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Life Quotes

I’ve met men who’ve stood in long lines on my book tours, and they’ve said things like, ‘I’ve read your books and they’ve changed the direction in my life, and I want to thank you.’ I think they’re standing in line for their wife or their mother or their sweetheart or somebody, but no.

– Beverly Lewis

When you do life a certain way, it’s bound to give you a higher level of probability to succeed, and that’s what we preach.

– Andrew Cherng

I’m okay. Nobody’s bothering me. Everyone’s very kind, and very polite. I don’t feel like my whole life changed.

– Berenice Bejo

Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.

– Alan Furst

When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my life.

– Brigitte Bardot

Golf has been such a gift in my life, and I’ve enjoyed it so much and enjoyed lots of wonderful times on the golf course with my husband first, and then I got to play in all these celebrity tournaments. I’m often the only female celebrity in the tournament, hence the term ‘Token Chick.’ So it’s been such a great, great gift in my life.

– Cheryl Ladd

I’ve always been a private person, and I’ve always valued my private life.

– Amber Heard

I’ve been strong and determined all my life about many things I’ve wanted.

– Calvin Klein

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

– Carlos Fuentes

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay ‘in kind’ somewhere else in life.

– Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

– Anthony Hopkins

My goals in football helped make me disciplined and focused in all areas of my life.

– Benjamin Watson

I don’t know where I see myself next month let alone five years. My whole life is last minute. I enjoy the spontaneity of it; I like not knowing what I will do next or whether I will be in the country next week. I just enjoy being around a creative environment.

– Amber Le Bon

The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.

– Alfred Jarry

Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.

– Anita Brookner

For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress.

– Barney Frank

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

– Allen Tate

I can’t complain that I’ve had a public all through my writing life, but people don’t quite know what I’ve written. People don’t read you too closely. Perhaps, after I’ve died, they’ll look at my stuff, and read it through, and find there’s more in it. That may be wrong, but that’s what I comfort myself with.

– Alan Bennett

All the foods that you regularly eat are ones that you learned to eat. Everyone starts life drinking milk. After that, it’s all up for grabs. From our first year of life, human tastes are astonishingly diverse.

– Bee Wilson

My father earned every penny he had, and I would have loved to have bought him a Rolls-Royce because his whole life was cars. Sadly, he didn’t live to see the day when I could have done that for him, which still hurts.

– Bruce Forsyth

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

– Cary Grant

I want to have fun. Life ain’t no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I’m a comedian; I ain’t no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.

– Bernie Mac

I will continue to keep fighting sucking the marrow out of life as life sucks the marrow out of me.

– Craig Sager

All that counts in life is intention.

– Andrea Bocelli

The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.

– Aamir Khan

I moved to San Francisco when I was 20 years old. I couldn’t even drink yet. My friends in college thought I was so stupid for missing out on the four best years of my life. But I was so ready to start living my own life and absorb Silicon Valley culture.

– Brit Morin

My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.

– Alex Grey

In my life, I don’t need to have my face plastered everywhere. It’s not really something I want.

– Alexis Bledel

When you’re 16 or 17, I think like most people that age, the first time you experience certain things in life, whether it’s heartbreak or death or love, obviously it’s going to seem like a much bigger deal.

– Conor Oberst

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