Life Quotes

You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montanta, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time.

George Carlin, You Are All Diseased

Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

As each child looks at the world through innocent eyes all they can see, Is the worlds way of life and the way they think their lives should be.

Kandice Hehner, Innocent Eyes

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

Marquis de Condorcet

If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered.

Stephen Hawking, Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005

This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected - - In so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.

Thomas Mann

If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.

Author Unknown

Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.

Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.

There is more stupidity then hydrogen in the universe and it has a longer shelf life.

Frank Zappa

Life is good, if you like that sort of thing.

Overheard in Palo Alto...

As soon as there is life there is danger.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude (1870)

Life without emotions is like an engine without fuel.

Mary Asto

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

Dudley Field Malone

A man may be a patriot without risking his own life or sacrificing his health. There are plenty of lives less valuable.

James Mellon, who paid $300 for a civil war Union army deferment

Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

Charles M. Schulz

It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.

W. Somerset Maugham

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope.

Reinhold Niebuhr, Rockford (IL) Register Star newspape

Music is essentially useless, as life is.

George Santayana

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.

Bill Vaughan

I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back.

Albert Camus, The Strange

Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways.

Akhenaton

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.

George Washington Carve

If life were measured by accomplishments, most of us would die in infancy.

A. P. Gouthey

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

Alexandre Dumas, fils

My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born and that is all that is necessary.

Albert Einstein

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Life is very important to Americans.

Bob Dole

He is the better equipped for life. As for swimming, who has the less to carry.

Apuleius

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar.

Grace Paley

Life is pain, anyone who says differently is selling something.

William Goldman, The Princess Bride

Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to make peace right in the moment, we are alive.

Thich Nhat Hanh

It is a brave act of valor to condemn death, but where life is more terrible than death it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Sir Thomas Brown

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania.

Dorothy Parker, Not So Deep as a Well (1937), "Comment".

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Jewish Prove

Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame.

MG Siriam

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.

Unknown

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.

Henry Stimson