On Life Quotes

You are the butter to my bread,and the breath to my life

Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.

The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

Wine is one of the agreeable and essential ingredients of life

Those things of real worth in life are worth going to any length in love and respect to safeguard.

Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.

People often put me in a V-neck tennis club sweater, driving a Bentley, but my life wasn't like that.

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly; in man, the soul.

I could dispense with life sooner than with your love.

Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.

My life in the past 20 years has changed. I don't count days anymore, I count the hours, the minutes, the seconds.

When you are following me on Twitter, you are literally following my life. I think that's pretty cool.

Sometimes I have a beard, sometimes I don't, and I'm not very good at maintaining it. I've got an agreement with my life coach and guru that I don't touch it from now on.

Get a grip, get a life, and get over it.

Give me a Sunday morning, that's full of grace, A simple life and I'll be okay, here in small town U.S.A.

If you know how to use a pencil to draw, you could draw anything. Now apply that to everything in life.

When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long. [Lat., Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est.]

There needn't be a distinction between your life and your music.

Basic fact of life: no matter how far you run, you always take yourself with you.

Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.

Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.

I've never done anything for money. My first love is things of limited commercial appeal. I could be happy doing Shakespeare for the rest of my life.

As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist -- Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.

I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

The myth is a surviving fragment of the psychic life of the infancy of the race whilst the dream is the myth of the individual.

We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history.

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

The best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning.

I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.

In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time.

Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.

All of a sudden I was living what is perceived to be the model life. It was just full-on, 24 hours a day. It was work all the time. And there's always a party to go to.

I want to enjoy life and I can't if I'm not eating and miserable...

Some of the craziest people Ive met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people Ive met.

Two of an actress's greatest assets are love and pain. A great actress, even a good actress, must have plenty of both in her life.

The life in which nothing happens goes the fastest, because it has no landmarks.

One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.

I am in the world to change the world.

Be brave with your life, so others will be brave with theirs.

There are a lot of good arguments for birth control, but as far as terminating a life that has already come into existence, I haven't found any.

Bones tell me the story of a person's life - how old they were, what their gender was, their ancestral background.

There is something really nice about learning that you can take the reins of your life and your career.

... the estranged self, hidden with its inexhaustible potential, lies undiscovered by many people who die without even knowing that it exists.

Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.

Your ideas come out of the way you conduct your life.

As a teenage girl myself, I've gone through times in my life where I've felt insecure about who I am and have tried so hard to fit in with everyone else.

This is my life; these are my fingerprints; I'm unique; this is what I want to do. You worry about your own front porch and what's happening in your own world.

Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.