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All my life.
Take my life, please.
My life is my message.
...best night of my life.
This long disease, my life.
My life upon her faith!
I’m in mourning for my life.
"I've never blithered in my life!"
あとでわかるよ 全ての意味が 今はわからなくても 苦しみも幸せも秘密も だから なげないで抱きしめていこう ずっと It's My Life だから
MY LIFE IS MY DAILY ART
Part of my life is saving life.
MY LIFE DOESN'T FIT IN MY CV
My life is one demd horrid grind.
Life
• Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby (1838-39), Volume II, Chapter XXXII.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Life" (Anonymous, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 440-55.)
I won't change anything in my life.
It's the saddest moment of my life.
The light has gone out of my life.
Theodore Roosevelt
• Entry in Roosevelt's diary, before which he put a large X, on 14 February 1884, the day in which both his mother and wife died within hours of each other.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Theodore Roosevelt" (Quotes, 1880s)
Thou art my life, my way, my light
"My life has been a total waste." http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-11621981-details/I'm+a+street+bum,+says+broke+Tyson/article.do;jsessionid=dZGvFJZGkLvsnbWWXZrVhsZ2kJlny8kkygtqYThr5ZL2nyWzmSjJ!-686754952
"I don't do anything. My life sucks." http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Sports/2004/12/22/mike_tyson_my_life_sucks/8085/
I love a broad margin to my life.
My life is brillant, My love is pure.
My life for you! MY LIFE FOR YOU!!
Fictional last words in literature
• Who: Andrew Quick, Alias The Tick-Tock Man
• Source: The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
• Note: Character had been nearly mortally injured in Book III by Jake, but rescued by Randall Flagg, to whom this devotion was referencing. He charges Roland and his ka-tet at Flagg's command, but is easily gunned down.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fictional last words in literature" (E-K, Stephen King works, The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass)
'''Shouka... I will give you my life force."
You traitor! I dedicated my life to you!
Calvin: Reality continues to ruin my life.
  p67
Life and death have been lacking in my life.
Jorge Luis Borges
• Prologue
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jorge Luis Borges" (Quotes: In these selections the quotes from a story or essay are listed among the earliest collections which are known to contain it., Discussion (1932): Discusión (1932))
My honor is dearer to me than my life.
"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons"
It was the most enthralling episode in my life
All my life I've learned to suffer in silence.
I want to make a poem of my life.
Yukio Mishima
• As quoted by Mishima's biographer, Henry Scott-Stokes in the documentary Yukio Mishima : Samurai Writer (1985)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Yukio Mishima" (Sourced)
Music is my life -- acting's just a hobby.
Sleepless, Twenty-four hours of searching Searching for my life
My life is like a stroll upon the beach.
Life
• Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Life" (Anonymous, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 440-55.)
Dr. Martin Ellingham:-(To the dog)Get out of my life!
The ease of my burdens, the staff of my life.
My life is as if you've hit me with it.
God did not give me my life to throw away.
My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.
Moving to Turkey was the turning point in my life.
Extra Ordinary: My life as NUMBER 7 by Vanya Hargreeves
The Umbrella Academy
• Title of book written by Vanya

Vanya: [answers sleepily] "Hello?"
The Conductor: "You know your father is dead, right?"
Vanya: [sits up, alert] "Who is this?"
The Conductor: "I suppose I didn't expect you to be broken up...you wrote a lot of nasty things about your family in that book of yours."
Vanya: [looking out the blinds suspiciously] "What do you want?"
The Conductor: "I'm conducting a suite--the first of it's kind. It appears my chair for first violin has been rendered...vacant. I'd like you to audition."
Vanya: "And why would I do that?"
The Conductor: "Revenge. Be at the Icarus theater at noon tomorrow." [hangs up]
• Source: Wikiquote: "The Umbrella Academy" (The Day The Eiffel Tower Went Berserk)
Sorry, but I won’t just hand over my life’s work.
My life lies in those eyes which have me slain.
Eyes
• William Drummond of Hawthornden, Sonnet XXIX, line 14.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Eyes" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 246-50.)
So that my life be brave, what though not long?
Life
• William Drummond of Hawthornden, Sonnet.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Life" (Anonymous, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 440-55.)
Ma vie est un combat. My life is a struggle.
Life
• Voltaire, Le Fanatisme, II. 4.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Life" (Anonymous, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 440-55.)
I love you for making the difference in my life.
Thiago Silva will extend my life as a central defender.
All my life I have had a certain idea of France.
Charles de Gaulle
Toute ma vie, je me suis fait une certaine idée de la France.
• Opening sentence of his Mémoires de guerre.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Charles de Gaulle" (Sourced, Most famous)
Hurrah for anarchy! This is the happiest moment of my life.
You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.
I never saw so many shocking bad hats in my life.
Sometimes it feels like my life is just one long day.
John Mayer
• On rediscovering his huge collection of Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan posters he had as a teenager
• Mayer, John (October 4, 2007). "Proof" Honeyee.com. Retrieved September 4, 2007
• Source: Wikiquote: "John Mayer" (Sourced, On himself)
It is education that has altered my life. Carried me far.
I don't think you're a waste of space...You saved my life.
For Beatrice--When we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended
Why should I give someone else such power over my life?
Ben Carson
• p. 59
• Source: Wikiquote: "Ben Carson" (Quotes, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story (1990): Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story, Review & Herald Pub., ISBN 0-8280-0669-5)
I certainly don't think of my life as a fairy tale.
Grace Kelly
• Kelly (1956) as cited in Editors of People Magazine (2007) The Royals: Their Lives, Loves and Secrets. p. 62
• Source: Wikiquote: "Grace Kelly" (Quotes)
It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.
When I was twenty, I chose my life. It wasn't this one.
I've been called Bone all my life, but my name's Ruth Anne.
My brother! You are my brother for the rest of my life!
Muammar Gaddafi
• Gaddafi expressing his gratitude to Nicolae Ceauşescu after recieving a Romanian translation of the Koran, quoted in Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief (1987) by Ion Mihai Pacepa, p. 101
• Source: Wikiquote: "Muammar Gaddafi" (Quotes)
My life’s work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.
He's a genius...a classical dancer like I never saw in my life.
I'm not gonna live my life on one side of an ampersand.
Dovewing: Tigerheart can't be part of my life... but Bumblestripe could be.
What luck I had to meet Morell. He has saved my life.
Naples is the flower of paradise. The last adventure of my life.
Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.
I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over.
Politics is a form of evil. The greatest mistake of my life.
Politics
• Spanish: La política es una forma de la maldad. El mayor error que he cometido en mi vida.
• Mario Vargas Llosa
• Source: Wikiquote: "Politics" (Dictatorships, totalitarianism, and tyranny)
I am a revolutionary; my life is dedicated to freeing the people.
Mengistu Haile Mariam
• As quoted in David A. Korn (1986) Ethiopia, the United States and the Soviet Union, Southern Illinois University Press, page 61
• Source: Wikiquote: "Mengistu Haile Mariam" (Sourced)
So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life.
Job 7:15
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The Book of Job; Common Book Name: Job; Chapter: 7; Verse: 15.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men:
Psalms 26:9
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The Book of Psalms; Common Book Name: Psalms; Chapter: 26; Verse: 9.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
I'd rather offer my life as a sacrifice than be necessary to anything.
My choice is the old world — my choice, my need, my life.
I don't think there will be a woman Prime Minister in my lifetime.
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Michel de Montaigne
• Source: Wikiquote: "Michel de Montaigne" (Attributed: Most quotations of Montaigne come from the Essais but the following have not yet been given definite citation. )
I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
My life may not be something special But it's never been lived before.
Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
• Paraphrased variant: Everything that I did in life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.
Earl Warren
• As quoted in Do It : Let's Get Off Our Buts (1992) by Peter John Roger McWilliams
  • As quoted in Compact Fruit Tree (2002) Vol. 35-38, by International Dwarf Fruit Tree Association, p. 32
• Source: Wikiquote: "Earl Warren" (Quotes)
Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.
I went to Ithaca, found the Grateful Dead and my life was changed.
Those days in the woods saved my life many a time in combat.
Chesty Puller
• Recalling his early days trapping muskrats before school to supplement his mother's income
The Savage Wars of Peace, Max Boot, 2002.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Chesty Puller" (Sourced)
The birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.
"I love you," I whispered. "You are my life now," he answered simply.
I don't plan on being Mr. Tippet for the rest of my life.
Last words in 24 media
• Who: Jonas Hodges
• Notes: Said in regards to his new identity in the Witness Protection Program. He is then put in a van, which soon explodes.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Last words in 24 media" (Quotes)
My life is lived, and I have played The part that Fortune gave.
The most difficult element is perhaps the lack of privacy in my life.
My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.
Strange as it may seem, my life is based on a true story.
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
Why should I worry about dying? It's not going to happen in my lifetime!
With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my Art.
And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
"My four years at Berkley represent two of the happiest weeks of my life."
I ain't a communist necessarily, but I been in the red all my life.
These thoughts form not only the foundation of my work, but of my life.
my unhealthy timidity might be a great obstacle to me in my life.
The purpose of my life is to put off dying as long as possible.
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
I'm alright. I love you. I love my life. I'm always close to you.
I suffer with you. I've never seen such stupid ballplaying in all my life!
My lovely living boy, My hope, my hap, my love, my life, my joy.
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii. Compare: "My fair son! My life, my joy, my food, my all the world", William Shakespeare, King John, act iii. sc. 4.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas" (Sourced, La Seconde Semaine (1584): La Seconde Semaine (Roughly translated: The Second Week) (1584).)
Amidst all of these flashing lights I pray The Fame wont take my life.
All my life l have sought the essence of flight. Flight — what bliss'
Before i knew the best part of my life had come ,it had gone....
O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
Job 7:7
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The Book of Job; Common Book Name: Job; Chapter: 7; Verse: 7.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
I only made one mistake in my life; that's when I thought I was wrong.
I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless.
Misattributed to Albert Camus
• Attributed to Camus on social media, this sentence was taken from the Wikipedia article on Camus: "In Le Mythe, dualism becomes a paradox: we value our own lives in spite of our mortality and in spite of the universe's silence. While we can live with a dualism (I can accept periods of unhappiness, because I know I will also experience happiness to come), we cannot live with the paradox (I think my life is of great importance, but I also think it is meaningless)." Retrieved 16 July 2015, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus#Ideas_on_the_absurd
• Source: Wikiquote: "Albert Camus" (Misattributed)
He is dreadfully married. "He's the most married man I ever saw in my life."
I don't think there is a need for an entity like God in my life.
I am so tired of rearranging my life around what the stupidest people might do.
I, for one, have never in my life come across a perfectly healthy human being.
Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.
In a fast German car I'm amazed that I survived An airbag saved my life
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie
Pierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 162
• Source: Wikiquote: "Marie Curie" (Quotes)
I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.
I suppose I am politically ruined, but that day was the happiest of my life.
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure and pleasure my business.
Aaron Burr
Letter to Pichon, reported in Marshall Brown, Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar (1899), p. 67.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Aaron Burr" (Sourced)
My life's a cup of sugar I borrowed before time began and forgot to return.
Grant me grace, O God! that I My life may mend, sith I must die.
Robert Southwell
• Line 53; p. 138.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Robert Southwell" (Sourced: Quotations are cited from William B. Turnbull (ed.) The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell (London: John Russell Smith, 1856)., Upon the Image of Death)
And I been waitin' all my life And I been havin' big dreams times twice
Thank you so much. I never in my life thought I would be up here.
The purpose of my life is to try out the ideas I have for it.
Sorry my life is so much more bitchin' than yours. I planned it this way.
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
Pleasure
• Aaron Burr, Letter to Pichon.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Pleasure" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 600-02.)
Now that I've let go of my story, I can let go of my life.
For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
Psalms 88:3
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The Book of Psalms; Common Book Name: Psalms; Chapter: 88; Verse: 3.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
Lamentations 3:53
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The Lamentations of Jeremiah; Common Book Name: Lamentations; Chapter: 3; Verse: 53.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
Lamentations 3:58
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The Lamentations of Jeremiah; Common Book Name: Lamentations; Chapter: 3; Verse: 58.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Oscar Wilde
• J’ai mis tout mon génie dans ma vie; je n’ai mis que mon talent dans mes œuvres.
• Conversation with André Gide in Algiers, quoted in letter by Gide to his mother (30 January 1895); popularized by Gide and often subsequently quoted in Gide’s later work and in "Gide, André (1869-1951)" at Standing Ovations ; the conversation was again recalled in Gide’s journal of (3 July 1913), quoted in “André Gide’s ‘Hommage à Oscar Wilde’ or ‘The Tale of Judas’”, Victoria Reid (University of Glasgow, UK), Chapter 5 in Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe, edited by Stefano Evangelista (8 July 2010) part of a Continuum series The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe, ISBN 978-1-84706005-1, pp. 98–99, also footnote 6 (p. 99), quoting 1996 edition of Gide’s journal, pp. 746–47]
• Source: Wikiquote: "Oscar Wilde" (Quotes)
I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
Elvis Presley changed my life. He was like nothing on Earth: nothing in my world anyway.
My life is slowed up by thought and the need to understand what I am living.
If my life is of no value to my friends it is of none to myself.
Joseph Smith, Jr.
History of the Church 6:549
• Smith's reply when friends accused him of cowardice for intending to leave Illinois for the Rocky Mountains to avoid injust legal prosecution.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Joseph Smith, Jr." (Sourced, Death and last words)
For once in my life I have someone who needs me, Someone I needed so long.
The only thing I really ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my life. Drawing.
Charles M. Schulz
• Address to the Sonoma County Press Club as quoted in the Sonoma County Press Democrat (13 February 2000)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Charles M. Schulz" (Sourced)
The most exciting moment of my life was appearing on the same stage as Little Richard.
About Little Richard
• Keith Richards, p. 120.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Little Richard" (Quotes about Little Richard, The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Authorized Biography (2003): White, Charles (2003), The Life and Times of Little Richard: The Authorized Biography. Omnibus Press.)
The drumbeat of the electrical transportation is accelerating like nothing I've ever seen in my life.
The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.
Everyone said how tormented directors can be. I've never enjoyed something so much in my life!
I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire.
Fred Astaire
Rita Hayworth in Hallowell, John. "Rita Hayworth: Don't Put the Blame on Me, Boys." New York Times October 25, 1970, sec. 2, pp. 15,38 (M).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fred Astaire" (Dance partners on Astaire)
Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.
Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my life.
The rest of my life belongs to my culture, my language, my God and my nation.
I did not spittel a drop of blood, or steal a cent in all my life.
I'm so tired of pretending my life isn't perfect and bitching and just winning every second.
Unkindness may do much; And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.
If you are normal, I intend to be a freak for the rest of my life
Vivian Stanshall
• My Pink Half of the Drainpipe
• Source: Wikiquote: "Vivian Stanshall" (Quotes, My Pink Half of the Drainpipe: Song on "The Doughnut In Granny's Greenhouse" LP)
The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee.
“All my life,” I said, “knowledge has come to me for which I was not ready.”
