Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Jonson

Our whole life is like a play.

Ben Jonson

In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.

Ben Jonson

The dignity of truth is lost with much protesting.

Rory Bremner

I don't think my life would be significantly poorer if I don't impersonate Nick Clegg. Life is short enough without sitting up night after night listening to tapes of him.

Richard Flanagan

The past is there, but life is circular. I have a strong sense of the circularity of time.

Ric Ocasek

I've never been on a water slide in my life.

Rita Ora

Listen, sharing my life with people is just part of my daily routine.

Samantha Morton

Most of my life, I've been on a film set. There isn't anything to learn, not learn, unlearn. It's just in me.

Sherry Argov

If you're 30 years old, you have your whole life ahead of you.

Alexis Arguello

I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you the strength to do the right thing and behave the right way and overcome the mind.

Alexis Carrel

Life leaps like a geyser for those willing to drill through the rock of inertia.

Alexis Carrel

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice.

Alexandra Stoddard

We choose how enthusiastically we live our time alive.

Alexei Navalny

Life makes no sense if you have to tolerate endless lies. I will never accept this system, which is built on lies, i will not stop my fight against this junta.

Alexandra Adornetto

Sometimes you meet a person and you just click-you're comfortable with them, like you've known them your whole life, and you don't have to pretend to be anyone or anything.

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