The Life Quotes

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

Fighting for identity is something that is very much in my life.

I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life.

If I had to name a driving force in my life, I would name PASSION every time

A new time is coming both for my personal life, and the brand Ann Demeulemeester. I feel it's time to separate our paths.

The things we overcome in life really become our strengths.

Life and hope must cease together.

Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

If you asked me, parents were supposed to affect the life of their child in such a way that the child grows up to be responsible, able to participate in life and in community.

I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.

That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness.

I worked in between carpools and buying food and cooking and whatever else I had to do. I lived an outside life, but really I was living an inside life.

It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

Fault is a beautiful, honorable love story that I hope I'll get to experience in my own lifetime. It makes you grateful for any love you have in your life.

One of life's terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they're doing.

But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.

Nothing is lost, nothing is created all is transformed. Nothing is the prey of death. All is the prey of life.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

Whatever happens in my life from now on, I know the day I finally die - the final act of my script - people will always make references to the work I’ve done with Almodóvar.

I think a Play the best divertisement that wise men have: but I do also think them nothing so who do discourse so formallie about the rules of it, as if 'twere the grand affair of humane life.

Being fearless doesn't mean living a life devoid of fear, but living a life in which our fears don't hold us back

If you think back over your experiences, the chances are that you will find the finest moments in your life were those when you completely forgot yourself.

I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.

A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.

It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

I practice in my head.

As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I've spent my whole life fighting tradition. There's no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife.

Stay true to what makes you happy, because that always ends up producing the best result.

I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.

All I want is to mess around, and I don't really care about, if you love me, if you hate me, you can't save me, baby baby, all my life I've been good

Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it.

I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life.

Only through women’s full and equal participation in all areas of public and private life can we hope to achieve the sustainable, peaceful and just society promised in the United Nations Charter.

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.

a woman may be called a wife and mother for most of her life, while a man is called a husband and father only at his funeral.

Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

My thoughts went round and round and it occurred to me that if I ever wrote a novel it would be of the 'stream of consciousness' type and deal with an hour in the life of a woman at the sink.

Sometimes life isn't about who you were or are, but it's about who you are becoming.

My life is in shambles. It is crazy. It couldn't get any crazier. I'm just trying to stay sane.

Love or hatred towards a thing, which we conceive to be free, must, other things being similar, be greater than if it were felt towards a thing acting by necessity.

Why is life so difficult? Why can't we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?

There's a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward to.

I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.

I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.