Top 100 Life But Quotes
#1. I read somewhere that Rubens said students should not draw from life, but draw from all the great classic casts. Then you really get the measure of them, you really know what to do. And then, put in your own dimples. Isn't that marvelous!
Willem De Kooning
#2. We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. One can have many regrets in life, but they are temporary. There are lessons to learn from every mistake.
Jeev Milkha Singh
#4. I think one thing that women can do is to just be more honest, with themselves and with their friends, and be more willing to say I'm really excited about this part of my life, but I'm screwing up over here, or this is a mistake I've made, or this is something I've given up on.
Debora Spar
#5. If you have nothing in life but a good friend, you're rich.
Michelle Kwan
#6. Remember that we are not gods who can fashion events to our desires. We are mere mortals who must learn not to contend with life but to yield to it.
Bette Bao Lord
#7. I was high on life but eventually I built up a tolerance.
Arj Barker
#8. McCain might have suffered hardships in his life, but what had happened to him had nothing to do with his background or his color; they were convenient excuses now. He had been a psychopath from the start.
Anthony Horowitz
#9. It is well known that I am pro-life ... but I would not seek to impose my views on the Canadian people.
Stockwell Day
#10. Life is a matter of passing the time enjoyably. There may be other things in life, but I've been too busy passing my time enjoyably to think very deeply about them.
Peter Cook
#11. I kept arguing that 'love is the most important force, love is the most important force.' So I wanted to show him loving. Sometimes it's dramatic: it means you lay down your life. But sometimes it means making sure someone's trunk is packed and hoping they'll be O.K. at school.
J.K. Rowling
#12. Work is only a part of life. But work is life only when done in mindfulness. Otherwise, one becomes like the person who lives as though dead.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#13. I have always been very open and earnest about some things in my life, some things that are not directly in my life, but they're twirling around me at the time.
Ben Gibbard
#14. There are not many regrets that I have. There are a few things that I wish I'd changed in my life, but they are not so dramatic that I'd go out of my way to change them. But I go back and think about my life so far periodically in my head.
Mike Tyson
#15. It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before a higher god.
Adolf Hitler
#16. Theologians pitted devotion and morality against belief, defining faith no longer as a way of life but rather as intellectual assent to certain creeds or confessions; their books were filled with "quarrelling, disputing, scolding, and reviling."38
Diana Butler Bass
#17. You've made mistakes, yes. And I have no doubt, just as anyone who lives and breathes, that you will make many more in your life. But it doesn't change who you are deep down inside.
Morgan Rhodes
#18. Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.
Mother Teresa
#19. Do not feel inadequate to face your life. You are designed to face life, but not alone. You are intended to be a part of me. Allow me to go before you and prepare the way.
Julia Cameron
#20. It's a lonely life, but you're used to it now, aren't you?
Ray Bradbury
#21. My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative.
Rose Kennedy
#22. If only she could be bold enough, and brave enough, to claim the things she wanted: love, a purpose, a life. But could she be?
Jennifer Donnelly
#23. All men have life, but only few men know its value.
Sunday Adelaja
#24. Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but we are afraid of it; generous endurance of trials of life, but when they come we weep and ask to be. The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist.
Pope Pius X
#25. It's a story you can break down and analyze and find analogies and lessons in it, and then it becomes a story about life. But you can also experience it whole, and then it's not a story about life. Then it is life.
Noam Shpancer
#26. Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.
Carly Fiorina
#27. So all of these things are going on that make you wake up and realize you are a mortal person. You can choose to cruise through your life, but if you do, you're going to open your eyes at some point, and it's gone.
Kathy Mattea
#29. I believe in it, and I trust it too and treasure it above everything, the personal, the personal, the personal! I put my faith in it not only as the source, the ground of meaning in art, in life, but as the meaning itself.
Eudora Welty
#30. Love empowers us to live fully and die well. Death becomes, then, not an end to life but a part of living.
Bell Hooks
#31. Why, therefore, do we delay to abandon our hopes of this world, and give ourselves wholly to seek after God and the blessed life? But
Augustine Of Hippo
#33. My child, may you live happily forever. May you experience great success and happiness in life! But you will never be able to experience bliss. For, the one who sins cannot attain bliss, he might get everything in his life but not bliss ~ Gayatri Kashyap
Kirtida Gautam
#34. It's definitely the hardest tackle I've taken in my life but I'm still breathing and that's a good sign.
