Thing About Life Quotes

#1. I think one of the odd things about public life, coming from the outside, is that people seem to be paranoid. Maybe they were quite frank initially, but then they did one thing which went wrong. - Author: Rory Stewart

#2. Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time. - Author: Keke Palmer

#3. The beautiful thing about baseball is that anything can happen. It's like life in that way. As soon as you think you have it all figured out, something happens that makes you realize - you know nothing. The only thing that's guaranteed is that it will be an exciting ride. - Author: Alyssa Milano

#4. ... The shocking thing about any stripper gathering, I discovered, was that you have never heard women talk so fast and so explicitly about money in all your life. They make the guys on the trading floor on Wall Street look like a bunch of pansies. - Author: Susie Bright

#5. Life is not enjoyed by being busy over everything in general, but being passionate about one thing in particular. Always focus on that one thing; dream it and live it! - Author: Israelmore Ayivor

#6. My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic. - Author: Christina Ricci

#7. You definitely do not do films for that particular reason. You do them for yourself, for your satisfaction of creating this thing with characters and watching these characters take on real life - that's all you care about. - Author: Clint Eastwood

#8. The greatest thing about writing is that you get to shape more than one life. - Author: Katja Michael

#9. I couldn't care less what anybody says about me. I live my life, especially my personal life, strictly for myself ... Whatever you do, you're going to be criticized. I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you. - Author: Johnny Carson

#10. The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it. - Author: Albert Einstein

#11. If I could only teach you one thing about the world, it would be to Appreciate and be as present as possible in every moment. Take everything in and try and learn from it. No matter how tangled things get, there is always a lesson to be learned in the untangling of those things. - Author: Bethany Brookbank

#12. The thing about real life is that important events don't announce themselves ... Usually something that is going to change your whole life is a memory before you can stop and be impressed about it. - Author: Edith Schaeffer

#13. I have no motif, only motivation. I believe that motivation is the real thing, the natural thing, and that the motif is old-fashioned, even reactionary (as stupid as the question about the meaning of life) - Author: Gerhard Richter

#14. I've got to that point in life when there's very few thrills and lots of pills seems we all end up this way. As we wait for our final day. But there's one thing about the pills I take. My manic episodes have taken a break - Author: Stanley Victor Paskavich

#15. The thing about Mumbai is you go five yards and all of human existence is revealed. It's an incredible cavalcade of life, and I love that. - Author: Julian Sands

#16. There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death. - Author: Arianna Huffington

#17. There's a funny thing I've noticed about life. When you really dread something, it turns out not to be so bad. It's the unexpected awful things that get you down. - Author: Elizabeth Laird

#18. There is a continuity about the garden and an order of succession in the garden year which is deeply pleasing, and in one sense there are no breaks or divisions - seed time flows on to flowering time and harvest time; no sooner is one thing dying than another is coming to life. - Author: Susan Hill

#19. It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is. - Author: Erich Maria Remarque

#20. Happiness is the only thing that matters in this life. Don't be cavalier about it. Fertilize it with attention and watch it grow. - Author: D.S. Luca

#21. The nice thing about 'Arrow' is we never say never on the show. Hopefully the show will have a nice long life, and all manner of things can potentially happen. - Author: Marc Guggenheim

#22. Mel rolled her eyes. "You can't live your life based on 'what-ifs,' Liv. And change is inevitable. It's the one thing you can always count on. Stop worrying about what might or not happen and follow your heart. How can you expect to ever be happy if you don't? - Author: Alicia Kobishop

#23. Let me tell you what the truth is ... I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad press. There is not. That's a fundamental truth. The more bad things said about you, the more power they give to you. - Author: John McAfee

#24. The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up. - Author: Kate Atkinson

#25. Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon! - Author: Leo Buscaglia

#26. He'd been up early all his life and though everybody said the best thing about retirement was sleeping in, he just couldn't feature it. If he found himself in bed later than six he felt like a degenerate, - Author: T.C. Boyle

#27. The most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject and it does not deal in subjects. It is instead the transfer of a way of life. - Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton

#28. I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me. - Author: William Manchester

#29. I'll say one thing about an oil boom; it will teach a kid that Life's a pretty rotten thing as quick as anything I can think of. - Author: Robert E. Howard

#30. Life is all about chances. It's all about these little moments that add up to greatness. And there are times when you have to grab greatness by the balls and say, 'Hey! Greatness! I've got your nuts and you can't do a single godsdamn thing about it! - Author: T.J. Klune

#31. That's the thing about love, you have to get lost to find someone you can trust. - Author: Debasish Mridha

#32. the present is all that you ever have in life, and that these moments of magic are too precious to be ignored because you're too busy thinking about the next thing. - Author: Nick Alexander

#33. I think ... you should have children, John." At least he's no longer talking about bugs.
"I'm too young, Dad."
"It's the most important thing ... I've done in ... my life. - Author: Ursula Hegi

#34. The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it. - Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

