Life Quotes

As I suffer in the defence of my Country, I must consider this hour as the most glorious of my life -Remember that I die as becomes a British Officer, while the manner of my death must reflect disgrace on your Commander.
– John Andre
You may go to Carlisle's, and to Almack's too; and I'll give you my head if you find such a host, for coffee, tea, chocolate, butter and toast; how he welcomes at once all the world and his wife, and how civil to folk he ne'er saw in his life.
– Christopher Anstey
I have loved eight women in my life. I remember every woman's face.
– Adam Ant
I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
– Adam Ant
Performing is the most important single action in my life. It is a unique experience of hard work-elation and disappointment. Every move is an experiment in building up a successful repertoire.
– Adam Ant
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
– Lauren Bacall
Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.
– Lauren Bacall
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
– Richard Bach
I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?
– Richard Bach
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
– Richard Bach
The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
– Richard Bach
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
– Gaston Bachelard
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer.
– Gaston Bachelard
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
– Sir Francis Bacon
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
– Sir Francis Bacon
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.
– Sir Francis Bacon
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
– Sir Francis Bacon
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
– Sir Francis Bacon
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
– Sir Francis Bacon
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
– Walter Bagehot
Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a moment.
– Pearl Bailey
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
– Pearl Bailey
Even though the college man raises no more wheat than his neighbor, he will have more satisfaction raising it. He will know why he turns the clod; he will challenge the worm that burrows in the furrow; his eyes will follow the field mouse that scuds under the grass; he will see the wild fowl winging its way across the heaven. All these things will add to the meaning of life and they are his.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
Fact is not to be worshipped. The life which is devoid of imagination is dead; it is tied to the earth. There need be no divorce of fact and fancy; they are only the poles of experience. What is called the scientific method is only imagination set within bounds. Facts are bridged by imagination. They are tied together by the thread of speculation. The very essence of science is to reason from the known to the unknown.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
I have no patience with the doctrine of pure science, that science is science only when it is uncontaminated by application in the arts of life; and I also have no patience with the spirit that considers a piece of work to be legitimate only as it has direct bearing on the arts and affairs of men.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
If today you care only for pinks and roses and other prim garden flows, next year you will also admire the wild convolvulus on the old fence and the winter stalks of the sunflower. There are times and seasons for all plants. One's sympathies are wide, as one's life is full and resourceful.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
It is a marvelous planet on which we ride. It is a great privilege to live thereon, to partake in the journey, and to experience its goodness. We may cooperate rather than rebel. We should try to find the meanings rather than to be satisfied only with the spectacles. My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
We must tell it to the world that the higher education is necessary to the best agriculture. We must tell our friends of our enthusiasm for the generous life of the country. We must say that we believe in our ability to make good use of every lesson which the University has given us. We must say to every man that our first love is steadfast, our hopes are high, and our enthusiasm is great. Our hearts are so full that we must celebrate.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
Life is always walking up to us and saying, Come on in, the living's fine, and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.
– Russell Baker
I think quite often a fate worse than death is life - for lots of people.
– Tom Baker
I've had to hold back certain things for legal reasons, or just out of common decency, but I think autobiography has got to be selected confessions, hasn't it? I could have said jolly things about some of the dreadful people I've spent my life with, but it would have been a cheat.
– Tom Baker
Movies have never been that big in my life, I'm always to busy doing other things to find time to go to the movies.
– Kenny Baker
I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.
– Colin Baker
Now I am very clear about what is important in my life. Once I might have lived to work, now I work to live for my family.
– Colin Baker
The drama is a great revealer of life.
– George P. Baker
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
– James A. Baldwin
One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.
– James A. Baldwin
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.
– James A. Baldwin
I've had a great time. I've had a great career and I've obviously had a very radical conversion in my life. It's very tangible. It's very real. It allowed me and enabled me to become the person that I couldn't on my own. Which is the most powerful part of this whole equation for me. And now I want to do whatever I'm supposed to do to continue to be obedient to that.
– Stephen Baldwin
A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.
