This Life Quotes

Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.

I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people talk about celebrity and fame. I don't understand the attraction.

I don't have a lot of regrets in my life.

I'm more financially successful, but it just means the shopping blunders I make are bigger now.

The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin.

Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.

Perhaps I’ve been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes.

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

I have never cared much for people. Most of them are cowards, conformists, muddleheads, moneygrubbers, and they infect each other.

As far as he could see, the world was moving, in an orderly capitalist fashion, toward a logical, perhaps provisional, perhaps permanent, end.

They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure there was a place for her. She would always be able to say, Someone is coming. I am not alone.

Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.

And I reminded myself that it's easy to be grateful for the obvious blessings in life, much harder to be grateful for the tough moments and the lessons they teach.

I guess I have learnt now that life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.

I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.

My business life takes a big chunk of time, but I still put exercise in my schedule. I'm up at 5 A.M. and get up and stretch and go for a run in Runyon Canyon with all five of my dogs.

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

Life without smoking is like the smoke without the roast.

How can you have confidence in a woman who will not risk entrusting her whole life to you, day and night?

Football is my life. There is no question about that.

If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.

One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.

Being black or white isn't an accomplishment. What you do with your life - or what you accomplish with your life - dictates what you should be proud of.

Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.

All the fantasy writers I know have a way of dwelling on their own fears and phobias. A writer spends his life being his own psychiatrist.

Is it not gain to have diminished the faith that it was the duty of the wretched and the miserable to be content with the lot in life which providence had awarded them?

And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.

I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

I should never have made my success in life if I had not bestowed upon the least thing I have ever undertaken the same attention and care that I have bestowed upon the greatest.

Champagne is simply one of the elegant extras of life.

Shall we speak of the inspiration of a poet or a priest, and not of the heart impelled by love and self-devotion to the lowliest work in the lowliest way of life?

The sergeant was describing a military life. It was all drinking, he said, except that there were frequent intervals of eating and love making.

Now, what I want is, Facts. . . . Facts alone are wanted in life.

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.

There is nothing more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face, and among country people it is always a sign of a well-regulated life.

With anything you do in life, there are days where you're worn out and you don't want to do it for a second.

We have been measuring too much in terms of the dollar. What we should do is think in terms of useful materials-things that will be of value to us in our daily life.

Ay, marriage is the life-long miracle, The self-begetting wonder, daily fresh.

Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find.

I much preferred the peaceful life on the road, where I didn't have to ask embarrassing questions and do all the things real reporters have to do.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

I decided that if I could fly for ten years before I was killed in a crash, it would be a worthwhile trade for an ordinary life time.

Is cruelty a moral judgment if it is fundamental to forms of life? Who is man to say that the workings of nature, and therefore of the divine plan of which he himself is part, are cruel?

Humor is proof that everything is going to be all right with God nevertheless.

I want to know about life! I want some real answers..." "Five." "Five?!" "I thought that was a pretty good answer!

Over-reliance on strictly economic justifications has already begun to hurt the quality and range of education at every level of American life.

The longer I live the more I believe that the greatest enemy of a victorious Christian life is passivity.

Thanksgiving is a time of quiet reflection; an annual reminder that God has, again, been ever so faithful. The solid and simple things of life are brought into clear focus.