Tanith Lee
• Book Three, Part III “Inside the Hollow Star”, Chapter 1 (p. 379)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Tanith Lee" (Quotes, The Birthgrave (1975): All page numbers from the first edition published by Daw Books )
I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.
Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.
Job 9:21
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The Book of Job; Common Book Name: Job; Chapter: 9; Verse: 21.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
Wherefore do I take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in mine hand?
Job 13:14
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The Book of Job; Common Book Name: Job; Chapter: 13; Verse: 14.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Ernest Hemingway
• Letter (9 April 1945); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
• Source: Wikiquote: "Ernest Hemingway" (Quotes)
Only three things in my life I've really liked to do - hunt, write and make love.
I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.
Bob Dylan
• On the influence of Jack Kerouac on him, as quoted Grasping for the Wind : The Search for Meaning in the 20th Century (2001) by John W. Whitehead
• Source: Wikiquote: "Bob Dylan" (Quotes)
I am a Marxist-Leninist, and I will be a Marxist-Leninist until the last days of my life.
• Variant translation: I am a Marxist-Leninist and will be one until the day I die.
I love my profession. I would never stop. Relax? I relax when I work. It's my life.
I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison.
I've seen these women all my life, I know how they walk, I know how they talk...
Lily Tomlin
• Response after being asked how she felt playing a heterosexual in Nashville, on her album Modern Scream (1975)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Lily Tomlin" (Quotes)
I'm starting a new chapter in my life, and you have no idea how much that means.
For most of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.
I need a lullaby a kiss goodnight angel sweet love of my life o, I need this
Such a lonely day / And it's mine / The most loneliest day of my life. (sic)
Friend to my life, which did not you prolong, The world had wanted many an idle song.
A very special thanks to all the women that have cum in and out of my life.
But it is not time for me to die; I have not yet finished my life's work.
The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.
My life is like a stroll upon the beach, As near the ocean's edge as I can go.
Henry David Thoreau
The Fisher's Boy, Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900
• Source: Wikiquote: "Henry David Thoreau" (Quotes, General sources)
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
Kissing Agathon, I held my life on my lips. It wanted to pass over, poor thing, into him.
I anticipated witnessing in my lifetime the disappearance of our species. But the Gods have been against me.
I spit on my life. Death in battle would be better for me than that I, defeated, survive.
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
Thus would I double my life's fading space; For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
Abraham Cowley
Discourse xi, Of Myself, stanza xi; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "For he lives twice who can at once employ / The present well, and ev'n the past enjoy", Alexander Pope, Imitation of Martial.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Abraham Cowley" (Sourced)
"I’m just trying to change my life because I’m not above killing any drug dealer for money." http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-12-tyson-retire-talk_x.htm
All my life's a circle; Sunrise and sundown; Moon rolls thru the nighttime; Till the daybreak comes around.
Garfield: Hey, Jon, what's new?
Jon: My life stinks.
Garfield: I said what's NEW?
(2 Aug 1993) http://garfield.com/comics/comics_archives_strip.html?1993-ga930802
In my life Why do I smile At people who I'd much rather kick in the eye ?
My high school friends have begun to suspect I haven't told them the full story of my life.
I have made a fiasco of my life, but I have had the right material to work with.
I have found it to be true that the older I've become the better my life has become.
Misattributed to Doris Lessing
• Rush Limbaugh, as quoted in Old Age Is Always 15 Years Older Than I Am (2001) by Randy Voorhees
• Source: Wikiquote: "Doris Lessing" (Misattributed)
This president goes into office with more expectations than any president I can ever remember in my lifetime.-2008
Nancy Pelosi
• Dan Reed (November 6, 2008 1B), Obama Has Much to Do Before Even Taking Office work: USA Today, retrieved: 2008-11-08
• Source: Wikiquote: "Nancy Pelosi" (Sourced)
Basketball has been my life and I worked at it so hard because I enjoyed it so much.
I have wedded the cause of human improvement, staked on it my fortune, my reputation and my life.
Some people might say my life is in a rut, but I'm quite happy with what I've got.
I am proud that I have devoted all my life to the struggle for the triumph of Leninism.
In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.
I take the greatest lesson from compassion — it takes away all the conceit out of my life.
I never knew any man in my life, who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.
Misfortune
• Alexander Pope. See Jonathan Swift's Thoughts on Various Subjects.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Misfortune" (Sourced, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 518-19.)
I gave my life for freedom—This I know; For those who bade me fight had told me so.
Freedom
• W. N. Ewer, Five Souls.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Freedom" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 294-96.)
Kissing Agathon, I held my life on my lips. It wanted to pass over, poor thing, into him.
‘Tell me something about your life, ‘he said. ‘My life?’ the rickshaw-wallah asked. ‘I do not have one.’
If there was been any success in my life that was built on the unshakable foundation of failure…
I am determined to defend my rights and maintain my freedom or sell my life in the attempt.
Nathanael Greene
• As quoted in Conflict of conviction: a reappraisal of Quaker involvement in the American Revolution (1990), by William C. Kashatus, p. 45.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Nathanael Greene" (Quotes)
Facing up to the Nazis and the powers of the Nazi state coloured my life as an artist.
Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
John 10:17
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The Gospel According to St. John; Common Book Name: John; Chapter: 10; Verse: 17.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
My life has been the poem I would have writ,
But I could not both live and utter it.
All my life I've been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
Sydney Smith
• p. 257. Let us swear an eternal friendship. Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. The Rovers.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Sydney Smith" (Quotes, Lady Holland's Memoir (1855))
All my life, I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.
I purchased a gun when I was a young man. I've been a hunter pretty much all my life.
"I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos." http://www.details.com/culture-trends/news-and-politics/201008/interview-boxing-mike-tyson
What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.
I have never played against anybody like that in my life and I was pleased to be taken off."
The first twenty years of my life were wasted...I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.
Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life; Dear as these eyes, that weep in fondness o’er thee.
Arnold: You want to be a part of my life, I'm not editing out the parts you don't like.
I’m deeply grateful to be Jewish. I feel it’s enriched my life and I feel very strongly about Jewishness.
My life is great because I made it that way. Anything other than happiness doesn't get a pass key.
Love is meant for husbands, but my love for Hitler is stronger, I would give my life for it.
It was a boy. It was who took it. I never saw it again. I swear on my life.
Last words in Harry Potter media
• Who: Gregorovitch
• Source: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1
• Note: Character is confronted by Voldemort, who demands to know where the Elder Wand is. Gregorovitch speaks this line, to which Voldemort responds, "I believe you" and kills him with Avada Kedavra.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Last words in Harry Potter media" (Films)
During my lifetime, America has been constantly waging war against much of humanity: impoverished people mostly, in stricken places.
The resurrection gives my life meaning and direction and the opportunity to start over no matter what my circumstances.
For mine own part, I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours.
The unconventional and uninhibited way of living was a part of my life. I won't be like that now.
All my life my mother has told me I'm hard to shop for. She can't find the bacon aisle!
We listened and looked sideways up! Fear at my heart, as at a cup, My life-blood seemed to sip!
I've been in trouble most of my life. No stealing or anything like that, just fights. It's all fights.
The sands are number'd that make up my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end.
What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?
Job 6:11
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The Book of Job; Common Book Name: Job; Chapter: 6; Verse: 11.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.
I should stop ruining my life searching for answers I'm never gonna get, and just enjoy it while it lasts.
Sex and death. Two things that come but once in my lifetime, but at least after death you're not nauseous.
Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see a mountain in my life.
I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.
Sir, my life, drab and insipid though it may seem to others, is the only life given me to live.
I spent all of my life trying to stay away from sports and here I am in a sporting arena.
My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I see a pattern.
