- Nov 07, 2020
Life Quotes
Quotes on the meaning found in life.
Life quotes on this page range widely - from lifelong searches for spiritual meaning and questions about religious definitions of sin, to the more ordinary scene of people debating life's big problems over drinks. That range mirrors related pages like Life Status.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still remember with gratitude a series for children on everyday life where we learned about the games children in other times had played and the food they ate.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time ordinary life asserted itself once more, I would feel I had already lived for a while in some other lifetime, that I had even taken over someone else's life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I once knew a house rather like The Land of Smiles - an old house occupied by a varied collection of young people, mainly students. However none of these people were true models for the characters in the book, though their way of life may have been.
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and 'live' with the characters.
- Nov 07, 2020
Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time.
- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.
- Partner
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any MP has to have a proper family life; they have to have support of their partner.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have spent my whole life trying to prove that women can get into politics. I'd now say to them, 'For God's sake don't do it - you'll get slaughtered.'
- Credited
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so invested in ballet, and it was my entire life. And then it was realizing that I didn't want it to be my entire life forever. And then it was this very specific life, and I wanted to learn about other things. So I modeled to fill the time because dancing was very much a job, even when I was 14 years old.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Leftovers' takes place three years after 2% of the population has gone missing. And it's about how that changes society. Cults form as a result, and it drastically changes home life for a lot of people, including the Garvey family, which is the family I belong to.
- Choices
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- Nov 07, 2020
Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020