Life Quotes

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

And people are intrigued if I really am as grumpy in real life. People feel a bit let down if I'm laughing or smiling.

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarged and enhanced the quality and length of human life, we must not lose sight as to what we are trying to accomplish.

Scientific advancement should aim to affirm and to improve human life.

The band was rejuvenated by that wonderful day. It breathed new life into us.

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.

Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.

The joys of my life are my granddaughters. They are beautiful. You don't have to believe me. You can ask my wife. She'll tell you.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a real challenge.

My current mantra is that sometimes we need teachers in our lives. I never had that in my life, parents and stuff like that; I tried to stay on the outside of them or anybody that had that kind of influence.

I know that plans and reality may be two different things, but I think my demands on life are minimal.

It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.

Certainly we disagree with the Communist Party, as we disagree with other political parties who are trying to maintain the American way of life.

Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.

If man limits himself to a satisfied animal existence, and asks from life only what such an existence can give, the higher values of life at once disappear.

Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

The essence of life is statistical improbability on a colossal scale.

If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.

My life is quite physical anyway. When you are three-foot-six you kind of have to climb stuff now and again, and you find yourself in quite precarious situations just to manage in what is quite a big world.

In life, you know, they do this in focus groups; if you were in such and such circumstance, what would you do? Well, you never know what you're going do unless you're faced with it.

TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.

Some people, when they die, leave so much life behind that we wonder how they did it.