Life Has Been Quotes

#1. I am an arena creature - by birth, I think. Most of my life has been spent as a rink rat.

Michael Cohl

#2. The life is not limited to the external reality but the external life, has been formed for the human's experience. The time you feel you are done with all the experiences of the external life, you have a choice to move inward.

Roshan Sharma

#3. Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.

Sylvia Plath

#4. For me, the cooking life has been a long love affair, with moments both sublime and ridiculous.

Anthony Bourdain

#5. I had my bad times. But the good news is that every time this has happened I've taken full responsibility for it. I don't try to duck it, I don't try to dodge it, I don't try to bullshit about it. Truth crushed to the ground will rise again. And that's what my life has been about.

Marion Barry

#6. My life has been filled with unexpected disappointments and tragedies that led to incredible and rewarding opportunities.

Jenn Sadai

#7. I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.

Penelope Lively

#8. When I think about myself, I almost laugh myself to death, My life has been one great big joke, A dance that's walked, A song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke, When I think about myself. Sixty

Maya Angelou

#9. My life has been wonderful. I have done what I felt like. I was given courage and I was given adventure and that has carried me along. And then also a sense of humor and a little bit of common sense. It has been a very rich life.

Ingrid Bergman

#10. YOUR LIFE HAS BEEN A MIX OF TRIUMPHS AND TOILS, CHALLENGES AND TESTS, AND YOU HAVE BEEN FOUND WORTHY. YOUR FAITH IN ME AND YOUR LOVING HEART ARE A TESTAMENT TO MY PEOPLE.
'Thank you, my God.'
COME, BE WITH ME. SIT WITH ME AT MY TABLE; JOIN ME IN RAPTURE. AND BRING YOUR CUTE FRIEND TOO.

Daniel Keidl

#11. I am still capable of feeling used. I am still capable of having a sexual experience that makes me feel like my entire life has been a mean joke.

Charlotte Shane

#12. The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a theme of declaration and discontent in all ages.

William Herschel

#13. Everything I've ever done in my life has been a fluke.

Willard Scott

#14. I have learned that I cannot see into a person's heart to know his spiritual condition. All I can do is tell the jagged tale of my own spiritual journey and declare that my life has been the better for having followed Christ.

Ron Hall

#15. Outside of my family, the prime concern of my life has been nature and its order, and how we have been savagely altering that order.

James Cagney

#16. A woman's place, her entire experience in life, has been and in many places still is dependent upon the man she marries.

Frederick Lenz

#17. For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding extraordinary moments in otherwise normal people.

Mark Boal

#18. My whole life has been decided by fate. I've never planned anything that's happened to me.

Sharon Tate

#19. I don't want you to think that your life has been wasted while you have been so precious to me.

Kiera Cass

#20. The lure of seeing new places, different ways of life, has been almost irresistible.

Walter Dean Myers

#21. My whole life has been a struggle between Poetry and Prose, or call it Music and Law.

Robert Schumann

#22. My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.

Randy Bachman

#23. The whole object of my life has been to inculcate into Cornish people a sense of their Cornishness.

Henry Jenner

#24. Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal.

Paulo Coelho

#25. it is strange, exceedingly strange, to know that one's life has been fulfilled. Yet

Ursula K. Le Guin

#26. My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

Harry Houdini

#27. For years, my life has been flat. I'm not sure how else to describe it. I've never admitted it before. I'm not depressed, I don't think. That's not what I'm saying. Just flat, listless. So much has felt accidental, unnecessary, arbitrary. It's been lacking a dimension. Something seems to be missing.

Iain Reid

#28. Everything in my life has been challenging but rewarding.

Lisa Rinna

#29. Leave your home, O youth, and seek out alien shores. A wider range of life has been ordained for you.

Petronius

#30. If you regret the mistakes you've made and don't wish to repeat them, then your whole life has been worthwhile.

E.R. Mason

#31. I don't think his life has been in any way disfigured by the film. The film did disclose some difficult facts.

Martin Bashir

#32. I think my life has been a long, slow process of trying to move closer and closer to the spirit by moving closer and closer to the heart. The heart is what's important.

Burl Ives

#33. Why do you enjoy torturing yourself? Do you feel life has been too good to you?"
Tatiana stared at him. "Life has," she said slowly, "been too good to me.

