Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meryl Streep

I have a very good life - I'm lucky enough not to be deprived.

Robert Kiyosaki

There is a good life waiting for you. Its just waiting for you to grab it

Maurice Maeterlinck

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

Doug Stanhope

The key to a good life: excess in moderation. They'll tell you moderation is the key to life, but that's bullshit.

Dorothy Allison

The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.

Constantin Brancusi

Theories are patterns without value. What counts is action.

Damian Lewis

Of course the lower classes have always felt downtrodden and aspired to a better life. But there is this theory that people respond to a class structure in England - there was a time when people knew who they were and knew whom they served and as long as management wasn't abusive, it was a good life for people.

Clive James

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

Douglas Horton

Life is good when we think it's good. Life is bad when we don't think.

Donald Trump

My parents lived very long lives. And good lives, too. They're great people, but good lives.

David Coverdale

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

David Bach

Life is not easy. But that's not the only truth that matters in this context. It also happens to be true that it takes just as much effort to have a "bad life," in which you don't get what you want, as it does to have a "good life," where you do. So given the choice, why not go for the good life?

Dashiell Hammett

Brigid O'Shaughnessy: “I haven't lived a good life. I've been bad, worse than you could know.” Sam Spade “You know, that's good, because if you actually were as innocent as you pretend to be, we'd never get anywhere

Confucius

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.

Ann Richards

I have an awfully good life.

Anne Hathaway

Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.

Andrew Young

I like my life. I've had a good life. I think the reason is my parents taught me that life is a burden. But if you take it one day at a time, it's an easy burden.

Angelina Jolie

I think I should learn French and be a better cook - basic, really good life stuff.

Anthony Hopkins

I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life.

Anthony Hopkins

I like the good life too much, I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

Boris Johnson

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

Brendon Burchard

Do yourself and your family a favor: Decide right now that you will write a self-help book someday. I'm serious. A self-help book is a great way to capture what you think makes a good person, a good life and a good world. It's also a "forever document" that you can pass down to future generations. We need more people sharing positive messages and books with the world. Why not be one of those people?

Bruce Jenner

Remember, success is not measured by heights attained but by obstacles overcome. We're going to pass through many obstacles in our lives: good days, bad days. But the successful person will overcome those obstacles and constantly move forward.

Daymond John

Poor people put a low value on themselves and their efforts.

Ben Whishaw

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

Arthur C. Clarke

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

Anton Chekhov

If one wants to lead a good life, A HUMAN LIFE, one must work.

Arianna Huffington

I started asking the big questions that I had asked in college, that my compatriots the Greek philosophers had asked, like 'what is a good life?' Socrates famously said that 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' I started asking these questions from the starting point of 'what is success?'

Diana Vreeland

There's only one very good life and that's the life you know you want and you make it yourself.

Ben Stein

What the White House is trying to do is racialize all politics and they're especially trying to tell the African-American voter that the GOP is against letting them have a chance at a good life in this economy, and that's just a complete lie,

Alan Sillitoe

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine.

Dave Chappelle

I have a very good life, a high quality of life. I have both money and time. No one has that.