On Life Quotes

I watched the way you watch when you know you want to remember.

Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.

But then, you know, I'm very happy, I've got to this stage in my life and I'm not dead. I haven't got married and divorced and done all that palimony business, you know all that mess.

I can say, "I don't have anything I regret!" But I can also say, "I can go forward in my life the way it is and I don't think I'll accrue any future regrets."

God has always been in my heart and a part of my life and my familys lives. It is through Him that we draw our strength.

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.

Be optimistic about everything in life.

I'd like to be settled into somewhat of a normal life. Somewhat. I know it's never going to be completely normal.

I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.

Those who control the wealth of this society have an influence over political life far in excess of their number.

To think big is to love the universe, to embrace our passion. To love is to fight for what we love. What a waste not to, when we have only this one life to live.

I don't know what else to tell you. I often think how different my life would have been - how much happier - if you'd been a part of it. One day.

I like to share my life, and spend time with someone I love. That has worked 100 per cent with my wife.

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

If you don't take chances, you can't do anything in life.

The big turn in the late 90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. I was fairly sure I was going to be an actor for the rest of my life, which I think calmed me down.

I don't break the law* made for crooks, when I take away my own property - thus I am not obliged to conform to the law made for murderers when I deprive myself of my own life.

All the fame you should look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.

The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.

The struggle for life is not only the material and economic one. Comfort is no protection from anxiety.

When you get older, everybody sort of changes and moves away. I think that stands the test of time, when you have a friendship from youth that's still in your life today.

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.

Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.

In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.

Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.

Whatever life takes away from you, let it go. When you surrender and let go of the past, you allow yourself to be fully alive in the moment.

You are what you believe you are.

Doing your best is taking the action because you love it, not because you're expecting a reward

Until death it is all life.

Among the attributes of God, although they are equal, mercy shines with even more brilliance than justice.

RoboCop was maybe the best summer of my entire life.

One of the surest ways to enrich life is to make experiences less fleeting.

I'm inspired by watching and listening to people. For example, my first novel, The Scale, came to life after I overheard two women discussing their struggle with their weight at the gym.

Broken marriages, conflicts of loyalty, the problems of everyday life fall away as one faces up to [Jeff] Thomson.

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

Blaming your faults on your nature does not change the nature of your faults. After growing up on a dairy farm, everything in life seemed easy

There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

I am working hard to provide solutions to meet a most pressing goal: preserving our way of life for our kids and grandkids.

The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.

Out of life's storm I carried only a few ideas - and not one feeling.

Only the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of this never-to-return. (p.148)

Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.

I love the training, learning the stunts, doing them. I love feeling that power - doing things you could never actually do in life - like flying and doing backflips in the air!

Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we're going to eat is hotly debated.