All my life's a circle;
But I can't tell you why;
Season's spinning round again;
The years keep rollin' by.
Those have been the two biggest challenges of my life: trying to follow Radiohead, and trying to follow Brad Pitt.
Chris Martin
• Alluding to his marriage to Gwyneth Paltrow
• Scaggs, Austin; Corbijn, Anton (2005-08-25), "COLDPLAY'S QUIET STORM". Rolling Stone. (981):40-46.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Chris Martin" (Sourced)
I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been.
Boyfriends? In my life I have had three. Three. Only a handful of people have seen into the Pharaoh's tomb.
Can we begin again? Save it for another friend, I was happy in my life I won’t pretend. ~ "EZ"
Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life.
[Reed Richards: But I swear to you that I will spend the rest of my life forgetting you] Think again.
I said, ''''The years with change advance: If I make dark my countenance, I shut my life from happier chance.'''
My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.
I have to respect my life, and free expression is part of my life. I can never really silence myself.
Death stares at me/ Death pushes me forward/ Attracts me onwards/ And carries me on/ And that is my life!
Across my life only one word will be written: "waste" - waste of love, waste of talent, waste of enterprise.
Violet Trefusis
• Author: Mitchell A. Leaska, Violet to Vita: The Letters of Violet Trefusis to Vita Sackville-West, 1910-1921, published in (1990), pg.242
• Source: Wikiquote: "Violet Trefusis" (Quotes)
Sometimes I don’t know if my life is complicated, or if it’s that I just think too much about things.
I adore the concept of being in love with one guy and spending the rest of my life with him.
All my life I have worked to change concepts, and that begins with how people see and understand the problems.
Lionel Messi. Oh… I think this guy is fantastic. He’s the best player I have ever seen in my life.
As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
John 10:15
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The Gospel According to St. John; Common Book Name: John; Chapter: 10; Verse: 15.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake.
John 13:37
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The Gospel According to St. John; Common Book Name: John; Chapter: 13; Verse: 37.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
I've bought more music for my Ipod in one year than I bought in the last ten years of my life.
At least half of my life’s many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.
The man who has impacted and influenced my thinking and my theology and my life more than any other living person
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Four shots ripped into my groin and I was off on the greatest adventure of my life!
The only things in my life that compatibly exist with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
I'll tell everyone that the children are my reason for living, when in reality my life is their reason for living.
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.
Everything in my life is planned. It adds stability, but it makes me yearn for something that's not planned, that's spontaneous.
Winning the IBF title was the greatest night of my life. To give it up outside the ring is truly painful.
Early detection has saved my life twice. I will continue to battle and lend my voice in any way I can.
“One of the best players I've ever seen in my life! Spectacular on training! Playing with him was a joy!.” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/manchester-united/8547825/Manchester-Uniteds-Paul-Scholes-lauded-by-players-and-coaches-around-the-world-after-announcing-retirement.html
"My ancestors were Brahmins. They spent their lives in search of god. I am spending my life in search of man."
Jesus, my life is Thine, And ever more shall be Hidden in Thee, For nothing can untwine Thy life from mine.
Frances Ridley Havergal
• P. 610.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Frances Ridley Havergal" (Sourced, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895): Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).)
"I was more influenced by ''Barça'''s philosophy than by any other coach. They were four years of my life absolutely fundamental."
If things do go badly, will I wonder for the rest of my life what I might have done to help?
Ben Carson
• p. 20
• Source: Wikiquote: "Ben Carson" (Quotes, Take The Risk (2008): Take The Risk, Rewiew and Herald, pubblishing Association. ISBN 0-8280-0561-3)
It seems like 'Hollywood' to you because you've never served. What I’ve done in my life, you see in the movies.
My parents wrote their own rules, so it didn’t seem odd to me to invent my life as I went along.
Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
Romans 11:3
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans; Common Book Name: Romans; Chapter: 11; Verse: 3.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.
I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.
I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.
And KDC you were much too young And you changed my life But I draw the line at suicide. Here's to Life!
No straight lines make up my life; And all my roads have bends; There's no clear-cut beginnings; And so far no dead-ends.
I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.
I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.
Frida Kahlo
• Quoted in "Imagen de Frida Kahlo" by Gisèle Freund in Novedades (Mexico City) (10 June 1951)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Frida Kahlo" (Sourced)
If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife, and a different religion.
I have never passed a more anxious or trying month in my life, but I never felt God so present with me.
James Hudson Taylor
• (A.J. Broomhall. Hudson Taylor and China’s Open Century, Book Two: Over the Treaty Wall. London: Hodder and Stoughton and Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1982, 192).
• Source: Wikiquote: "James Hudson Taylor" (Quotes)
Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn’t break and that the enemy’s did.
Then Richard Parker, companion of my torment, awful, fierce thing that kept me alive, moved forward and disappeared forever from my life.
Yann Martel
• Chapter 94, p. 316
• Source: Wikiquote: "Yann Martel" (Quotes, Life of Pi (2001): Unless otherwise noted, page numbers refer to the 2002 edition from Toronto: Vintage Canada. ISBN 0-676-97377-9)
My life's purpose is to write poetry — but behind the poetry must be the vision of a fresh revelation for men.
William Soutar
• Diary, 29th August 1932.
• Quotation posted with the permission of the National Scottish Library, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Source: Wikiquote: "William Soutar" (Sourced)
Corazon Vda. De Berenguer: I have had enough weak men in my life and I don't want another one for a son!
I was born under a lucky star, and I have nothing whatsoever to regret. I wouldn’t change a thing about my life.
Living or dying, Lord, I ask but to be Thine; My life in Thee, Thy life in me, Makes heaven forever mine.
Consecration
• Henry Harbaugh, p. 160.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Consecration" (Sourced, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895): Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).)
On Thee alone my hope relies, Beneath Thy cross I fall; My Lord! my Life! my Sacrifice! My Saviour! and my All!
Anne Steele
• Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 82.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Anne Steele" (Sourced)
So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't.
Next to the discovery of the Turkana boy, the visit to Lascaux ranks as one of the great moments of my life.
Messi is the best player I’ve seen in my life. Not just better but much better. Much faster. Much, much more skilful.
And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
Genesis 32:30
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The First Book of Moses, called Genesis; Common Book Name: Genesis; Chapter: 32; Verse: 30.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
There are places I remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
Hammer Horror, Hammer Horror, Won't leave me alone. The first time in my life, I leave the lights on To ease my soul.
All my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them.
• Unsourced variant: All of my life, I have been fascinated by the big questions that face us, and have tried to find scientific answers to them. Perhaps that is why I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex. This quote seems to combine the above sentence from Stephen Hawking's Universe with a statement from the Foreword to The Illustrated Brief History of Time: As Nathan Myhrvold of Microsoft (a former post-doc of mine) remarked: I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.
I have never been in Africa in my life, so you can put that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr. Busybody Holmes!
So have I loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best.
There's a line in the picture where he snarls, "Nobody tells me what to do." That's exactly how I've felt all my life.
Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando, Portraits and Film Stills 1946-1995 (1996) Speaking about the film The Wild One (1953).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Marlon Brando" (Quotes)
If I had been a Heathen, I'd have crowned Neaera's curls, And filled my life with love affairs, My house with dancing girls.
The greatest theatre that I experienced in my life was The Living Theatre and they were Off-Off-Broadway. And that was in the fifties.
I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.
All my life I was very deprived, I ain't had a woman in years, and my palms are too hairy to hide (Whoops!).
My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? … my art gives meaning to my life.
It is the one event in my life of which I am most ashamed and I have long feared would be made public.
If you love me true And if you love me true I'll spend my life with you And Timer You're a jigsaw, Timer
Daine: "I thought they'd killed you. I lost my temper." Numair: "Magelet, that is the greatest understatement I've ever heard in my life."
