The Life Quotes

Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.

Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.

And the time will come when you see, we’re all one, and life flows on within you and without you.

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile.

I like the life of ideas and applying ideas to action.

To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.

When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

My life is cluttered with the most wonderful memorabilia. And wonderful creative experiences.

Life is whole only when it isn't subordinate to a specific object that exceeds it. In this way, the essence of entirety is freedom.

A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows.

The painting is like a thread that runs through all the reasons for all the other things that make one's life.

A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations.

When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.

When I wrote 'Before The Dawn,' I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can't talk about simply because I'd put them at risk.

I made my last motion picture in March 1965 for Magna Pictures. 'Harlow,' based on the life of actress Jean Harlow... I didn't know at the time that 'Harlow' would be my last motion picture.

This is our world and we need the same things to survive. If I'm making my life better and the circumstances of your life worse, that's terrible because in the end it will affect me, too.

Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.

So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.

He ran over a few people, nothing major. Mess runs over people. Sometimes, people don't get up. That's life.

One of these days I will be an old man in a rocking chair on a porch. Wouldn't it be nice to have my whole life there to read and kind of re-live it.

It is to the Riddle of the Sphinx that I have devoted fifty years of professional life as an anthropologist.

Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they’re big, flashing signs that something needs to change.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

In real life, what scares me is politicians, corporations and people that think they know what the world should be.

Letting go, at its heart, is an act of agreement with Life.

What, what am I to do with all of this life?

There is no field other than the weird in which I have any aptitude or inclination for fictional composition. Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.

Death ends a life. But it doesn't end a relationship.

A cricket tour in Australia would be a most delightful period in one's life if one was deaf

A second-class mind dealing with third-class material is hardly a necessity of life.

After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong.

One's life has many compartments.

The war of my life had begun; and though one of God's most powerless creatures, I resolved never to be conquered.

The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.

It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't.

By love, harmony and beauty you must turn the whole of life into a single vision of divine glory.

Your success and happiness lie in you. External conditions are the accidents of life, its outer trappings.

Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he who gets the most out of life.

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

There is no normality in life. Having two houses means that we can get out of each other's hair - which, let's face it, we've both got a lot of.

I remembered her once saying that life was like your shoes. You couldn't simply expect or imagine that your shoes would fit perfectly. Shoes that pinched your feet were a fact of life.

Yes, there is a Divinity, one from which we must never turn aside for the guidance of our huge inward life and of the share we have as well in the life of all men. It is called the truth.

Happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. ...We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him.

Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.

To be a philosopher... is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.