Quotes about: life

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
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
– James M. Barrie
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
Life is a long lesson in humility.
– 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
Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it.
– 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 never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.
– 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
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
– Simone de Beauvoir
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
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
– Saul Bellow
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
– Saul Bellow
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
– Walter Benjamin
We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.
– Walter Benjamin
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.
– Tony Benn
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
– Arnold Bennett
Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
– Alan Bennett
Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.
– Bo Bennett
Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.
– Bo Bennett
If you are going to ask yourself life-changing questions, be sure to do something with the answers.
– Bo Bennett
If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?
– Bo Bennett
One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.
– Bo Bennett
People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life.
– Bo Bennett
The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want.
– Bo Bennett
Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes.
– Bo Bennett
Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.
– Robert Bennett
I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.
– Tony Bennett
I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.
– George Benson
My whole career from the early 70s on has been mind-blowing. I didn't imagine in my life that I would ever be considered a guitar player first of all because I started off as a singer.
– George Benson
After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.
– Edgar Bergen
Charlie, what is nature of life?
– Edgar Bergen
Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream.
– John Berger
That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.
– John Berger
Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
– Irving Berlin
Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.
– William Bernbach
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to make sure that one note follows another... and leaves us with the feeling that something is right in the world.
– Leonard Bernstein
Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid adventure in which you are setting out into an unknown country, to face many a danger, to meet many a joy, to find many a comrade, to win and lose many a battle.
– Annie Besant
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.
– Ambrose Bierce
The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.
– Ambrose Bierce
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
– Josh Billings
Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
– Josh Billings
The man whose only pleasure in life is making money, weighs less on the moral scale than an angleworm.
– Josh Billings
There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: Twins.
– Josh Billings
There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.
– Rudolf Bing
The morning after a death, we learned an avalanche of goodies about the renowned, some of which persuaded the reader that he should have cultivated the deceased in life.
– Jim Bishop
It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose, aiming at something outside self.
– Hugo Black
I was doing bad movies as a day job. And it almost ruined my life for a while. But I have done 130-odd films, and only fourteen have been spooky ones. I'm not spooky! I want life!
– Karen Black
The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.
– Harry A. Blackmun
You only require two things in life: your sanity and your wife.
– Tony Blair
Anxiety is the poison of humans life. It is the parent of many sins, and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, where you may be disappointed, and be blessed in dis-appointment, what means this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can your solicitude alter the cause or unravel the intricacy of human events?
– Robert Blair
Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.
– Robert Blair
Art is the tree of life. Science is the tree of death.
– William Blake
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
– William Blake
He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.
– William Blake
If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.
– Cate Blanchett
We have two kinds of employment: one with decent pay and benefits - and another of part-time pay with full-time hours, at a wage that can't nearly support a healthy family. We have two kinds of healthcare: one where people have access and insurance - and another where basic care and life-saving treatments, come at a price beyond reach.
– Kathleen Blanco
Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds and thoughts.
– Allan Bloom
The European arguments against the Iran-Libya Sanctions Act demonstrate that some Europeans have never lost faith in appeasement as a way of life. It is clear that Iran is cynically manipulating gullible (or equally cynical) Europeans to advance its development of weapons of mass destruction.
– John Bolton
I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.
– Erma Bombeck
I've decided life is too fragile to finish a book I dislike just because it cost $16.95 and everyone else loved it. Or eat a fried egg with a broken yolk (which I hate) when the dog would leap over the St. Louis Arch for it.
– Erma Bombeck