This Life Quotes
I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.
Thank god Shonda Rhimes had this agenda to make television look like life, to make it look like the real world.
I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.
My reasons to live Were my reasons to die But at least they were mine Now I've freedom unbound Cut the laces of life
Writing is a strong easement for perplexity. My life is a map, spread out with all the rivers and hills showing.
I took one Draught of Life - I'll tell you what I paid - Precisely an existence - The market price, they said.
Life is passing you by as you speak, you're on a path and you're all on the same path toward death.
I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death. When I leave, I want to leave to my offspring a clear idea about identity.
You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.
No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.
Even when your dream that you set out comes true, it's not always perfect, and there isn't always the kiss at the end, and we all get to live happily ever after. That's not the reality of life.
It's difficult on my dating life, because anyone I get photographed with is automatically my boyfriend. So it just makes it look as if I've had, like, 6,000 boyfriends!
I hope my head doesn't get very big. I'm just going to keep my feet on the ground, stick to friends and family and try to lead a normal life.
The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It's important to me to feel like I have my own life.
A smile costs nothing in money, time, or effort but it is literally true that it can be of supreme importance in ones life.
You should get married. When I was younger, I was into the fame and fortune, and now I realize that a loving wife and happy children - that's life's greatest consolation prize.
The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.
You can adapt to certain situations and to a certain way of life, but it has to be difficult to fully let go of something.
Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General.
If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened.
The flourishing life cannot be achieved until we moderate our desires and see how superficial and fleeting they are.
Survey and test a prospective action before undertaking it. Before you proceed, step back and look at the big picture, lest you act rashly on raw impulse.
Raising children is an enormously important part of life. I think one of the most important, or the most important, period.
OK, I've had a life of sort of success, some people know who I am but a lot of people don't. I feel the need to change that still.
Sometimes in life one experiences an emotion which is so strong that it is difficult to think, or to reason.
The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation.
To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.
Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.
Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.
I have a love/hate relationship with just about all technology in my life. My first typewriter in particular. I had a helluva time putting new ribbon on it.
Both desire and imagination are stored in the mind of the individual and when stretched, both have the potential to position a person for greatness.
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.
It's important to know what you're going to spend your life on, and the only way you're going to find that is by connecting with the force inside yourself.
All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean - then fall in. But we also write the life raft.
Pregnancy seemed like a tremendous abdication of control. Something growing inside you which would eventually usurp your life.
Quiet heroism or youthful idealism, or both? What do we know? That life without heroism and idealism is not worth living - or that either can be fatal?
I try to stay in shape just to handle things like the stress of a job or everyday life.