Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Charlie ChaplinThey tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
Arthur SchopenhauerMan is born to live, not to prepare for life
Boris Pasternak'This huge life-changing moment of going from zero to ninety in two seconds!'
- on receiving her lead role on JAG
Catherine BellI've been exercising all my life... I was a long sprinter. The ones that hurt.
Victoria PrattA woman scorned is an old theme in country music. I think what's changed are the values from which the music reflects real life.
Steven Curtis ChapmanThe purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBen Johnson must still be the fastest human in the world. He served a lifetime sentence in just two years.
Mike LittwinNobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
Elizabeth BowenBe thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
Lord ByronIf you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humour.
Jennifer JonesLittle men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds
Zig ZiglarA lot of the evidence and some of the events you see in LA Justice are loosely based on real-life cases.
Christopher DardenBefore [being a model] I was bored out of my mind, now I can hardly believe how exciting my life has become.
Nicola T"Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life."
Jean AnouilhI used to trouble about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.
Joanna FieldNirvana saved my lizard. I bought an iguana and for two days it didn’t move. Then I put on Smells Like Teen Spirit and it came to life. That’s when I knew this was a great record.
Mark OwenA belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.
Vannevar BushI honestly never thought that I would appear on This is your Life so when it happened it took me a while to get over the shock of it all!
Brian BlessedLife will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.
Samuel SmilesThe last series I played here [Sri Lanka] was the toughest of my life ... so for a young offspinner it's going to be even tougher. I'm just glad the lifeguards dragged him in.
Ashley GilesSorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Lord ByronAnything for a quiet life (title of book)
Thomas MiddletonLife opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
Jim CarreyDon't go through life, grow through life.
Eric ButterworthI could field as long as I can remember, but hitting has been a struggle all my life.
Brooks Robinson'If you want anything to actually change or to move ahead in your life you actually have to do it yourself, you can´t sit there and wait for somebody or talk about what you might want, you know, you should actually keep dreams and desires inside and let them burn a little bit, and then they might come true'
Russell CroweLife exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties. (The Mysterious Universe)
Sir James JeansDo not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Elbert HubbardI saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.
Arthur RimbaudThere is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life
Frank ZappaI have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T S EliotLife's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.
Belinda CarlisleI have been a depressed person most of m life. I was always in the throes of self-hatred.
Eve EnslerIf a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair.
Samuel JohnsonLife isn't all beer and skittles; but beer and skittles or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education
Thomas HughesSport is a preserver of life.
HippocratesWhat a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean.
P G WodehouseIf A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Albert EinsteinLife is just a bowl of cherries (title of song 1931)
Louise BrownsteinWatching Life on Mars was quite frightening for me because dipping in and out of reality was quite like myself
Richard HammondAll I've done all my life is disobey.
Edith PiafActing is not all that it is cracked up to be; one of the most over-rated things that there is in life!
Judy HollidayI have lived my life - my adult life - like, what I would consider - an international popstar.
You know what I mean by that?
I've always had fun.
Paul ClarkeRome is the one great spiritual organisation which is able to resist and must, as a matter of life and death, the progress of science and modern civilization
Thomas HuxleyIn all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart.
Henry ClayMay every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.
Patrick BlackettA happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.
CiceroIf life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
Johnny CarsonI can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction.
Roman Polanski
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