The most important thing in my life, its leitmotif, has been the constant and close contacts with working people, with workers and peasants.
Leonid Brezhnev
• As quoted in Sputnik : Digest (1967), p. 48
• Source: Wikiquote: "Leonid Brezhnev" (Sourced: Communists have always viewed the national question through the prism of the class struggle, believing that its solution has to be subordinated to the interests of the Revolution, to the interests of socialism. That is why Communists and all fighters for socialism believe that the main aspect of the national question is unification of the working people, regardless of their national origin, in the common struggle against every type of oppression, and for a new social system which rules out exploitation of the working people.)
Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing...because music is everything.
You've made my life so glamorous, You can't blame me for feeling amorous. 'S wonderful, 's marvellous That you should care for me.
May I borrow your wheelbarrow? — I didn't lay down my life in World War II so that you could borrow my wheelbarrow
Adrian Mitchell
• "Ten Ways to Avoid Lending Your Wheelbarrow to Anybody", from Adrian Mitchell's Greatest Hits (1991).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Adrian Mitchell" (Sourced)
There has never been any division between my life and my work.Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972: Marisa Merz, retrieved: 17 January 2010
My life is far too precious and my mission too important to allow either to be chaotically diluted by a lack of order.
Thus let me hold thee to my heart, And every care resign: And we shall never, never part, My life—my all that's mine!
Love
• Oliver Goldsmith, The Hermit, Stanza 39.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Love" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 464-84.)
If I could start my life all over again . . . you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler.
Too much going on, never in my life thought that I'd had to worry about anything of this sort, rather than my mehendi!
I spent the first ten years of my life in Germany, the following ten in Paris, the following ten between Argentine and Uruguay.
Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou shalt be in safeguard.
1 Samuel 22:23
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The First Book of Samuel, otherwise called the First Book of the Kings; Common Book Name: 1 Samuel; Chapter: 22; Verse: 23.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Job 10:1
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The Book of Job; Common Book Name: Job; Chapter: 10; Verse: 1.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
Therefore now, O LORD, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
Jonah 4:3
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: Jonah; Common Book Name: Jonah; Chapter: 4; Verse: 3.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
All my life I've known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?
In my lifetime all our problems have come from mainland Europe and all the solutions have come from the English-speaking nations across the world.
Old man look at my life, Twenty four And there's so much more Live alone in a paradise That makes me think of two.
I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children!
I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples — faraway peoples — so that Americans might better understand themselves.
Margaret Mead
• Cited in: Justin Wintle (2002) Makers of Modern Culture. Vol. 1, p. 350
• Source: Wikiquote: "Margaret Mead" (Quotes, 1970s, Blackberry Winter, 1972: Source: Margaret Mead (1972) Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years. Autobiography)
I'll plead no more! I see now your spirit twists around the single error of my life, and I will never tear it free!
I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone — and this is my biggest satisfaction.
Roman Polański
• Source: Wikiquote: "Roman Polański" (Sourced, Polanski : His Life and Films (1982): Quotes of Polanski from Polanski : His Life and Films (1982) by Barbara Leaming)
All that stuff with the tabloids is a kind of luxury tax I pay for all the good things I do in my life.
If I could only have one food for the rest of my life? That's easy. PEZ. Cherry flavor PEZ. There's no doubt about it.
I spent this time polishing up the software/hardware documentation, renaming registers to be more meaningful. This was actually time well spent in my life.
It have been one of the richest experiences of my life...feeling that I was being really useful to the boys on the other side.
World War I
• Unidentified actress about working in a war factory. From an excerpt in Adriane Ruggiero, American Voices from World War I (2003), p. 79–80, citing Norma B. Kastl, "Wartime, the Place and the Girl", Independent magazine (unidentified issue).
• Source: Wikiquote: "World War I" (Quotes: Alphabetized by author )
You know this moment in time Is all my life Every day is each day that's passed Every person alive is everyone's who's died
Jimi Hendrix changed my life. Each generation influences the following one and as a consequence brings it back to the past. (L'Express newspaper 2000)
If one perpetually thinks of me, and makes me his sole refuge, I become his debtor and will give my life to save him.
I don't care what people think. This is my life. I know who I am. I stood up for my rights and my life.
It was long ago in my life as a simple reporter that I decided that facts must never get in the way of truth.
I try to really understand every aspect of the most high; for me, the most high is Allah... I live my life by Islam.
I wish sometimes that I just didn't have to think about any of this, and could drone away my life. It would be easier.
Let the sweet hope that Thou art mine, My life and death attend; Thy presence through my journey shine, And crown my journey's end.
Anne Steele
• Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 328. "The Grace of God". Adopted as a hymn by several protestant denominations, sometimes under a different title. Probably first published pseudonymously as " Theodosia" in Poems on Subjects Chiefly Devotional (1760).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Anne Steele" (Sourced)
I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.
Immortality
• George MacDonald, Mary Marston, Chapter LVII.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Immortality" (Sourced, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 388-90.)
I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logical reasons can be found.
Love
• John Forbes Nash (portrayed by Russell Crowe, A Beautiful Mind (2001).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Love" (N)
I cannot say that I have been hindered all my life by the permutation of genes that resulted in me being born a woman.
"This is what I've learned, in my life: Headbanging is crucial. Growing up is hard to do. There's nothing wrong with wearing a dress."
Andy Griffith His pursuit of excellence and the joy he took in creating served generations & shaped my life I'm forever grateful RIP Andy.
The day I joined this Israeli and Arabs youth movement, my life began to get complicated. Suddenly it was no longer black and white.
This day I breathed first: time is come round, And where I did begin there shall I end; My life is run his compass.
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.
Psalms 31:10
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The Book of Psalms; Common Book Name: Psalms; Chapter: 31; Verse: 10.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Hear my voice, O God, in my prayer: preserve my life from fear of the enemy.
Psalms 64:1
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The Book of Psalms; Common Book Name: Psalms; Chapter: 64; Verse: 1.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
I go to scale the Future's possibilities! Farewell!
God bless thee, bride of my life's dawn, Where'er I be, to nobler deed thou'lt wake me.
I have grown up with guns all my life, but people who like assault weapons they should join the United States Army, we have them.
He's been the moving force behind my life and the life of my family. For us he is God almighty and therefore we are pained.
About Sathya Sai Baba
• Sunil Gavaskar, Former Cricketer (As quoted in Hindustan Times, April 25, 2011 and http://my.news.yahoo.com/gavaskar-condoles-death-sri-sathya-sai-baba-140600257.html)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Sathya Sai Baba" (Quotes about Sathya Sai Baba)
I'm happier than the morning sun, And that's the way you said that it would be, If I should ever bring you inside my life.
I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.
I think my reputation is something that I'll probably try to spend the rest of my life living it down and it probably won't work.
For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I believed in merger and unity of the two territories.
Lee Kuan Yew
• August 9, 1965, when Lee announced the separation of Singapore from Malaysia, as quoted in The Theatre and the State in Singapore: Orthodoxy and Resistance, Terence Chong
• Source: Wikiquote: "Lee Kuan Yew" (Quotes, 1960s)
All my life, I thought I was a Conservative. Now I know that I have never been one. The scales have dropped from my eyes.
No use to fall down on my knees
and beg for mercy's sake.
Nothing I counted mine, out of my life,
is mine to take...
Anna Akhmatova
• Source: Wikiquote: "Anna Akhmatova" (Quotes: There have been numerous translations of Akhmatova's poems into English, with some variation in the titles of poems or their sections. The date of publication of her later works is often many years or decades after their composition. , Requiem; 1935-1940 (1963; 1987): Written over many years, this work was first published in 1963, but not in complete form until 1987. The base translation used here is that of Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward, with variant translations used as noted. , 9)
"She's a woman worth falling in love with. Worth spending the rest of my life for. I have finally found the true essence of culture!"
