top of page
Life Quotes


"If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life."


"The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute."


"An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated."


"Life certainly points it out to you - 'you can go this way or the other way.' You have to decide and it's a very strong decision because, would you sleep well knowing that you're living in the best place, but you're letting the place where you should live alone?"


"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication."



"It was truly a lesson in don't take something at face value. You know, so many of us do in life. Whether it's because of how somebody looks or because of what they're wearing or what have you, you kind of assess a person in the first five minutes before they even speak."



"If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny."


"Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right " no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your way. And there is no reverse."


"In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are."



"Life is like a trumpet - if you don't put anything into it, you don't get anything out of it."
Life,


"There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that."


"Mountain hikes instilled in me a life-long urge to get to the top of any inviting summit or peak."
Life,


"As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent."


"Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life."


"I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it."


"There's no greater show on earth than observing human nature."


"We are either progressing or retrograding all the while. There is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life."
Life,


"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon."


"Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet."


"It's a great time to be an actress at this point in my life."


"Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life."



"Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time."



"I suppose you all grant that woman is a human being. If she has a right to life she has a right to earn a support for that life. If a human being, she has a right to have her powers and faculties as a human being developed. If developed, she has a right to exercise them."
bottom of page

