Life Quotes

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I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor — those great tools of thought — and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.

Naomi Shihab Nye

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life.

Life — a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.

Charles Lindbergh

Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on.

Isaac Rosenberg

Of all the Beauties, it is that which attracts the most lasting Admiration, gives the greatest Charm to every thing we say or do, and renders us amiable in every Station, and thro' every Stage of Life.

The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense.

Talcott Parsons

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Stephen Leacock

Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.

Whittaker Chambers

Preaching is of much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument that you can offer to the skeptic.

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

Georges Bataille

You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle

David Nicholls (writer)

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I feel satisfied with it.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.