Deep in the secret chambers of my heart I muse my life-long hate, and without flinch I bear it nobly as I live my part.
When my life is through And the angels ask me to recall The thrill of them all Then I shall tell them I remember you
To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.
Warren Farrell
• p. 183.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Warren Farrell" (Sourced, Interview by Jonathan Robinson (1994): From Jonathan Robinson, Bridges to Heaven: How Well-Known Seekers Define and Deepen their Connection With God (Walpole, NH: Stillpoint, 1994), a collection of interviews of various 'Seekers'.)
I could study all my life and not think up half the amount of funny things they can think of in one Session of Congress.
It was clear that if I didn't spend the rest of my life concentrating on string theory, I would simply be missing my life's calling.
I had devoted too much of my life to this utterly irrational game. I would chuck the whole thing and take to Strindberg for amusement.
I am a proud Korean – a proud "Moonie" – and a dedicated anti-Communist and I intend to remain so the rest of my life.
Bo Hi Pak
Inquisition: The Persecution and Prosecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, by Carlton Sherwood, 1991, Regnery Gateway, page 558, isbn 9780895265326
• Source: Wikiquote: "Bo Hi Pak" (Sourced)
O lord! my boy, my Arthur, my fair son! My life, my joy, my food, my all the world! My widow-comfort, and my sorrow's cure!
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, That she, whom all my life I'd loved, should be another's wife.
Jealousy
• H. G. Bell, The Uncle. Written for and recited by Henry Irving.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jealousy" (Sourced, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 403-04.)
I have a room whereinto no one enters Save I myself alone: There sits a blessed memory on a throne, * There my life centres.
Memory
• Christina G. Rossetti, Memory, Part II.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Memory" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 506-09.)
Ironic, isn't it? That I, your greatest enemy kept you safe from harm. But now you've taken my life...and in the process, ended your own!
Last words in Assassin's Creed series games
• Who: Robert de Sable
• Notes: Altair was ordered to assassinate Robert de Sable, Grand Master of the Knights Templar and the mastermind of their plans. Robert de Sable had convinced Richard to make an alliance with Saladin in order to destroy the assassins and Altair was sent to stop him. After a duel with Robert, Altair stabbed him. Robert, dying, told him hat his master Al Mualim, Grand Master of the Assassins, was secretly a member of the Templars as well and he had only used Altair as a pawn to get rid of the other Templars so he could use the power of Piece of Eden to rule the Holy Lands alone.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Last words in Assassin's Creed series games" (Quotes, Assassin's Creed)
The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my Autobiography.
I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.
I sensed I was about to take one of the most important risks of my life. But I felt so right that I didn't hesitate.
Ben Carson
• p. 92
• Source: Wikiquote: "Ben Carson" (Quotes, Take The Risk (2008): Take The Risk, Rewiew and Herald, pubblishing Association. ISBN 0-8280-0561-3)
Who have for my life laid down their own necks: unto whom not only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
Romans 16:4
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans; Common Book Name: Romans; Chapter: 16; Verse: 4.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
'Up there!'. Wonderful words! All my life has been dominated by these antagonisms: high and low. In my childhood I tried desperately to be high up.
You know, I've been around the ruling class all my life, and I've been quite aware of their total contempt for the people of the country.
If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
Henry James
• Said to Hamlin Garland in 1906 and quoted by Garland in Roadside Meetings (1930; reprinted by Kessinger Publishing, 2005, ISBN 1-417-90788-6), ch. XXXVI: Henry James at Rye (p. 461).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Henry James" (Quotes)
You are the sunshine of my life, That's why I'll always be around, You are the apple of my eye, Forever you'll stay in my heart.
My life was in crisis. All my values were becoming meaningless. I was discovering that my chosen profession was empty, foolish, as useless as—as playing chess.
I've been looking for a woman to save my life Not to beg or to borrow A woman with the feeling of losing once or twice.
In my life, I have driven some crappy vehicles. But I have never been so desperate for a vehicle that I wanted a used rental car.
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
I don't hear that many current records that really change my life... I've found it in Jeff Buckley, and I find it in Björk on occasion.
About Jeff Buckley
Daniel Lanois – Music Producer, from ("Listen to This!: Leading Musicians Recommend Their Favorite Recordings" by In Alan Reder and John Baxterís)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jeff Buckley" (About Jeff Buckley, Sourced)
It was the lowest point of my life. I just kept thinking, 'What have I done to deserve this?' I didn't see the point in living.
I am single and desperately looking for a good man in my life. I did have major crushes when I was younger but no serious relationship.
See, Majesty? See your traitor’s needle? Do you think that I who've given my life to the service of the Atreides would give them less now?
Fictional last words in literature
• Who: Thufir Hawat
• Source: Dune
• Notes: Character has been commanded to kill Paul, but says the first sentence to the Emperor before committing suicide by stabbing himself with an extremely poisonous gom jabbar, which he had apparently been ordered to use on Paul.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fictional last words in literature" (A-F, Dune series)
I had as many ideas as I have now, only I did not know how to choose from among them those that belonged to my life.
I have never started a fight in my life but I have finished a few... sometimes I shudder when I think about what I have done.
All hail the conquering hero. My best friend betrayed me, so I shot him. Distracted by a kiss, I let the love of my life die.
Dartmouth is the place I’ve devoted my life to, so it’s very sad to see this kind of decline in the intellectual strength of the institution.
If I've learned anything in my life, it's that God has the habit of asking you to do the very thing you think you can't do.
I never in my life Did hear a challenge urg'd more modestly, Unless a brother should a brother dare To gentle exercise and proof of arms.
Challenge
• William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (c. 1597), Act V, scene 2, line 52.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Challenge" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 92.)
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
I do not set my life at a pin's fee; And, for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?
Mother and father abandoned me at birth and the author of my life also did not write any worth or merit on the page of destiny.
Tulsidas
• His confessional statements on his own experiences made in Kavitavali quoted in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p. 49
• Source: Wikiquote: "Tulsidas" (Quotes)
So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.
In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
One of the principles that I've tried to live my life on, sometimes successfully, sometimes not as successfully, is 'to whom much is given much is required'.
I did not direct my life. I didn’t design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That’s what life is.
B. F. Skinner
• As quoted in "Unpacking the Skinner Box : Revisiting B. F. Skinner through a Postformal Lens" by Dana Salter in The Praeger Handbook of Education and Psychology Vol. 4 (2008) edited by Joe L. Kincheloe and Raymond A. Horn, Ch. 99, p. 872.
• Source: Wikiquote: "B. F. Skinner" (Quotes)
I was never so amazed in my life as when the Sniffer drew his concealed weapon from its case and struck me to the ground, stone dead.
No one of the rocks seems to call me now, nor any of the distant mountains. Surely this Merced and Tuolumne chapter of my life is done.
There is no more embarrassing thing in my life that the fact that I have actually uttered the phrase, "I would like to order the Ginsu Knife."
I have learned yet again (this has been going on all my life) what folly it is to take any thing for granted without examining it skeptically.
I have never felt this before in my life. I could measure my childhood 2 now on an mj growth chart. if this is true.The last legend.
About Michael Jackson
• Pete Wentz, on his Twitter page (26 June 2009)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Michael Jackson" (Quotes about Jackson: Listed alphabetically by author, Remarks made after his death)
I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.
"These are the ugliest people I have ever seen in my life. I have to buy this!" When looking at the back of Metallica's Kill 'Em All.
