This Life Quotes
There is nothing I have to reflect on that gives me more satisfaction than the fact that my life is insured for the benefit of my Dear Wife and children.
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
The deepest joys and blessings in life are associated with family, parenthood, and sacrifice.
Besides the physical ordinance of baptism and the laying on of hands, one must be spiritually born again to gain exaltation and eternal life.
This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.
A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life.
I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
In order to succeed, you can't be afraid to fail. Just do it and don't let anybody tell you you can't.
Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.
Place, time, life, death, earth, heaven are divisions and distinctions we make, like the imaginary lines we trace upon the surface of the globe.
You have to judge everybody on balance, all the positives and all the negatives. In the life of my husband, I think the positives outweigh the negatives.
Running has made my life worthwhile. I used to be more dead than alive after the personal tragedy in my life.
Widows tend either to fade away when husbands die, committing emotional suttee, or else find that a new life burgeons. Here in Christchurch, a lot of burgeoning goes on.
I want people to judge me on what we have achieved after five years. I will go back to my home in Bermuda, play some golf and live a healthier life.
I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.
Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living.
Behind the screen of the ballot, the real holders of power ... are the great industrial and monetary monopolies who own our national economic life.
Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a loser in life.
I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.
I suspect there are people in all walks of life who need to be dragged into the 21st century in terms of attitudes towards women.
Labor is life! 'Tis the still water faileth; Idleness ever despaireth, bewaileth; Keep the watch wound, for the dark rust assaileth.
I draw from life - but I always pulp my acquaintance before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage.
Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.
Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.
It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
And what's a life? - a weary pilgrimage, Whose glory in one day doth fill the stage With childhood, manhood, and decrepit age.
... you are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!
When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side.
When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you.