The people I’ve encountered who are really dangerous in my life don’t go around with their fangs drawn – they are dangerous because of the way they interpret what’s going on. – Ben Mendelsohn
We’re thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually. – Beth Gibbons
When it comes down to it, at the end of the day, I need more out of my life and I need to push myself harder. And if at the end of the day I don’t have it, then I don’t have it, but at least I’m going to put myself out there. If I fail, I’m going to fail terrifically. – Ali Larter
It’s strange that the newspapers don’t see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security. – Agnetha Faltskog
I believe each of us has a mission in life, and that one cannot truly be living their most fulfilled life until they recognize this mission and dedicate their life to pursuing it. – Blake Mycoskie
I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe. – Abigail Adams
I used to tell the players that professional football is a part-time profession. I used to tell them it gets you ready for your life’s work. – Chuck Noll
Harassment is the background radiation of my life. It is a factor in every decision I make. Any time I tweet something or make a post, I’m always thinking about it. – Anita Sarkeesian
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts. – Booker T. Washington
My family is mostly a chosen one. I’ve managed to invite some really amazing people into my life and they become family. Brothers, sisters, siblings, mentors, role models. And I like to live that way, where your family bleeds out into the larger community. – Adrian Grenier
I know how I want to try and live my life. I know I don’t want to leave any darkness behind me. – Ali Hewson
My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven’t elected a new one. There’s no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don’t miss it. – Christopher Hitchens
Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch… the private life is just gone. – Alexander Skarsgard
I don’t want to be one of those people that’s constantly promoting myself on Twitter. I think the fun thing about Twitter is being able to share all the little random things that happen in my life. – Bridgit Mendler
Your life moves in patterns toward things, and things that we achieve finally are part of this mosaic. I just think that we create our own fate. – Arne Glimcher
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. – Booker T. Washington
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives. – Albert Schweitzer
I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life. – Anne Carson
Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I’m 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn’t changed; it’s the same fervour that drives me. – Ahmed Ben Bella
Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty. – Alice Foote MacDougall
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been. – Alan Alda
I’ve had four amazing men in my life, very strong, powerful, wonderful men. I certainly will have a relationship with someone but I don’t think I will get married again. – Cheryl Tiegs