Quotes about: life

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
– Mikhail A. Bakunin
If everyone really knew what a jerk I am in real life, I wouldn't be so adored in the slightest.
– Christian Bale
The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
– Anna Letitia Barbauld
When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do.
– Adrienne Barbeau
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.
– William Barclay
The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.
– William Barclay
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
– William Barclay
We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
– William Barclay
When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.
– William Barclay
When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.
– William Barclay
Lastly, though I affirm that after a man hath arrived to such a condition in which a man may not sin, he yet may sin; I will nevertheless not deny but there may be a state attainable in this life, in which to do righteousness may become so natural to the regenerate soul, that in the stability of this condition they can not sin.
– Robert Barclay
I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.
– Clive Barker
I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.
– Christiaan N. Barnard
The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.
– Christiaan N. Barnard
The mother is not dying exactly, but has reached a point in life where death is a familiar on the staircase.
– Clive Barnes
Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.
– Julian Barnes
The writer's life is full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.
– Julian Barnes
Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
– P. T. Barnum
Old age is the verdict of life.
– Amelia E. Barr
Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.
– Amelia E. Barr
Expecting life to treat you well because you are a good person is like expecting an angry bull not to charge because you are a vegetarian.
– Shari R. Barr
The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.
– Chuck Barris
Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
– Karl Barth
There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within himself. He has to put in something in order to be able to take something out.
– Mikhail Baryshnikov
I ask you to stand by my side in the next five years. We shall live a good life in a Romania of all Romanians.
– Traian Basescu
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.
– Frederic Bastiat
O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife, who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life!
– Katharine Lee Bates
O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.
– Lewis J. Bates
Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
– Mary Catherine Bateson
A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see.
– Phyllis Battelle
It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.
– Anne Baxter
See into life, don't just look at it.
– Anne Baxter
As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth.
– Stephen Bayley
Obedience, judgment, witness... these are the signposts to our salvation, in all the perplexities and busyness of our life.
– Stephen Bayne
I just decided that I would not put my professional life on hold to raise children. I know that sounds selfish to a lot of people and I don't know if what I'm doing is the right thing. But that's the way I'm doing it.
– Emmanuelle Beart
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
– Melody Beattie
Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls.
– Melody Beattie
A month of days, a year of months, 20 years of months in the treadmill, is the life that slays everything worthy of the name of life.
– Roy Bedicheck
To find fulfillment...don't exist with life - embrace it.
– Jim Beggs
This huge life-changing moment of going from zero to ninety in two seconds!
– Catherine Bell
For, to appreciate a work of art we need bring with us nothing from life, no knowledge of its ideas and affairs, no familiarity with its emotions. Art transports us from the world of man's activity to a world of aesthetic exaltation. For a moment we are shut off from human interests; our anticipations and memories are arrested; we are lifted above the stream of life.
– Clive Bell
The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, that she, whom all my life I'd loved, should be another's wife.
– Henry Glassford Bell
Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
– Guy Bellamy
To be a gourmet you must start early, as you must begin riding early to be a good horseman. You must live in France, your father must have been a gourmet. Nothing in life must interest you but your stomach.
– Ludwig Bemelmans
The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.
– Ruth Benedict
It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence and the manipulation of human life. Islam has also had moments of great splendor and decadence in its history.
– Pope Benedict XVI
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
– Stephen Vincent Benet
Life is a crisis - so what!
– Malcolm Bradbury
Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.
– Charles Bradlaugh
As far as I know, you only get one shot at this life. It only goes round once and time is precious. When I'm not working, you'd better spend that time with someone important.
– Benjamin Bratt
I'm on a real roll. Since I left Law and Order, I've made six films. The whole reason I left Law and Order was I wanted to have a life. That show is a huge commitment.
– Benjamin Bratt
The whole thing about acting, the draw for me, is the opportunity to do things you don't get to do in real life.
– Benjamin Bratt
When you're working opposite Halle Berry, you're going to get a lot. So you have to give a lot. That said, what I've found striking in the past few days is that people are aware of a good chemistry that exists between us on screen. If that's so, it's due to the fact that she and I have a real liking for each other in real life and a real mutual respect.
– Benjamin Bratt
Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
– Fernand Braudel
Let's choose today to quench our thirst for the good life we thinks others lead by acknowledging the good that already exists in our lives. We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.
– Sarah Ban Breathnach
The only moral lesson which is suited for a child, the most important lesson for every time of life, is this: 'Never hurt anybody.'
– Denis Breeze
Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies... that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.
– T. Casey Brennan
I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.
– George Brett
A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.
– Benjamin H. Brewster
There will always be a place for us somewhere, somehow, as long as we see to it that working people fight for everything they have, everything they hope to get, for dignity, equality, democracy, to oppose war and to bring to the world a better life.
– Harry Bridges
All that a pacifist can undertake - but it is a very great deal - is to refuse to kill, injure or otherwise cause suffering to another human creature, and untiringly to order his life by the rule of love though others may be captured by hate.
– Vera Brittain
Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.
– Avery Brooks
Being taken for granted can be a compliment. It means that you've become a comfortable, trusted element in another person's life.
– Dr. Joyce Brothers
Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
– Heywood Broun
The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
– Heywood Broun
When it comes time to do your own life, you either perpetuate your childhood or you stand on it and finally kick it out from under.
– Rosellen Brown
Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
– Harry Browne
The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
– Avery Brundage
There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.
– Charles Buck
Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
– Sitting Bull
Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.
– Julie Burchill
I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.
– Ken Burns
In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.
– James MacGregor Burns
I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
– Edgar Rice Burroghs
Control your life through insanity.
– Cliff Burton
A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.
– Vannevar Bush
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
– Edward B. Butler
But to us, probability is the very guide of life.
– Joseph Butler
That which is the foundation of all our hopes and of all our fears; all our hopes and fears which are of any consideration: I mean a Future Life.
– Joseph Butler
Don't go through life, grow through life.
– Eric Butterworth
In life, as in chess, forethought wins.
– Charles Buxton
Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.
– Robert Byrne
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
– Robert Byrne
Life's to short for chess.
– Henry James Byron
It is that, but really, it's about how we don't recognise the little things in life, or appreciate the little things in life like belonging. A sense of belonging is a big thing today.
– James Caan
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.
– Eileen Caddy
Gratitude helps you to grow and expands; gratitude brings you and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you.
– Eileen Caddy
Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.
– Eileen Caddy
Live and work but do not forget to play, to have fun in life and really enjoy it.
– Eileen Caddy
It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.
– Julius Caesar
It was just everyday living. With me, it was fighting, more fighting, and more fighting. Life then was simply the way it was: ordinary, not bad, not good, just regular. No stress, no strain. Of course, no one had much of anything, but we didn't know that we were poor.
– James Cagney
Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes.
– Michael Caine
Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
– Taylor Caldwell
The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.
– John C. Calhoun
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
– Maria Callas
Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they're only made of sand. It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.
– Maria Callas
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
– Julia Cameron
Life is a creative endeavor. It is active, not passive. We are the yeast that leavens our lives into rich, fully baked loaves. When we experience our lives as flat and lackluster, it is our consciousness that is at fault. We hold the inner key that turns our lives from thankless to fruitful. That key is Blessing.
– Julia Cameron
Love is the substance of all life. Everything is connected in love, absolutely everything.
– Julia Cameron
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
– Joseph Campbell