life where I've had to just kind of put my head down and work, and this was no different.

  

  Jimmy Graham
  • Work
  • Different
  • Learning

• I like to control my own personal life.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Life
  • Control
  • Like

• When you do a lot of acting your entire life, you see the entire set from one point of view. To have a chance to step back and pull it all together is really exciting. You want to do it all; you want to have a hand in everything.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Together
  • Hand
  • Chance

• I watched a lot of old television growing up - a lot of Nick at Nite. I watched 'Rhoda', 'Mary Tyler Moore', and 'I Love Lucy.' Growing up, I loved 'My So Called Life' and was devastated when that went off the air.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Growing
  • Loved
  • Devastated

• I'm constantly learning, and that is the greatest gift of life in my opinion - to always be learning and growing.

  

  Kristin Chenoweth
  • Growing
  • Learning
  • Opinion

• Ole man trouble. Go find you someone else to pick on. I live my life now you see. Ole man trouble, Please stay away from me, now. Oh I look like I'm down in my luck. Please send faith to help pick me up. I've lived this way so many years. Ole man trouble, Please wash away all my fears.

  

  Otis Redding
  • Up
  • Live
  • Help

• I'm very bad at being an actor or guitarist. The sign on my gravestone would be, 'I've been getting away with it all my life.'

  

  Francis Rossi Status Quo
  • Life
  • Actor
  • Guitarist

• I suppose what happened is that I spent my whole life wanting to be cool but eventually came to recognise the mechanism of how coolness works. So it's not really that I don't want to be cool anymore - it's more like I've come to realise that coolness doesn't exist the way I once assumed.

  

  James Murphy
  • Life
  • Cool

• Individuals seem to have reached their walls and so has the entire human race. Whatever isn't working, isn't life-producing, isn't producing love for ourselves or others, is going to have to go now. Or, literally, there will be hell to pay.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Pay
  • Individuals
  • Human Race

• Life, Tavi reflected, seldom makes a gift of what one expects or plans for.

  

  Jim Butcher
  • Life

• The supreme style of love is unknown love. If the affection is known by the beloved, that love is snob. If you sacrifice your life for the beloved, and she recognises your love after you die, your soul would be appraised.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • She
  • Soul
  • Die

• Summer was gone and now Indian summer. The grass was cold and there was no mist and no dew. After he left she would go in and light the gas and close the shatters, and he would go down the path and on to the village. To these two life had come quickly and gone, leaving not bitterness, but pity; not disillusion, but only pain.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • She
  • Light
  • Pain

• All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.

  

  Keira Knightley
  • Life

• Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Positive
  • Tennis
  • Impact

• "Homicide: Life on the Street" is the best material I've had the chance to do.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • Chance
  • Materials
  • Homicide

• The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into comedy and traces back every strand in my life that is relevant to that story. It's kind of an autobiography but isn't, as it stops about 25 years ago. It goes right up to the first time I do stand up.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Up
  • Time
  • Book

• I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Great
  • Death
  • Value

• I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • High
  • New
  • New York

• I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Life
  • Music
  • My Life

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