But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.
Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.
All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.
People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.
You can't do everything, at the same time, always, and forever. But if you look at your life and your career as a long, winding river, you can get to your destination.
Probably the '86 nationals. That was my first real national title and first real statement I ever made in figure skating, and my life changed after I returned.
Writing is how I metabolize life and how I give and receive.
I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.
I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.
Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.
London was my first Olympics. It was my dream to get there, and I literally had the time of my life.
Some believe that the FBI has these phenomenal capabilities to access any information at any time - that we can get what we want, when we want it, by flipping some sort of switch. It may be true in the movies or on TV. It is simply not the case in real life.
The separation of church and state was meant to protect church from state; a state that declares religion off limits in public life is a state that declares itself supreme over all religious values.
Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.
In the movies, I kill guys with an axe. In real life, I can't control a nine-year-old girl.
I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have.
There was a point where I was making four movies a year. I was always on a set. I had no stories to tell. I was feeling empty. My life was just luggage and hotels and from set to set, from character to character. And one day, I said, 'And where is mine?' You know? And the moment I started to feel that fear, I stopped and I slowed down.
Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.
I find, when you're an optimist, life has a funny way of looking after you.
My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.
For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day.
One can ascend to a higher development only by bringing rhythm and repetition into one's life. Rhythm holds sway in all nature.
Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.
Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.
Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.
I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.
I've been working in boutique hotels my whole life.
Finding the one is not just a feeling, it's an educated guess. I feel like I chose someone to share my life with who is my friend.
At one point in my life, I was very involved with social causes. I'm still involved, but now I have a family and it's important to me.
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.
There are certain things about me that I will never tell to anyone because I am a very private person. But basically, what you see is who I am. I'm independent, I do like to be liked, I do look for the good side of life and people. I'm positive, I'm disciplined, I like my life in order, and I'm neat as a pin.
