He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
Life ain't a drama. And life isn't just a comedy. Life is sometimes horrifying. Life is science-fiction. There are all elements and faculties that we navigate, so I just expect a script to reflect that. As long as it's truthful. I think genre-bending is just being honest.
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.
I just think my life's been really blessed, because being in show business, I've met wonderful people, and I've traveled all over the world.
I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone.
There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.
Schools reward their students for a combination of intelligence, perseverance, and hard work - in the classroom and on the playing fields. But these metrics don't help kids understand that great grades are not a pass for a great life.
My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.
Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
It's a privilege to serve in Washington, D.C., but I never lose sight of what the Lord has called me to do in my life. And that is to be, first a husband, and then a father, and succeed there from His perspective, and He'll take care of everything else.
If Republicans are aiming for the heart, for compassion, the last thing they should do is abandon the sanctity of life. Instead, they should tell Americans that they believe in the dignity and value of every human being, from the defenseless unborn child, to the newborn with a disability, to the 90-year-old dealing with dementia.
My life is very crazy and busy, but I love it that way.
The American middle class's faith in personal comfort as an end in itself is, in essence, a denial of life. And it has been imposed upon American writers and playwrights strongly enough to cut them off from their deeper sources.
I feel like everything I ever did in my life led me to the Franklin Mint.
There are two kinds of cloning right now. One is therapeutic cloning which is for coming up with cures for life threatening, really, really awful diseases. Then there is reproductive cloning, which is to make a human being out of your DNA and a donor egg.
I wanted people to see that I really am a real person. I'm not just some guy who was on a TV show, some guy engulfed in the Hollywood life. I'm just a normal guy when it comes down to it.
'On the Road' completely changed the way I looked at what you could do with your life.
I've spent my whole life in real estate, whether it's in our hotels or looking at the competition, and it's my curse to walk into every room and not be drawn to the flaws and have the little imperfections drive me crazy - because they didn't need to happen.
Private life is private life. Off the pitch, there is private life, and the rest is social life, where of course you have to behave responsibly.
None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.
I've had the same breasts for my entire adult life.
Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.
I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.
Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he has created through his past ways of life, with all those material interests and earthly ambitions.
I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.
All my inspiration comes from life. That's how it never stops, in a way.
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
I think a reason why actors get reputations for being crazy and neurotic is because your life task is constantly in flux.
I got into the movies by accident. When I got an offer, I thought, 'Let's try this, too.' Everything in my life has happened by trial and error. I didn't even think I would win the Miss India title, so where's the question of thinking I'd come this far.
Unlike President Obama, Mitt Romney has been inside the bubble all his life. He has no idea what's going on here. He has no idea how destructive Bush's eight years were to this country.
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.
There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
I count myself fortunate to be able to participate in the life of science in this era.
