Life Quotes
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I worry about making work more important than what I know to be the truth. Throughout all areas of life, we're told how to look, how to act, what to speak, what to wear, what we should have and other people don't have, and we know none of that means anything. Yet these other messages never stop coming.
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Can you every single day tell a true testimony of who you are? That's really what life is about.
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People are looking for a way in which their spiritual life can be deepened. They are finding it in some of our Catholic parishes and sometimes not in others, and that opens the door for them to go elsewhere.
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He bade me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters.
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Here in L.A., you kind of get stuck in your own little dilemmas and your own little life, and hearing a story like Pocahontas' reminds you there's a bigger world out there, and there are so many more important things in life.
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To make a love story, you need a couple of young people, but to reflect on the nature of love, you're better off with old ones. That is a fact of life and literature - and of the novel ever since it fell in love with love in the 18th century.
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What am I doing in this silly showbiz life? I do wonder that sometimes.
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I am still very independent in my real life, and that's why I'm always trying to get out of relationships prematurely.
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I've always had this female-empowerment thing in the back of my mind - because I wanted my mother to be stronger, and she couldn't be. I thought, 'If I'm successful, I can change her life.'
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What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity.
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Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.
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In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.
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Where I grew up, in New Jersey, there was a lot of organised crime activity. It was a part of life.
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Obviously I've spent most of my working life with men and they have this way of operating which seems a bit alien to me.
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I imagine the life of an atheistic praying mantis to be rather torturous.
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When I look back on my life, I wonder how I survived - my mother said I had a guardian angel.
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You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.
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Life is not fair...Anyone who says it is, or even that it ought to be, is a fool or worse.
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Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.
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… when we place our hope in worldly vanities, in money, in success. Then the Word of God says to us: 'Why do you seek the living among the dead?'. Why are you searching there? That thing cannot give you life! Yes, perhaps it will cheer you up for a moment, for a day, for a week, for a month … and then?
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I'm very happy with my life and career, but I do find myself having serious attacks of nostalgia, and I don't quite know why. Even though I've got to travel the world and do amazing things, I still want to go back to my teenage years and change little aspects of it. It's strange, but it does continue to bug me.
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I'm very quiet and shy in my personal life, as hard as that is to believe.
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To kidnap and kill anyone is inexcusable. But it is repugnant to commit such a crime against a woman who has spent most of her life working for the good of the people of Iraq,
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One of the things I find exciting about Joan of Arc is how clearly the story of her life reveals the creation of myth, a process in which every one of us is involved - every one of us who tells stories and all those who listen, each informing the other.
