Top 100 Life As Quotes
#1. It's the most terrifying day of your life, the day the first one is born. Your life, as you know it, is gone. Never to return. But they learn how to walk, and they learn how to talk, and you want to be with them. And they turn out to be the most delightful people you'll ever meet in your life.
Bill Murray
#2. Most people live their life as if their justification depends on their sanctification: if I do and become all that I must do and become, God will love me and accept me.
Tullian Tchividjian
#3. The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.
Ted Danson
#4. The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point.
Albert Camus
#5. I believe that I'm entitled to regard my pre-political life as off-limits in terms of what can be looked at and judged.
George Osborne
#6. I'm as pro-life as a person gets. You're not going to have a truce.
Paul Ryan
#7. I trained as a writer before I became a lawyer. I was headed for a life as an English professor, but that just wasn't me. I'm not a scholar; I didn't have a scholar's attitude toward literature.
Scott Turow
#8. As a journalist you have to think quickly, you're exposed to all types of people and situations and you've got to synthesize your thoughts in a very clear and concise way and write them down quickly. Those were all things that have proven really useful in my life as a television writer.
Frank Spotnitz
#9. My dad is an unbelievable entrepreneur who balanced his life as a father and a president of two very successful companies.
Rachel Zoe
#10. See life as if it is a miracle, and will find that it is indeed a miracle!
Debasish Mridha
#11. He had to live out the entirety of his life as Dalton Prestwick. It was really a worse fate than anything Tom could inflict on him.
S.J. Kincaid
#12. Any husband who loses interest in the drama of family life, as it unfolds, isn't worth his salt.
E.B. White
#13. Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it's bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#14. I feel it is my Christian duty to be at least as careful in my personal grooming, if not more so, than before my conversion. You may have dry hair and my habits may not be workable for you. But shampooing my hair twice a week is as much a part of my spiritual life as my daily quiet time.
Eugenia Price
#15. When you pursue your goals with passion, you will attract people who love you; but you'll also attract haters. I'm okay with that; I welcome it. I don't want to live life as a spectator. I've learned that if no one is cheering you on and/or booing you; it means you're not in the game.
Steve Maraboli
#16. In all my writings I have always tried - how far successfully I know not - to advance the cause of Truth and Right and to induce my readers to put their trust in the love of God our Saviour, for this life as well as the life to come.
R.M. Ballantyne
#17. Each of us has a purpose for living beyond our own survival and pleasure. Every individual is like a thread in a beautiful tapestry with a vital contribution to make, not only to the sustenance of life as we know it, but in the creation and development of more beneficial expressions of life.
John Templeton
#18. Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.
Swami Vivekananda
#19. All of us are subjected to somebody else's power at some point. So once in a while you kiss ass. So what? Either you make your peace with that early, or you end up living your life as a crank and a misfit.
Sue Grafton
#20. Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility BY JAMES P. CARSE
Daniel H. Pink
#21. I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.
Tim Cook
#22. One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous toad waiting patiently beneath a clump of weeds, knowing full well that eventually you will step on him.
Daniel Handler
#23. Anyone who has owned many cats in long succession can define his or her life as a series of furry episodes.
Roger Caras
#24. People don't like contemporary art, but all art starts life as contemporary - I can't really see a difference.
Damien Hirst
#25. Habits gradually change the face of one's life as time changes one's physical face; & one does not know it.
Virginia Woolf
#26. Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed.
Bill Vaughan
#27. The point is, the only real tools we have are our eyes and our heads. It's not the act of seeing with our eyes alone; it's correctly comprehending what we see. Treating life as an autopsy.
Warren Ellis
#28. Pregnancy seems designed to prepare you for life as a mother. You start making sacrifices nine months before the child is born, so by the time they put in an appearance you are used to giving things up for them.
Brett Kiellerop-Morris
#29. Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me
Walt Whitman
#30. He felt he was a pin in the hinge of power. Saw the commonplaces of life as newspaper headlines. Man Walks Across Parking Lot at Moderate Pace. Women Talk of Rain. Phone Rings in Empty Room.
Annie Proulx
#31. As someone who played music and never got famous, and remembers little fragments of that, I don't remember life as a dramatic flamboyant thing.
Leni Zumas
#32. You have a responsibility to your future self, who is someone you might not even know, might not even understand yet. Because until you die, that future self has as much of a life as you do. [ ... ] Your life is not disposable.
David Levithan
#33. Walk through life as a Blessed Person and a Miracle Maker.
Robert Muller
#34. Everything had kept getting less, they'd had to leave behind more and more baggage, or else it was taken from them, as though they were now too weak to carry all those things that are part of life, as though someone were trying to force them into old age by relieving them of all this.
Jenny Erpenbeck
#35. Every child I know who overcame long odds and grew into a responsible adult can point to an adult who stepped into his or her life as a FRIEND, a MENTOR, and a GUIDE.
S. Truett Cathy
#36. Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.
Bill Murray
#37. I try to navigate my life as if it were a Ferrari. The more conscious I am, the more I process the information I'm given and readjust based on what I've learned, the smoother my ride in life becomes.
Michael Strahan
#39. I am as close to changing my life as my current positive thought
Louise Hay
#40. Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.
Nina Simone
#41. Hold tight to the mentality of being a student, meaning hold on to curiosity and approach life as a student.
Mahershala Ali
#42. He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.
Mary Renault
#44. The first thing I think about is music, and the last thing I think about is music. I'm like some Monk. I don't see a lot of daylight. I hang out with musicians, I hang out with directors and I just try to spend as much of my life as possible playing music.
Hans Zimmer
#45. When you have had nothing most of your life, you learn to appreciate the small things in life. The real challenge is appreciating the small things in life as you start to acquire material things and amassing wealth.