#35. If you could do such a thing as that-and I don't mean lying with a woman, I mean doing it and lying to me about it-then everything I've done and everything I've been-my whole life-has been a lie. And I am not prepared to admit such a thing. - Author: Diana Gabaldon

#36. The one [thing about Amish life] that I'm always going to miss is the closeness that I've had with my family. I still talk to them, but I'm an outsider. - Author: Kate Stoltzfus

#37. It's all about dreams. If I had to attribute my success in life to any one thing it is this. I believed in my dreams, even when no one else did. - Author: Oprah Winfrey

#38. Let me tell you girls the three most important things I learned about life: Number one: Hold fast to your friends; number two: There's no such thing as security; and number three: Don't go see 'Ishtar.' - Author: Estelle Getty

#39. It's a funny thing about life, I think we're born square and we die round - Author: Daniel Gottlieb

#40. The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life. - Author: Sophie Kinsella

#41. The hardest thing about being at Sony was not the travel; it was being divorced from the public and private life I had in New York. Travelling as much as I did, while I didn't lose connection with my friends, I lost a sense of belonging. - Author: Howard Stringer

#42. I don't know about you, but this whole life thing has been the cause of all my problems. - Author: Bond Bixler

#43. I'm in love with everything about show business. The only thing that ever came easy to me in life has been acting. - Author: Carolyn Jones

#44. Young love is strong. First love is powerful. But what you don't know when you're young - what you can't know - is how long life actually is. And the only dependable thing about it, besides death and taxes, is change. - Author: Emma Chase

#45. Up in that room I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about. I was trying to do this all the time I was writing, and it was good and severe discipline. - Author: Ernest Hemingway,

#46. One thing about me, when I make a decision about something, I realize when you make choices in life, that dictates your life. - Author: Chris Tucker

#47. That's exactly the good thing about the Injun life
you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'
which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks - Author: Jim Fergus

#48. I guess that's the thing about riding on cloud nine - it can't last forever. And that particular fall was hard and fast. - Author: Hannah Harrington

#49. Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life. - Author: Wayne Dyer

#50. The most important thing about translucent people is that their life has been deeply transformed by an awakening. - Author: Arjuna Ardagh

#51. The best thing about a horrible city is that it makes you to understand the beauty of the pastoral life! The bad crystallizes the value of the good. - Author: Mehmet Murat Ildan

#52. Make your life your art. It doesn't have to be that you're an artist. I know I talk about art a lot, but I mean a very broad thing with that. You could be a veterinarian, that's your art. Find your art; find your thing you love. - Author: Gerard Way

#53. That's the weirdest thing about being cut off from life. Everything gets washed out or muted or recedes into the background except for other people's laughter. Other people's laughter gets very loud and jarring. It penetrates. It is a reminder that other people live. - Author: Kerry Kletter

#54. There is nothing to fear. There is no such thing as death. Death has nothing to do with us. But you said something about being talented
that it makes one different. Now, that does have something to do with us. And talent in the highest and broadest sense means talent for life. - Author: Boris Pasternak

#55. Everyone needs love, never hurt a living thing [and] don't worry about the choices you make because everything will be fun because life is a closet filled with pool toys, - Author: Amy Poehler

#56. Connecting with my daughter is the most important thing in my life - the priority. I want to be a man who shows up for her. I want to have such a big influence on her, so that she knows she can call me about anything, which she does. - Author: Jamie Foxx

#57. Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box. - Author: Greg Kinnear

#58. A lot of my songs are about death and the fleetingness of life. It just feels good to remind myself about that a lot. For whatever reason. And it's a beautiful thing, actually. It seems to me like it's a beautiful way to live in the world and to relate to things, with an awareness of temporality. - Author: Phil Elvrum

#59. The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love. - Author: Robert A. Heinlein

#60. But the good thing about life, Julian," she continued, "is that we can fix our mistakes sometimes. We learn from them. We get better. One mistake does not define you. - Author: R.J. Palacio

#61. That's the thing about your destiny how are you supposed to know when it arrives? How are you supposed to recognise it from random life? - Author: David Baddiel

#62. People dislike Ronaldo because he's a great player, good-looking and has sex with all the ladies. They get jealous. The only bad thing about Ronaldo's life is Messi. But for him, he would've been the best player in the world for five years in a row. - Author: Luiz Felipe Scolari

#63. The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons. - Author: Jean Renoir

#64. The problem with worry is that we attract the very thing we are trying to avoid. We live a self-fulfilling prophecy. Life keeps its agreement with us through our beliefs, because whatever we think about, we bring about. Life is like a mirror. It reflects back whatever image we present to it. - Author: Robert Anthony

#65. What you think you know about a thing is always the first obstacle you face when trying to get to know it better. - Author: Devon Michael

#66. Life is not about things we do or do not have to do; it's about doing what we should do, about doing the right thing. - Author: Quinn Loftis

