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Life Quotes


"Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not the kind of person to rebel or do things. I don't know. I don't let the potential for bad press dictate who I am, but I keep that in mind. How can you not?"


"I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom."


"If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, there would be no need for fiction."


"Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free."


"If we are genuinely committed to promoting a culture of peace, as individuals we must look to our values and ensure that we all exhibit a peace loving life to our nation's children."


"Our country is not in crisis; there are no tanks in the streets. No matter what the outcome of the president's situation, life in America will go on. Our lives will continue to be filled with practical matters, not constitutional ones."


"What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out."


"It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else."


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


"I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene."


"I'm not sure. I did not set it up. I have never done a polygraph test in my life. I didn't know what to expect. I was just there to answer the questions that they put in front of me."


"Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other."


"It seems essential to try to find some meaning to life and I guess Jungian philosophy is the one that's helped me understand myself and the world more than anything else."


"Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened."


"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."


"Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!"


"When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world."


"If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon."


"The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right."


"Some of us see endless darkness and get scared. Some of us see the joyful moon and dancing stars."


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


"The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved."


"The rubber industry is of much significance to our countries. For millions of our smallholders, the rubber tree is a tree of life, serving as a crucial source of income for earning a living and raising families."


"Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury."


"It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life."


"Every life is a profession of faith, and exercises an inevitable and silent influence."


"The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class."


"By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life."
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