My talent lies in the expression of my life and creative power through light, colour and form. As a painter I can convey the essence of life.
László Moholy-Nagy
Art of the 20th century, Part 1 by Karl Ruhrberg, Klaus Honnef, Manfred Schneckenburger, Ingo F. Walther, Christiane Fricke (2000) p. 178.
• Source: Wikiquote: "László Moholy-Nagy" (Sourced)
My dream has come true. I play with the great players and on a great team. I'm smiling and happy and enjoying the time of my life.
Sometimes I have a feeling, when I look back on my life, that all I’ve been through has prepared me perfectly for just what I’m doing now.
Warren Farrell
• p. 163.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Warren Farrell" (Sourced, Interview by Jonathan Robinson (1994): From Jonathan Robinson, Bridges to Heaven: How Well-Known Seekers Define and Deepen their Connection With God (Walpole, NH: Stillpoint, 1994), a collection of interviews of various 'Seekers'.)
This is a really important time in my life. I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy.
If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player. And you damn well better belive I'd be a Pittsburgh Steeler.
One of the problems with fame … is they try to pigeonhole you… like I’m stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.
My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shade of evening close Is scatter'd on the ground to die.
Life
• Claimed by Patrick O'Kelly. The Simile. Pub. 1824. Authorship doubted. The lines appeared in a Philadelphia paper about 1815–16, attributed to Richard Henry Wilde.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Life" (Anonymous, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 440-55.)
Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.
Life
• Adelaide Anne Procter, Dream-Life.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Life" (Anonymous, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 440-55.)
Surely goodness and loyal love will pursue me all the days of my life, And I will dwell in the house of Jehovah for all my days.
Love
• David, Psalms 23:6, NWT
• Source: Wikiquote: "Love" (D: [[File:Barabas-galambposta.jpg|thumb|200px| A song fluttered down in the form of a dove, And it bore me a message, the one word—Love! The Dove by Paul Laurence Dunbar]])
To look straight into the eyes of my death/ My non-being/ To face myself as living and dying/ In the bare nakedness of my life and non-life.
I never had any hesitation or regrets in this sense. My life has been enriched by excellent human relations, work and interests. I have never felt lonely.
Let us face the truth: why should I feel guilty for being alive? Why should I sacrifice my life in order to prove that I am strong?
Her father lov'd me; oft invited me; Still question'd me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes, That I have pass'd.
Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; yea, let him tread down my life upon the earth, and lay mine honour in the dust. Selah.
Psalms 7:5
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The Book of Psalms; Common Book Name: Psalms; Chapter: 7; Verse: 5.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while they took counsel together against me, they devised to take away my life.
Psalms 31:13
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The Book of Psalms; Common Book Name: Psalms; Chapter: 31; Verse: 13.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
Psalms 38:12
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The Book of Psalms; Common Book Name: Psalms; Chapter: 38; Verse: 12.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
Probably I am very naive, but I also think I prefer to remain so, at least for the time being and perhaps for the rest of my life.
He knows less about the budget than any president in my lifetime. He can't even carry on a conversation about the budget. It's an absolute and utter disgrace.
About Ronald Reagan
• House Speaker Tip O'Neill, http://www.quickchange.com/reagan/1981.html
• Source: Wikiquote: "Ronald Reagan" (Quotes about Reagan: Alphabetized by author)
A person seeing (visiting) my grave deserves my intercession. And a person who visits me after my death is like a person who visited me during my lifetime.
Maybe if I could bear my life as it is for one day, for one hour, for one minute, I could forget my wish to be something else.
I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
• Variant: I have wandered all my life, and I have traveled; the difference between the two is this — we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Hilaire Belloc
• As quoted in Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia (1962) edited by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 829
  • As quoted in Traveling for Her: An Inspirational Guide (2008) by Amber Israelsen, p. 2
• Source: Wikiquote: "Hilaire Belloc" (Quotes)
I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.
My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt.
I wish I got to tell him how much his music existence changed my life. He was my biggest inspiration and will forever live on in my heart.
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
An orange on the table Your robe on the carpet And you in my bed Sweet present of the present Coolness of the night Warmth of my life.
When that half-burnt log and those cinders were alight she was alive! Little has been changed here yet. I can do nothing. My life creeps like a snail.
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead
• Source: Wikiquote: "Tallulah Bankhead" (Quotes, Tallulah: My Autobiography (2004): Tallulah: My Autobiography. University Press of Mississippi; illustrated edition edition (July 7, 2004))
I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me, is less reasonable and less attractive.
I used to say that I spent half my life breaking bones on the rugby field, then the other half putting them back together in the operating theatre.
I've had a lot of unhappiness in my life — and a lot of happiness. Who doesn't? Maybe I've learned enough to be able to guide my daughters.
My love, There's only you in my life The only thing that's right. My first love, (yeah) You're every breath that I take You're every step I make.
I thank God for all the people whom God sent into my life, the people who gave their best so that I could learn to give my best.
The Oscar is definitely the biggest moment in my life. I know he has won so many awards. But this one is special because he is representing India.
I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.
“I haven’t organized my life as a narrative, you know. I’m not sure you’ll understand.” “As listeners, we are not required to understand,” said Qiingi. “Only to care.”
And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
Genesis 48:15
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The First Book of Moses, called Genesis; Common Book Name: Genesis; Chapter: 48; Verse: 15.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
He said unto me again, Stand, I pray thee, upon me, and slay me: for anguish is come upon me, because my life is yet whole in me.
2 Samuel 1:9
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The Second Book of Samuel, otherwise called the Second Book of the Kings; Common Book Name: 2 Samuel; Chapter: 1; Verse: 9.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
I have spent most of my life as a Democrat. I recently have seen fit to follow another course. I believe that the issues confronting us cross party lines.
Ronald Reagan
• Source: Wikiquote: "Ronald Reagan" (Quotes, Pre-presidency, A Time for Choosing (1964): A Time for Choosing (27 October 1964) This was a televised speech in support of the presidential campaign of Senator Barry Goldwater; often referred to as "The Speech" which launched Reagan's career as a politician. Reagan gave other versions of this speech throughout the country, at various points during the Goldwater campaign.)
One disgust, then another - to the point of losing the use of speech and even of the mind...The greatest exploit of my life is to be still alive.
I have only one real enemy in my life that I know about, and that is John Houseman. Everything begins and ends with that hostility behind the mandarin benevolence.
Orson Welles
• Quoted by Richard Meryman in Mank: The Wit, World, and Life of Herman Mankiewicz. New York: Morrow, 1978, page 255.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Orson Welles" (Quotes)
Wasting our time? This is a waste of time, to live in peace and plenty with my wife and children? May I waste the rest of my life, then.
In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.
"Ethan, there has to be more to my life than this." "Why can't you just be happy as a shallow cartoon glyph of a human like everybody else here?"
So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.
My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover . . . God's love in yours.
Racing, competing, is in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I've been doing it all my life. And it stands up before anything else.
I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge, or just decide to take my life.
I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.
Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.
My life is like a music-hall, Where, in the impotence of rage, Chained by enchantment to my stall, I see myself upon the stage Dance to amuse a music-hall.
My lifestyle changed when this wonderful person came into my life. I couldn't sleep for years. All of a sudden, I don't know why or how, but I slept.
We have unfinished business between us, G'Kar. Let us make an end of it quickly, before it stops me. I am as tired of my life as you are.
Fictional last words in live-action television series
• Who: Londo Mollari
• Note: Stated just before he and G'Kar choke each other to death, fulfilling a dream he'd had for over 20 years. "It" is a creature that has Londo under its partial control, but is sleeping at the moment.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Fictional last words in live-action television series" (A-L, Babylon 5)
It was January and snowing like crazy. It was tough; the food was terrible. Eighteen months of my life for nothing? I thought my own dreams were more important.
