About Life Quotes

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It's a battle you can't hope to win - it's a battle that's going to go on forever. It's part of the human condition.

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

Worrying about how you'll be remembered is pointless. Better to try to live your life in such a way that people will respect you while you're still alive.

I try to protect my loved ones, the people I share my life with, because they don't have a public life like me. I want to keep their lives private out of respect for them.

Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.

If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.

I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.

I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.

As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life.

My view of life is colored by humor and looking at the best in any situation.

I consider myself to have a decent sense of humor. What's life without a sense of humor?

Humor is very interesting to me. My films are not comedies, but there's comedy in them from time to time, absurdities, just like in real life.

I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

To me, sadness and humor aren't disrelated and humor is the best tool I've had against the sadness in my life.

I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can't have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor.

I have a very silly sense of humor. I've never laughed harder in my entire life than seeing someone with toilet paper stuck on the bottom of their shoe.

Sense of humor is important in life, not just in clothing. How boring to live a life in beige.

My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

The exposed nature of life in the public square affects leaders' attitudes toward risk - and failure.

The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.

The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.

For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.

I live a very nice life. I have a wonderful time. But it's not lived drawing on a full level. I'm relaxed, cool, and enjoying it.

Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven't talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place.

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

People have called me Superman my whole life. In various sports, that seems to be the common theme. My favorite superhero is actually the Incredible Hulk. He's the only superhero that can't die.

I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I'm a happy guy. It's such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for life. Always, always, always.

Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.

By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives.

My whole life had been designing computers I could never build.

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

I have a really beautiful life right now, so there is no reason to be hostile. I'm a husband, a father and a man who tries to do the right thing in life and in my work.

I don't have the life of a famous person. But I do feel like I've been able to connect with a lot of people.

I have had the opportunity to become acquainted with many wonderful people from many walks of life. I have known rich and poor, famous and modest, wise and otherwise.

As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.

If you're famous, I don't - for the life of me - I don't understand why any famous person would ever be on Twitter.

I would have been very happy just working from job to job, paying my rent one movie at a time. I never wanted to be this famous. I never imagined this life for myself.

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.

I've been very, very lucky in my career, in my life - from day one. When aspiring directors say, 'What's your advice?' first I say, 'Be born the son of a famous director. It's invaluable.'

Celebrity damages private life.

It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.

There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.