Famous Quotes & Sayings

Italo Calvino

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

Roger von Oech

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

Kurt Andersen

I think we tend to be kind of ahistorical, and think that life as we are living it in the moment is all we know.

Marcy Kaptur

I view myself as someone who is always trying to make life better in practical ways and putting the pieces together to do that.

Malorie Blackman

A film of my life would never happen!

Mamata Banerjee

I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.

Albert Schweitzer

Late upon the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset . . . there flashed upon my mind, unforseen and unsought, the phrase 'Reverence for Life'.

Albert Schweitzer

Reverence for life . . . does not allow the scholar to live for his science alone, even if he is very useful . . . the artist to exist only for his art, even if he gives inspiration to many. . . . It refuses to let the business man imagine that he fulfills all legitimate demands in the course of his business activities. It demands from all that they should sacrifice a portion of their own lives for others.

Albert Schweitzer

My life carries its own meaning in itself.

Albert Schweitzer

Love . . . includes fellowship in suffering, in joy and in effort.

Albert Schweitzer

Profound love demands a deep conception and out of this develops reverence for the mystery of life. It brings us close to all beings, to the poorest and smallest as well as all others.

Albert Schweitzer

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will.

Albert Schweitzer

True philosophy must start from the most immediate and comprehensive fact of consciousness: 'I am life that wants to live, in the midst of life that wants to live

Albert Schweitzer

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Louise Nevelson

Life isn't one straight line. Most of us have to be transplanted, like a tree, before we blossom.

Michael Buerk

Life is now being lived in accordance with women's rules.

Marcus Aurelius

Life is not merely being alive, but being well

Michael Lee-Chin

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

Ally Walker

Life is not just one thing; life is a lot of things, and I think I've been lucky to do that.

Life is not all about money. It's more about relationships.

Life is not about the things we win, but about the things we keep

Mariano Rivera

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

Aaron Johnson

Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'

Michael Harrington

Life is lived in common, but not in community.

Julie Roberts

Life is like a movie to me. Everybody has their own movie that's playing out every day, and you're writing it.

Life is useless, as long as one does not know the Lord God.

Doug Hutchison

Life is unpredictable and you need to live every day to the fullest.

Ray Bradbury

Life is "trying things to see if they work.

Dito Montiel

Life is tricky - you never know what's going to happen.

Life is too short to live the same day twice!!

Life is too short. Live each day to the fullest. That's what (Victor) did.

Natalie Cole

Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.

Life is so short we must move very slowly.