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Life Quotes


"Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life."


"However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks."


"Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area."


"Fashion doesn't make you perfect, but it makes you pretty."


"Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this."


"Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?"



"We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations."


"Most people die at 25 and aren't buried until they're 75."


"Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous."


"No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power."


"I think, well, I've had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn't fair. Everyone I've ever loved is dead, and my leg hurts all the bloody time... But I think, any God that can do sunsets like that, a different one every night... 'Strewth, well, you've got to respect the old bastard, haven't you?"


"Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity."


"One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge."


"Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love."


"I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can."


"The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom."


"At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety."



"There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain."


"I went to Ithaca, found the Grateful Dead and my life was changed."


"While American taxes pay for much of the research and development that goes into creating the new, life-saving drugs, American consumers continue to subsidize the cost of the drugs for consumers across the world."


"The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result."


"My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others."
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