Paullina Simons

#34. My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.

Ace Frehley

#35. My timing in life has been extraordinary. I've ridden the crest of the wave of the women's movement.

Susan Sullivan

#36. Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you couldn't have learned any other way.

Eric Maisel

#37. My life has been charmed in the sense that I've met some extraordinary people. But at the end of the day, when you go home and you go to bed, and if you're on your own, you never think of yourself in that way. I'm sure not even people like Angelina Jolie think like that.

Marie Helvin

#38. In search of love and music my whole life has been
Illumination
Corruption
And diving, diving, diving, diving down
To pick up on every shiny thing

Joni Mitchell

#39. Your life has been intentionally designed by God to have a uniquely significant and eternal impact on the world around you.

Tony Dungy

#40. A man whose life has been transformed by Christ cannot help but have his worldview show through.

C.S. Lewis

#41. I like to experiment, and my life has been eventful.

Donna Air

#42. My whole life has been about connecting things that aren't connected.

Joichi Ito

#43. For the last five or six years the most important thing in my life has been my family.

Jimmy Connors

#44. Time passes. That's the rule. No matter what happens, no matter how much it might feel like everything in your life has been frozen around one particular moment, time marches on.

Cynthia Hand

#45. All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

Mahatma Gandhi

#46. My whole life has been a bit like a Nintendo game.

Robin Gibb

#47. Jesus Christ was the ultimate influencer. My life has been influenced by Jesus more than anyone else.

Johnny Hunt

#48. My whole life has been one big broken promise.

Sara Zarr

#49. My life has been devoted to arms, yet I look upon war at all times, and under all circumstances, as a national calamity to be avoided if compatible with national honor.

Zachary Taylor

#50. Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.

Chris Crutcher

#51. And if other old men must be willing, at the end, to push up off their deathbed and adventure out into the unknown, how much more willing must that man be whose whole life has been just such a daily exercise of adventuring, even in the stillness of his own garden? I mean, the poet.

David Malouf

#52. As the seventeenth-century French philosopher Montaigne once said, "My life has been filled with terrible misfortune, most of which never happened.

Kristin Neff

#53. Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.

John Shelby Spong

#54. It seems to me that every step forward in my life has been one that brings me to a better understanding of this: that you do your thing every day the best that you can, and you approach any success at it with humility.

Val Kilmer

#55. I don't know whether my life has been a success or a failure. But not having any anxiety about becoming one instead of the other, and just taking things as they come along, I've had a lot of extra time to enjoy life.

Harpo Marx

#56. Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah.

Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

#57. Habits are behaviors that are repeated regularly and tend to occur subconsciously. Whether you realize it or not, your life has been, and will continue to be, created by your habits. If you don't control your habits your habits will control you.

Hal Elrod

#58. My whole life has been instinctual for me. I wouldn't do well in the computer world. My children look at me for a question and then they quickly look away because they know that I'm not going to know how to make Super Mario or do anything.

Kevin Costner

#59. We see now that the whole cause of our trouble is that people do not base their lives upon God. They have set themselves up as gods, and the gods are fighting one another, and life has been chaos

Martin Lloyd-Jones

#60. Each life is a kind of assignment, I believe," Eliza told her. "You're given this one assigned slot each time you come to earth, this little square of experience to work through. So even if your life has been troubled, I believe, it's what you're meant to deal with on this particular go-round.

Anne Tyler

#61. How my life has been brought to undiscovered lands, and how much richer it gets - all from words printed on a page.... How a book can have 560 pages, but in only three pages change the reader's life.

Emoke B'Racz

#62. Everything in my life has been leading up to this," he whispered. "Everything that's happened, everything I've done has been worth it because it's brought me here.

Suzanne Brockmann

#63. I spent nearly two decades as a social worker and an educator with kids. So, my whole life has been about helping middle-class families. So it's just kind of a hollow argument to say I'm not a family person.

Kyrsten Sinema

#64. [...] we all die, and the length of our life has been set before the earth was formed. Sometimes God takes the little ones to keep the eyes of the rest of the family on Heaven. They will never forget where this road leads if one of their own has already come to the end of it.

Susan Claire Potts

#65. The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar - his life has been a success.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#66. Luckily, I dated all of the losers ages ago. My love life has been stable for a while.