Derick Hougaard
#35. If you reconnect with nature and the wilderness you will not only find the meaning of life, but you will experience what it means to be truly alive.
Sylvia Dolson
#36. Nazi Germany was so destructive to Judaism not only for the loss of life, but because many who survived began to see the practice of Judaism as somewhat of a health hazard.
Jon Stewart
#37. You can make up your mind to do one of two things: You can have a good time in life, or you can have a successful life, but you can't have both. You have got to make up your mind at the start which of the two you are going to have.
Charles M. Schwab
#38. Stupidity is a fact of life, but unmentionable. The new Prudery.
Mason Cooley
#39. I really, specifically, love acting, and I think it's a really cool thing to be really indulgent and follow that. I have a lot of ambitions in life, but for the next few years, I just want to be an actor. That's a lucky opportunity, and that drives me to want to be good at that.
Kristen Stewart
#40. Singing is just another outlet to express what I feel and to show everyone who I really am. I really don't talk about my personal life that much in interviews because that's my life, but with music, the way I write explains who I am.
Raven-Symone
#41. I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!
Elton John
#42. It's been a rollercoaster life but it hasn't been boring.
Cynthia Payne
#43. There might not be a measure of happiness left in a life, but there could be beauty and grace and endless love.
Peter Heller
#44. I don't want to judge anyone's sex life - but I worry that those are the only options we are giving to our young people.
Christopher Rice
#45. A person can hurry through or sleep walk through life, but whenever they stop to catch their breath or awaken from a long nap, they will find apprehension, disquiet, and fretfulness waiting their directed attention.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#46. He'd never hit a woman in his life, but as Pam moved in for more, he couldn't shake the thought that it would feel so satisfying to connect his right elbow with this bitch's jaw.
Blake Crouch
#47. People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there.
Jennifer Lopez
#48. Whatever you choose to do with your time on earth, do it passionately, follow the voice of your soul and don't focus some much on being interested in life, but being the interesting one full of life.
Nikki Rowe
#49. I see no business in life but the work of Christ.
Henry Martyn
#50. Some people have an unconquerable love of riddles. They may have the chance of listening to plain sense, or to such wisdom that explains life; but no, they must go and work their brains over a riddle, just because they do not understand what it means.
Isak Dinesen
#51. I can't cook to save my life but I can bake a flour-less chocolate-hazelnut tort with a spicy caramel sauce.
Anna Kendrick
#52. My goal is to be the most magical person you know. I say that all the time, because it's an idea that really does shape my daily life. But you might not have met me, or maybe you aren't familiar with me at all. Still, I know that you have a person who has given you that feeling.
Stephen Lovegrove
#53. My girlfriends are my life, but I'm also one of those girls who can hang out with the guys.
Sophia Bush
#54. Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves.
Mahatma Gandhi
#55. You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever!
Huey Newton
#56. By this age, there is almost everything you need in your life, but it isn't free, you must fight to snatch it from the cruel powerful hands that withhold it from you.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#57. You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
Francesca Annis
#58. I have never advised the destruction of life, but of property, yes.
Emmeline Pankhurst
#59. That's really what it comes down to, in the end. Making choices. You can't predict life, but you can do your darndest to make it the best it can be.
Kaira Rouda
#60. Above all things, the plainsmen had to have in instinct for direction. I never had a compass in my life, but I was never lost.
Charles Goodnight
#61. Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.
Gregory Maguire
#62. I've been told on more than one occasion that I should stop reading so much and actually have a life, but do you know what I've figured out? People in books are much more interesting than the people who've told me that.
Bart Yates
#63. You don't really know who you're going to fall in love with at what time in their life. They can be the worst off they've ever been in their life, but you can't help who you fall in love with. That's part of the excitement of life - new people, new experiences.
Kirsten Dunst
#64. I've had some painful experiences in my life, but I feel like I'm trivializing them by using them for a scene in a movie. I don't want to do that. It just makes me feel kind of dirty for having done that.
Christian Bale
#65. I don't talk about my personal life. But the relationships I've had have usually been with other musicians. It's just easier that way.
Shelby Lynne
#66. I can only really speak for myself and what I've noticed in my kids and the people in my life, but because dinosaurs were real, and yet they seem so fantastical, is why they held such a huge fascination for me as a child. They're so different from human beings.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#67. It's not what you achieve in life, but who you become as a person due to those achievements.
Curtis Martin
#68. Destiny doesn't control your life, but it does place you on a path. It's how you walk down that path that determines stories I tell.
