It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt. – E. O. Wilson
You see, it’s actually very good that a human activity is performed very close to death, because that’s where life is. Life is, at its most valuable and most full, very close to the boundary of life. – Philippe Petit
You have to establish in your life some sense of prioritizing things, of giving emphasis to the important things and of laying aside the unimportant things that will lead to nothing. – Gordon B. Hinckley
Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like ‘Modern Family,’ but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change. – Eric McCormack
With my daughter, who at the time was one, my domestic life needed to take more precedent and really with my own self I needed to develop quite a bit more. So that put Blur down the list of priorities quite a lot by the time I came to thinking about it. – Graham Coxon
When you join the army, you are asked to lay down your life for your country. That is a tremendous oath to take. In return, a good country should offer that soldier every possible means it can to allow that soldier to stay alive and, upon return, healthy – both mentally and physically. – Michael Winter
If nothing else in life, I want to be true to the things I believe in, and quite simply, to what I’m all about. I know I’d better, because it seems whenever I take a false step or two I feel the consequences. – Peyton Manning
I guess people assume I have some sort of totally magical life, but I’m a working musician, fortunately. I’ve worked on my craft, and I’m very fortunate I’ve been able to survive in a very competitive industry and enjoy my success. It’s not easy. – Debbie Harry
There is no facet of my professional life that doesn’t require or request improvisation. – Marc Evan Jackson
I wake up every morning happy for where I am in life. It’s not all about the cooking, but the fact that I can contribute by using my influence to help people all over the country. In the last two years, my partners and I have fed more than 10 million hungry people by bringing meat to food banks. – Paula Deen
I can’t wait to get on stage, because there you don’t worry about whether you’ll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you’ll ever have another boyfriend again, you don’t worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be. – Florence Welch
A man walks on through life – with the external call ringing in his ears but with no response stirring in his heart, and then suddenly, without any warning, the Spirit taps him on the shoulder. What happens? He turns ’round. The word ‘repentance’ means ‘turning ’round.’ He repents and believes and is saved. – Peter Marshall
Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn’t normal. I didn’t have to go to school, so I didn’t. I was rebellious by nature. I spent my 20s focusing on my company, Flower Films, and producing movies. Now that I’m almost 30, I would like to try other things in lie. I’m crazy about photography, and I want to take an art history class. – Drew Barrymore
Making a movie takes a toll on your life because it’s a commitment, so you put a lot on the back burner. – Michael Eklund
People sometimes tell me that I don’t talk or act or look like a metal fan. Well, what does a metal fan look like? I’ve found people from all walks of life who love metal. – Eddie Trunk
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles. – Doug Larson
You don’t appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed. – Fabrice Muamba
I love movies, but I think people think relationships are supposed to go how they go in movies. The ones I like are the ones that represent life. – Cristin Milioti
Together, Apple and Walmart represent the intense separation of American life into blue and red, rich and poor, overpriced and undersold, hyperconnected and left behind. – George Packer
That was one of the reasons I became a writer – I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life. – Dana Spiotta
This is my life – I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell stories, and tell stories for an audience and everybody. – Dario Argento
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half. – Fyodor Dostoevsky
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn’t care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can’t be a way of life; the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it. – Doris Lessing
The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule. – David Josiah Brewer
Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it. – Dalia Mogahed
I’ve reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death. When I leave, I want to leave to my offspring a clear idea about identity. – Emir Kusturica
If I can’t find real situations that interest me in real life, then I’ll go and write them in play form. – Preston Sturges