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Life Quotes



"I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got."


"I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow."



"People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence."


"Now, Venus is an extremely hostile environment, and as such presents a lot of challenges for a science fiction author who wants to create life there. However, as I began to research it more thoroughly, I found myself intrigued by the possibilities the world offers."


"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."



"As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible."


"I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit."


"Ask those who love Him with a sincere love, and they will tell you that they find no greater or prompter relief amid the troubles of their life than in loving conversation with their Divine Friend."


"It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic."


"I'm not called Jude Law, I have three names; I'm called 'Hunk Jude Law' or 'Heartthrob Jude Law'. In England anyway, that's my full name. That's the cheap language that's thrown around, that sums you up in one little bracket. It doesn't look at your life. But if one looks beyond, there is actually a little bit more."


"The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life."


"I've been in pressure situations before. All my life it's been about pressure and having to get it done. Just because you say it publicly, it does not make me afraid of it or make me shy away from it."


"It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are."



"At the end of the day, humans are social animals and we are at our best when we get to do things with others who appreciate and enjoy what we enjoy. It's what keeps us human."


"The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal."


"One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate."



"Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible."


"Like the philosopher, the author views his task as one of establishing a clear connection between life and history, and of making the past bear fruit for the present and future."


"Don't minimize the importance of luck in determining life's course."


"Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council."


"It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then."


"The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one."


"Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness."



"I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex."


"I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life."


"The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in."


"But the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That's the reason why I was single."



"Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind."


"Al Gore has dedicated his life to detail. George W. Bush has not. He's the first to admit it."
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