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Life Quotes


"Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need."


"Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively."


"Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you."



"When contrasted with the much longer time that life has been present, the course of Christianity thus far is but a brief moment."


"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."


"If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work."


"I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is."


"Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets."


"Life is not what it's supposed to be. It's what it is. The way you cope with it is what makes the difference."


"Traditional investment vehicles such as IRAs, CDs, stocks and bonds do have their place, but for the rich, they are used more as temporary storage facilities rather than life-long homes."


"There are very few dance companies in the world and you have to be phenomenal. You have to not be injured. You have to have a really strong mind to deal with the dance world. People who can do it are amazing to me. You cannot have a life outside of dance."


"In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes."


"I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do."


"The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism."


"One of the things I've had the advantage of, growing up and being close to the top management of this company and other companies for most of my life, is seeing how CEOs start to believe in their own infallibility. And that really scares me."


"Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that."


"The music industry's actions at the time of 9/11 and since have been actions driven by patriotism in most instances, and greed and stupidity to a lesser degree. Sounds like real life doesn't it?"


"But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well."
Life,


"Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose."


"Often in life those seemingly ordinary moments hold the most extraordinary meaning."


"Age is a hell of a price to pay for wisdom."
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