Life Quotes

On becoming more acquainted with the word of the Bible, I began to understand so much more of what I had been taught, and of what I had learned about life and about the people in mine.

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?

I've dodged bullets but there's no scandal in my life.

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

I appreciate all of the attention I get in my career. I am a loner and live a rather secluded life so sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but I am always very appreciative of everything, and honored.

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

I myself have already spent a third of my life in Germany, first in Cologne and then, since 1994, in Berlin.

For me, my life is a journey.

I am planning my one woman show. It will be a showcase of my life. It starts at the beginning and ends where I am today. It will have every single inch of my life - as much as you can get into an hour. I will be touring everywhere.

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's need to think.

The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.

These sorts of things can happen, identities can be switched, the emotional implications are something that he has not been trained to feel. His whole life has been about separating himself from these sorts of actions.

Cleveland is the place I grew up and lived much of my adult life, so it will always be a part of my soul.

I want to be a champion for the people I have fought for all my life - regular people.

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

Almost everybody embraces life.

My view of the afterlife is that it's made of different levels, depending on how spiritual a life we live.

Life is always at some turning point.

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

Out all of these zillions of letters, one of the first ones that came was, as it turned out from Johnny Carson within the last five or six weeks of his life. I had worked with him. He lost a son who had worked for me.

Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.

We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range.

We need it to capture the energy of contemporary life.

My mother has never been involved in my professional life. I am very close to my mother but we keep it on a mother-daughter basis and not a work-related basis.

I was blessed in the sense that I got handed so much early on in life. I got a lot of the things people go through their 20s and 30s craving.