Jim Robinson
James Morris Robinson
#46. I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be,
Robert Doisneau
#47. Wimps take life as it comes; superior people slap life up the side of the head until it gives them turf.
Jim Davis
#48. The real contribution of Rihani consists in having given us, in both Arabic and English, what may be considered the most vivid and interesting account of common-day life as it is lived at present in the hitherto little known Arabia.
Philip Khuri Hitti
#49. Latter-day Saints, having received the gift of the Holy Ghost by the laying on of hands, are entitled to personal inspiration in the small events of life as well as when they are confronted with the giant Goliaths of life.
James E. Faust
#50. As I took up life as a minister, I tried to understand why so many people resisted and rejected God, I soon realized that perhaps that main reason was affliction and suffering.
Timothy Keller
#51. But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.
Beau Bridges
#52. I'm as cruel as life. As cruel as love.
L.J.Smith
#53. But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.
Paul Auster
#54. Well when my death is in front,
I just want to turn back to my life,
And say the last thing,
looking in to its lens that,
"Life oh my life,
Nobody would have ever painted
this life as beautiful as i did". Good Bye
-Ravi
Ravi
#57. I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.
Robert A. Heinlein
#58. I now view life as a complex and unpredictable affair that cannot be mastered. It can be embraced. It can be negotiated more or less skillfully. But mastered? Not a chance.
Gary Hayden
#60. I am afraid of people because they want me to lead the same kind of life as they do. They want me to dance jolly and cheerful things. I do not like jollity. I love life.
Vaslav Nijinsky
#61. But we did it," said Alys. "We found Morgana and we helped her. How can you worry about detentions when life as we know it has just been saved?
L.J.Smith
#62. Certain though I am - and ever more certain - that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#63. Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera.
Chris Lowe
#64. Indeed our words will remain lifeless, barren, devoid of any passion, until we die as a result of these words, whereupon our words will suddenly spring to life and live amongst the hearts that are dead, bringing them to life as well.
Sayyid Qutb
#65. Life as it should be: all friends, all art, all music, all love, all the time.
Amanda Palmer
#66. Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Aristotle.
#67. I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.
Juliana Hatfield
#68. Pay as much attention to the things that are working positively in your life as you do to the things that give you trouble.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#69. Since I turned 50, I've had the best year of my life and I now throw as much effort into the social side of my life as I do work - more so now than ever before.
Carol Vorderman
#70. Human life as a whole is not inundated by technique. It has room for activities that are not rationally or systematically ordered. But the collision between spontaneous activities and technique is catastrophic for the spontaneous activities.
Jacques Ellul
#71. I think every man a woman meets brings with him a kernel of truth about the concentric notions of men. So when they ask if my stories are true. I laugh since it would imply that i used every man in my life as my muse.
Crystal Evans
#72. The View of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and the ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.
Norman Rockwell
#73. I want to have a choice to skip life events and the whole life as a overall.
Deyth Banger
#74. Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book.
Christina Baldwin
#75. When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside.
Amy Tan
#76. In this life, as you work for the glory of Jesus and the good of others, you should do so with an eye to his return. It will lead to earnestness and create an urgency in your life to make the most of all your days.
Joe Thorn
#78. As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole.
Eknath Easwaran
#79. I had a fantasy that i'd drift up to Scotland and spend my life as a faux bodhisattua.
David Bowie
#80. Here's the bottom line: I can't play someone if I can't figure out what he cares about. Everybody cares about something, even a rough character. It defines where we step in life. As soon as you find out what somebody cares about, then it all gets real.
William Fichtner
#81. your life." "You mean my life without Kimi? Or you mean my life as a
James Patterson
#82. I have always been attracted to difficult work. There really doesn't seem much point in looking for the easy life as an actor. I would simply get bored.
Robert Powell
#83. If we are invested in a writing life - as opposed to a writing career - then we are in it for the process and not the product.
Julia Cameron
#84. The truth is that you have to fight your way through brutal, ugly realities in order to find that moment of clarity, that one slant of light or shift in emotion that yields unexpected art. That's just as true for life as it is for crime scene photography.
Maggie Ybarra
#85. Assaulted as I am by ambition, covetousness, rashness and superstition, and having such enemies to life as that within me, should I start wondering about the motions of the Universe?
Michel De Montaigne
#86. Everything of this life as a mortal is fiction. It seems real, but ...
Richard Bach
#87. Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.
Marcus Aurelius
#88. Words of praise, indeed, are almost as necessary to warm a child into a genial life as acts of kindness and affection. Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#89. Life as Art
If you want to turn your life into a masterpiece
you must humble yourself to sell
a couple of shitty postcards
along the way.
Beryl Dov
#90. There is no royal road to a successful life, as there is no royal road to learning. It has got to be hard knocks, morning, noon, and night, and fixity of purpose.
Charles M. Schwab
#91. Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.
Giancarlo Esposito
#92. Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.
Jose Saramago
#93. The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.
James Hillman
#94. Making friends with the impersonal necessity of death is an ethical way of installing oneself in life as a transient, slightly wounded visitor.
Rosi Braidotti
#95. Allow God to use the difficulties and disappointments in life as polish to transform your faith into a glistening diamond that takes in and reflects His love.
Elizabeth George
#96. Even when times are dark, the darkest, even when you are sure that life as you know it is over, there are still things that last.
Deb Caletti
#97. It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.
Paul Begala
#98. Don't assume I have everything figured out ... I get as confused about life as everybody, and sometimes I think I'm just hurtling through the world without a plan at all.
Leslie Mann
#99. To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
Martin Luther
#100. Looking up at the stars, he had accepted life as a medium for action. Something to wield like a tool. One's own life: an instrument for the shaping of the world.
Laini Taylor