#67. Dogs are here to remind us life really is a simple thing. You eat, sleep, take walks, and pee when you must. That's about all there is. They are quick to forgive trespasses and assume strangers will be kind. - Author: Jonathan Carroll

#68. The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes. - Author: Pauline Kael

#69. There are the jobs you get that do something for your confidence, like "I can do this with my life" kind of thing. And then, there are the jobs that maybe bring a certain level of awareness about you as an actor where other people feel like they can hire you. - Author: Rosemarie DeWitt

#70. Doing a story about my mundane, waking life, how much I don't like my job, or breaking up with someone, I don't think so. Those stories don't interest me that much as a general thing. - Author: Jim Woodring

#71. The greatest thing about where my life is right now is it's very relaxed and chill. I'm just hanging out, being myself and doing my work. - Author: Lucas Grabeel

#72. The radical tension between good and evil, as man sees it and feels it, does not have the last word about the meaning of life and the nature of existence. There is a spirit in man and in
the world working always against the thing that destroys and lays waste. - Author: Howard Thurman

#73. I think when people see photos of you out and about in your personal life, they assume that you've asked for it or that you want that attention, but I don't think anyone in their right mind asks for that kind of thing. - Author: Liam Hemsworth

#74. You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession. - Author: Chris Klein

#75. It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it. - Author: Jonathan Tropper

#76. The distinction between a gallery and a museum is enormous. The gallery is about looking at a thing of beauty; the purpose of the activity is an aesthetic response. The museum is actually about the object that lets you get into somebody else's life. - Author: Neil MacGregor

#77. Caring for the one who worries about you is the best thing you can do to strengthen the relationship. - Author: Mohith Agadi

#78. I wouldn't be able to get through this without you. The one good thing about all of this has been that you were brought into my life - Author: Alison G. Bailey

#79. Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life. - Author: Rita Mae Brown

#80. The best thing about being President is that it gets you out of American life. I don't know what the theory is behind this, but it is a fact. The first thing we do with a President is shunt him off to a siding where nothing American can ever happen to him. - Author: Russell Baker

#81. Search your own life for the story only you can tell. The best thing about writing from life is that you can be sure of using original material. And no research is needed beyond the time you spend looking deep inside your own heart. - Author: Elizabeth Held Forsyth

#82. I've learned one thing about life. We're a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does. - Author: Ardel Wray

#83. The Unknown is scary. I'll always have some fear about what's going to happen next. The thing is, the Unknown can also be exciting. Your life could change in an instant anytime. But sometimes, that change is the best thing that will ever happen to you. - Author: Susane Colasanti

#84. This book is about fighting back. The dominant culture -civilization- is killing the planet, and it is long past time for those of us who care about life on earth to begin taking the actions necessary to stop this culture from destroying every living thing. - Author: Derrick Jensen

#85. People change, but there really are limits. One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life. We are children for a very long time. - Author: Adam Phillips

#86. I am sure that no one coming to this ceremony expected a High Court judge to use the occasion to talk about that four-letter word, love. But that's a good thing. In life, never be predictable. It's so uncool. - Author: Michael Kirby

#87. I would never have ever dreamed that I would get married again and then all of a sudden you meet somebody. That's the thing about life. It can be so unexpected. - Author: Gordon Lightfoot

#88. That's the thing about living vicariously; it's so much faster than actual living. - Author: Audrey Niffenegger

#89. If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. - Author: Ray Bradbury

#90. People mess up, you know? But you can't see past it. It's like you choose one thing about them - the worst thing - and say, 'That's who they are,' and ignore the rest of it. Why not choose the best thing about them instead? Or the thing they do the most? - Author: Sarah Skilton

#91. Loving yourself is the single most important thing you can do to create the life of your dreams. - Author: Amy Leigh Mercree

#92. Running has always been a relief and a sanctuary - something that makes me feel good, both physically and mentally. For me it's not so much about the health benefits. Those are great, but I believe that the best thing about running is the joy it brings to life. - Author: Kara Goucher

#93. The only thing about my life that's really changed is the fact that a lot of people know me now. I'm still the same person. - Author: Ruben Studdard

#94. But that was the thing about life. Sometimes it's boring, and nothing happens. Sometimes everything happens at once. And sometimes it's just plain stupid. - Author: Joe Kimball

#95. The people who keep asking if they can't lead a decent life without Christ, don't know what life is about; if they did they would know that 'a decent life' is mere machinery compared with the thing we men are really made for. - Author: C.S. Lewis

#96. That's the thing about running: your greatest runs are rarely measured by racing success. They are moments in time when running allows you to see how wonderful your life it. - Author: Kara Goucher

#97. You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do. - Author: Tony Kushner

#98. My favorite thing in the world is to have just a big dinner with friends and just sit and talk about their life and their difficulties and all of that. - Author: Lykke Li

#99. Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world. - Author: Damien Rice

#100. Becoming a child again is what is impossible. That's what you have a legitimate reason to be upset over. Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it. - Author: Heather O'Neill