Solange Knowles

#67. My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band.

Dan Fogelberg

#68. My life has been centered around sports. It is where I have met my closest friends and shaped the values that have made me a successful athlete, student and role model for young people.

Jennie Finch

#69. My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'

Ralph Lauren

#70. My own life has been doubly disconnected, as I've written books under two different names. As an author, your name almost becomes a brand; readers know what to expect.

Sophie Kinsella

#71. Almost every one of the great religions of the world has made special provisions for them, and the woman who has preferred a celibate to a domestic life has been able to occupy a position of honor and usefulness.

Mary Livermore

#72. People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

Tina Turner

#73. Film brings together framing and light and color and performance and music and all of that. To me, everything I've done in my life has been preparing me for filmmaking.

Peter Landesman

#74. The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

Jorge Luis Borges

#75. And so much of my life has been about returning home and longing for home, wanting my children to know about my roots. And I thought I can't be the only one to feel this way so I thought it would be an interesting topic to explore.

Sela Ward

#76. One of the great joys of my life has been to travel around the world and meet thousands of Christians in every country.

Billy Graham

#77. Every intelligent person whose life has been passed in a slaveholding State, and who has carefully observed the character and capacity of the African race, will see that a general and sudden emancipation would be absolute ruin to the Negroes, as well as to the white population.

Roger B. Taney

#78. The Bible was so revolutionary and against all that came before it. It was a force for siding with the oppressed and a rebellion against hierarchical, ancient societies. Now it's institutionalized and all the life has been sucked out of it.

Ezra Furman

#79. The next time I will cry is when I die. My life has been that beautiful.

Al McGuire

#80. If somebody else is achieving more than I am, that means I can do it, too. Everybody has the ability to raise themselves up, and my life has been marked by that.

Rob Lowe

#81. My life has been greatly influenced by many books which I have never read.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#82. Life has been given us to enjoy.

Nikolai Leskov

#83. Oh, I'm a survivor. My whole life has been surviving.

Eddie Bracken

#84. My whole professional life has been dedicated to improving access, affordability, quality and choice of health care.

Glenn Thompson

#85. My life has been a gift up to this point, and I've been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I'm going.

Sean Hannity

#86. The great joy and honour of my life has been to know you. To call you my family. And I am grateful - more than I can possibly say - that I was given this time with you all

Sarah J. Maas

#87. I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.

Christine Quinn

#88. My grandmother was a huge influence on me and the fact that there was this very strong, rather formidable presence of women in my life has been an enormous value.

Anthony Minghella

#89. I made my first Australian senior team when I was 16, first Olympics when I was 19, and I retired. I'm 32, I retired four years ago, so a good third of my life or nearly a third of my life has been all about running.

Cathy Freeman

#90. Compared with the thousands of years in which human life has been on this planet, Christianity is a recent development.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

#91. I grew up in this business ... A lot of my life has been centered around this question about how NASA is helping us to understand our own home planet ... and to understand our place in the universe.

Ellen Stofan

#92. The inclination of my life ... has been to do things & make things which will give pleasure to people in new and amazing ways.

Walt Disney

#93. My whole life has been a very communal experience; growing up in a house full of happy hippies, having dinner parties three days a week, and going to Christiania, I was constantly surrounded by people celebrating community. If you look at the films I've done, they all share that theme.

Thomas Vinterberg

#94. Everything good or bad that has occurred in my life has been predictable and inevitable, especially the choices and actions that have made sure I am now utterly alone.

Lucia Berlin

#95. Looking back, I realize that my life has been a series of incidents where one person has said to another, "Get this asshole outta here!"

George Carlin

#96. My life has been the poem I could have writ
But I could not both live and utter it.

Henry David Thoreau

#97. Do not pity me, Beatrice De Novo. My life has been as fate dictated, and now I am master of it. Do not waste your regret on the past.

Elizabeth Hunter

#98. You are all aware that my private life has been pictured to the public by the press of the country with the intent to make people believe me to be a very bad woman.

Victoria Woodhull

#99. All my life has been about proving myself.

Edgerrin James

#100. The skeptic may deny your doctrine or attack your church but he cannot honestly ignore the fact that your life has been changed.

Charles R. Swindoll