Life Quotes
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 L. Stimson
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Zarya, 1994
Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.George Eliot, Romola, 1863
How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
No doubt there are other important things in life besides conflict, but there are not many other things so inevitably interesting. The very saints interest us most when we think of them as enganged in a conflict with the Devil.Robert Lynd
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.W. Somerset Maugham
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.William Faulkne
Cast aside those who liken godliness to whimsy and who try to combine their greed for wealth with their desire for a happy afterlife.Kahlil Gibran
Whether they ever find life there or not, I think Jupiter should be considered an enemy planet.Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.Henri Estienne
There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.Oswald Mosley
No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.Robert Heinlein, "Job", 1984
Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.David Mamet
Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.W. R. Inge
Life goes on within you and without you.George Harrision, From the song "Within you without you" from Sgt Peppe
One path alone leads to a life of peace: The path of virtue.Juvenal
Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.Ivy Baker Priest
Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.William James
Get pleasure out of life... as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.Sol Hurok
Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate As we voyage along through life, Tis the set of the soul That decides its goal And not the calm or the strife.Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.Walter Bagehot
Live you life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift - There is nothing small about it.Florence Nightingale
Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly.Robert Doisneau
The things that will destroy America are prosperity - At - Any - Price, safety - First instead of duty - First, the love of soft living, and the get - Rich - Quick theory of life.Theodore Roosevelt
The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.George Bernard Shaw
I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.J Danforth Quayle
One of the secrets of a happy life is continuous small treats.Iris Murdoch
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it? three minutes; to collect the data in it? all my life.F. Scott Fitzgerald
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.George Eliot
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.Leo Buscaglia
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.Dudley Field Malone
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.Herbert Henry Asquith
Come, for the House of Hope is built on sand bring wine, for the fabric of life is as weak as the wind.Wilfred Wilson Gibson
Is life worth living? Yes, so long As there is wrong to right.Alfred Austin
The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far, die on a mountainside than in bed. What kind of man would live where there is no daring And is life so dear that we should blame men for dying in adventure Is there a better way to die.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
