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Life Quotes



"We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda."



"It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it."


"You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life."



"During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk."



"Not a living thing was to be seen and the cottages that sat huddled close to the ground remained fast shut; the smoke from the chimneys alone still gave a sign of life."


"We cannot but feel uneasy about the losses caused by humanity themselves. Apart from the losses of life and property in destructive wars, the environment and natural resources are also being destroyed by human hands."


"There must be a world revolution which puts an end to all materialistic conditions hindering woman from performing her natural role in life and driving her to carry out man's duties in order to be equal in rights."



"I've done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I've been swindled all the same because it's never anything more."


"When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!"


"At a time when science plays such a powerful role in the life of society, when the destiny of the whole of mankind may hinge on the results of scientific research, it is incumbent on all scientists to be fully conscious of that role, and conduct themselves accordingly."


"It's quite difficult for me to imagine my life without chess."


"In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously."



"Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins."



"In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle."


"In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure."



"I will protect democracy with my life."



"Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that."


"The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden."


"The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media."



"Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself."


"I'm living by example by continuing on with my career and having a full, rich life, and I am incidentally gay."


"Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that."


"I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman."



"It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?"


"Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics."
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