Pamela Yates
#69. Over the years I have realized it's not the people who come into your life but the choices they force you to make gives the direction to your life.
Amit Abraham
#70. I look for you in every life, but I don't always find you. And sometimes I find you too late.
Kirsten Miller
#71. I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been but one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time, it is the accusation that I am, in essence, nothing more than an escapist. Apparently this is bad, suspect, possibly even un-American.
J. Maarten Troost
#72. Talk about life - but in your own way.
Howard Pyle
#73. The whole point is that writing has a pattern and life hasn't. Life is so untidy. Art is so short and life so long. It is not possible to have perfection in life but it is possible to have perfection in a novel.
Elizabeth Taylor
#75. Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
#76. We have a plan for life but sometimes, life has a different plan for us
Saji Ijiyemi
#77. I am going to say something that will knock your lights off. God has the power to take life but he can't. He's got the power to do it but he won't. He's bound, he can't. He says, "Death and life are in the power" of whose tongue? Yours.
Jesse Duplantis
#78. This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.
Maria Montessori
#79. See, I thinked, Meronym knows a lot 'bout Smart an' life but Valleysmen know more 'bout death.
David Mitchell
#80. Every day we all make little MISTAKES in life, but that doesn't mean we have to pay for them for the rest of our lives.Sometimes GOOD people make BAD choices, but that doesn't mean we are BAD people...It just means we are HUMAN!
Karen Gibbs
#81. I grew up on the beach and played side-out scoring all my life, but rally scoring is better for our sport. There is pressure on every play. You can't make a mistake, but that also means your opponent can't make a mistake. It makes the matches more exciting to watch.
Holly McPeak
#82. I tend to begin with what you might call the very small world of personal life. But I am certainly interested in how that small, intimate world connects or doesn't connect with a larger world.
Graham Swift
#83. I made a list of things I wanted to do with my life, but it ended up mostly being a list of books I wanted to write
Ellie Rose McKee
#84. The pursuit of holiness is a joint venture between God and the Christian. No one can attain any degree of holiness without God working in his life, but just as surely no one will attain it without effort on his own part.
Jerry Bridges
#85. I'm going to try to do music for the rest of my life, but that's just trying. Maybe it's not going to work out. Who knows?
Mac DeMarco
#86. I'd like to start off by saying that every experience no matter what it is, good or bad, you'll learn from it. That's just life. But something I've done I've regretted is probably picking on my siblings growing up, because you appreciate them so much more as you grow older.
Olivia Culpo
#87. I've always wanted to do right in life. But the wanting and the doing aren't quite the same thing.
Mark Wahlberg
#88. I gave him my life, but you cannot ask me to stop living.
Victoria Schwab
#89. It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us.
Viktor E. Frankl
#90. Obviously, I've seen what the press has done to my cousins. I would never let that rule my life, but I'm not the kind of person to rebel or do things. I don't know. I don't let the potential for bad press dictate who I am, but I keep that in mind. How can you not?
Lauren Bush
#91. When people say that kids change your life, it's no small feat what they do. I've stressed about competition my whole life, but the minute I held my son Blaise in my arms for the first time, those stresses diminished.
Amanda Beard
#92. I record cello Etudes that are fewer than four minutes long and post them on YouTube. How can one execute fully-formed ideas with utmost perfection, yet stay free enough to allow improvisatory nuance? This has immediate application in almost every area of life, but especially in performance.
Joshua Roman
#93. In this world it is possible to achieve great material wealth, to live an opulent life. But a life built upon those things alone leaves a shallow legacy. In the end, we will be judged by other standards.
Cesar Chavez
#94. Spirits ... Ghosts ... Angels ... whichever yo wish to call them - Reader, they do exist. I've seem them all my life, but I've learned to say nothing. And for all you cynics out there, just remember, there is no proof either way. So I choose to believe. In my opinion, it's much the best option.
Lucinda Riley
#95. Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but a lot of the time.
Etgar Keret
#96. I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life.
Pamela Sue Martin
#97. God's presence is not just Light, and Life, but Love. And Love invites, but does not compel.
Frederica Mathewes-Green
#98. An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#99. Making music is a wonderful way to spend your life, but do it for the love before a career. Enjoy it.
Nigel Godrich
#100. I've been playing piano my whole life, but I'd never tried to understand how compositions are made, really. Try to imagine if you'd loved paintings your whole life but had never painted one. My aspiration now is just to understand.
Caio Fonseca
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