– William Baldwin
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.
– Lucille Ball
Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
– Hosea Ballou
If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.
– Honore de Balzac
There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.
– Antonio Banderas
If you look at our theories of social pathology and then at the dismal conditions in which children grow up in our ghettos, you would predict that all of them would be on drugs or psychological basket cases. Yet if you use criteria like gainful employment, forming partnerships and life without crime, you will find that most of those kids make it.
– Albert Bandura
There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.
– Albert Bandura
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
– Pedro Calderon de la Barca
A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
– Brigitte Bardot
There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
– Carl Barks
We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
– Djuna Barnes
We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.
– Djuna Barnes
How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
– Natalie Clifford Barney
Novels are longer than life.
– Natalie Clifford Barney
With renunciation life begins.
– Natalie Clifford Barney
I hate every human being on earth. I feel that everyone is beneath me, and I feel they should all worship me. That's what I told my kids. I think I must have been Adolf Hitler in a past life.
– Roseanne Barr
I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
– James M. Barrie
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
– James M. Barrie
I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
– Fantasia Barrino
I've been wanting to sing for a long time. I've been singing all my life, and I've tried different record companies, but it seemed like - it was such a struggle and so hard to get out there. So, I said, I'm gonna go on American Idol and see how far it takes me.
– Fantasia Barrino
I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.
– Dave Barry
Software: These programs give instruction to the CPU, which processes billions of tiny facts called bytes, and within a fraction of a second it sends you an error message that requires you to call the customer-support hot line and be placed on hold for approximately the life-span of a caribou.
– Dave Barry
The difference between men and women is that, if given the choice between saving the life of an infant or catching a fly ball, a woman will automatically choose to save the infant, without even considering if there's a man on base.
– Dave Barry
To better understand why you need a personal computer, let's take a look at the pathetic mess you call your life.
– Dave Barry
Sooner or later... you are going to be looking at God saying, We're going to be lucky if we get out of here. Your life is going to be in front of you and then you are going to realize that you'd rather be grocery shopping.
– Ed Barry
In life it wasn't what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had they bought the teams, I would have gotten to coach because they wanted me to coach. But the people who have the teams hire their friends.
– Rick Barry
The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
– John Barrymore
I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you.
– Drew Barrymore
I'm not after fame and success and fortune and power. It's mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that's the good stuff in life.
– Drew Barrymore
I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.
– Drew Barrymore
Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
– Drew Barrymore
My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world.
– Drew Barrymore
I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun.
– Roland Barthes
Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.
– Roland Barthes
Christ would be a national advertiser today, I am sure, as He was a great advertiser in His own day. He thought of His life as business.
– Bruce Barton
It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.
– Bruce Barton
The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.
– Bruce Barton
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
– Bernard Baruch
Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.
– Bernard Baruch
All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel... and that's what I've been doing all my life.
– Count Basie
A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
– Georges Bataille
Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.
– Georges Bataille
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
– Georges Bataille
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
– Georges Bataille
I've never believed much in that holding hands kind of love. I've always thought that love is about two different personalities trying to confront life, trying to make sense of their responsibilities, to themselves, to each other, and to the wider society.
– Alan Bates
It was with deep interest that my companion and myself, both now about to see and examine the beauties of a tropical country for the first time, gazed on the land where I, at least, eventually spent eleven of the best years of my life.
– Henry Walter Bates
The whole arrangement of a Formicarium, or ant-colony, and all the varied activity of ant-life, are directed to one main purpose - -the perpetuation and dissemination of the species. Most of the labour which we see performed by the workers has for its end the sustenance and welfare of the young brood, which are helpless grubs.
– Henry Walter Bates
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
– Charles Baudelaire
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
– Charles Baudelaire
Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.
– Jean Baudrillard
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.
– Simone de Beauvoir
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
– Simone de Beauvoir
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
– Simone de Beauvoir
Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.
– Simone de Beauvoir
I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
– Samuel Beckett
Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
– Aphra Behn
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
– Aphra Behn
Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.
– Hilaire Belloc