I put my life in danger and came here because I feel this country is in danger. People are worried. We will bring the country out of this crisis.
Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.
Life
• Michel de Montaigne, Essays, On Repentance, Book III, Chapter II.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Life" (Anonymous, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 440-55.)
The Baroness was like Jesus Christ and Shakespeare all rolled into one and perhaps she was the most influential person to me in the early part of my life.
When I reflect upon my life, I can clearly see how my passion for running has dominated my life. The images that flash through my mind are those running....running…running…
And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?
1 Samuel 18:18
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The First Book of Samuel, otherwise called the First Book of the Kings; Common Book Name: 1 Samuel; Chapter: 18; Verse: 18.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
Psalms 42:8
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The Book of Psalms; Common Book Name: Psalms; Chapter: 42; Verse: 8.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
"Enlarge my life with multitude of days!" In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays: Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
Calvin: Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in...But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.
  p.140
I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.
It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
Mahatma Gandhi
• Introduction
• Source: Wikiquote: "Mahatma Gandhi" (Quotes, 1920s, An Autobiography (1927): An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth (1927) These should eventually have citation by translation, edition, and section or page numbers)
I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterwards at home.
"I've only had one dream in my life with kids in it that didn't involve me gnawing my feet off, and it had to do with kids doing my laundry."
Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.
Karen Blixen
• As quoted in Journey Through Womanhood: Meditations from Our Collective Soul (2002) by Tian Dayton
• Source: Wikiquote: "Karen Blixen" (Quotes)
I learned a long time ago that I can't live my life for everybody else. We learn and we grow from our mistakes, and we get older and more mature.
Me, as myself, I don't think I'm particularly funny. But I've noticed that people in my life always have found me amusing. Which, when I was little, really bothered me.
I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?
He was going into a theatre, meeting face to face those who were coming out, and being asked why, "This," he said, "is what I practise doing all my life."
I killed nobody that didn't deserve killing. In all of these here killings there was no alternative. You couldn't call them cold-blooded killings.... It was either my life or theirs.
In my life I've been through plenty. when I was three years old, my parents got a dog. I was jealous of the dog, so they got rid of me.
If they made a film of my life, I think they should get George Clooney to play me. He's a fantastic actor and my wife thinks he would be ideal.
I gave you my arms, my lips, my heart, My love, my life, my all, But the best that I had to offer you I found was all too small.
Just once in my life a man tried to embrace me. It was horrible! He had big boots, a heavy belt, huge gloves. Faugh! Oh, let's not talk about men.
My God is none other than the people. Only the popular masses are omniscient and omnipotent and almighty on earth. Therefore my lifetime motto is: "The people are my God."
Kim Il-sung
• Comment to Cheondoist independence activist Kim In Jin (1936), described in autobiography With the Century (1993)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Kim Il-sung" (Sourced)
"Enlarge my life with multitude of days!" In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays: Hides from himself its state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe.
Life
• Samuel Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes, line 255.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Life" (Anonymous, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 440-55.)
People say having kids is life changing, well that doesn't necessarily mean a good thing, does it? I could take one of my legs off. That would change my life.
Behold, there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two captains of the former fifties with their fifties: therefore let my life now be precious in thy sight.
2 Kings 1:14
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The Second Book of the Kings, commonly called the Fourth Book of the Kings; Common Book Name: 2 Kings; Chapter: 1; Verse: 14.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
A Psalm of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalms 27:1
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The Book of Psalms; Common Book Name: Psalms; Chapter: 27; Verse: 1.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
Nursed amid her [London's] noise, her crowds, her beloved smoke, what have I been doing all my life, if I have not lent out my heart with usury to such scenes?
I hastened to quench a thirst that had been burning a hole in the mixed metaphor of my life ever since I had fondled a quite different Dolly thirteen years earlier.
And so I am an American and I have lived half my life in Paris, not the half that made me but the half in which I made what I made.
"If I hadn't have had music in my life, it's quite possible I could be in here. Or nor even in here, be dead — and I'd much rather be alive."
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good or evil, has been done freely; I am a free agent.
Giacomo Casanova
• Source: Wikiquote: "Giacomo Casanova" (Quotes, Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (1894): This work exists in two French editions and translations: The "Laforgue edition" (1826-1838), heavily rewritten and censored: translated as Memoirs of J. Casanova de Seingalt (trans. Machen 1894) and The "Brockhaus-Plon edition" (1960-1962), the original text translated as History of My Life (trans. Trask 1967), and as the digest The Story of My Life (trans. Sartarelli/Hawkes 2001), 500pg of excerpts from the 4000pg text. These quotes are primarily from the Full text online as translated by Arthur Machen in 1894, with additional material discovered by Arthur Symons. This was translated from the heavily rewritten and censored edition established by Jean Laforgue, the only version available until the original French text was published in 1960. )
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to live the width of it as well.
There thou wilt show me That which my soul desired; And there Thou wilt give at once, O Thou, my life! That which Thou gavest me the other day. ~ 38
I’m looking for a hard-headed woman, One who will make me do my best, And if I find my hard-headed woman, I know the rest of my life will be blessed
I am not going to dictate to you what you write about my life and work. I only ask that you not make me out to be a 'whiner and sentimentalist.'
Music is 99% of my life. But I know I need a break. Besides, if you give people too much, they start to not want it. We need to restrain ourselves.
Old man... everyone... and Luffy... I know all my life, I've been worthless, and I know that I have this demon's blood flowing through me... but... thank you for loving me!
My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time.
If Virginia stands by the old Union, so will I. But if she secedes,... then I will follow my native state with my sword and, if need be, with my life.
American Civil War
• U.S. Army Colonel Robert E. Lee, before Virginia joined the Confederacy (1861).
• Source: Wikiquote: "American Civil War" (The War Begins: The Confederacy attacks Fort Sumter (12 April 1861), The Confederacy responds to their starting the Civil War)
And they didn't desert me at all. Instead, they did something for me that would make my transformations not only bearable, but the best times of my life. They became Animagi.
``Her songs are a part of my life, from Começar de Novo (Malu Mulher). I like to watch her on the stage. She transmits security, but is also strong and sweet.´´
Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan.
I'm drowning in debts up to my ears.
I'll have to pay for myself
with my self,
give up my life for my life.
Wisława Szymborska
• "Nothing's a Gift"
• Source: Wikiquote: "Wisława Szymborska" (Quotes, Poems New and Collected (1998): Translated by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh, Harcourt Inc., ISBN 0-15-601146-8, The End and the Beginning (1993))
It's frightening and glamorous and exciting at the same time. I wouldn't change it for anything! After the bad and sad times in my life, it's something I want to do.
I've made some strides in trying to understand myself, I think. And I think that in my life I'm less afraid of being thought a coward than I used to be.
You are the sun, You are the rain That makes my life this foolish game. You need to know I love you so. And I'd do it all again and again.
I desired to live worthily as long as I lived, and to leave after my life, to the men who should come after me, the memory of me in good works.
I thank Providence and my Creator, not for saving my life, but for making it possible for me to endure my cares and pursue the task which my conscience commands me.
People, I am the son of the people. I pledge before God that I will sacrifice myself for your sake. I shall offer my life in defence of the Iraqi people.
Abd al-Karim Qasim
• August 5, 1958, as quoted in Dr Lorenzo Kimball (1972) The Changing of Political Power in Iraq, 1958 to 1971.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Abd al-Karim Qasim" (Quotes)
If I had my life to live over again, I would elect to be a trader of goods rather than a student of science. I think barter is a noble thing.
O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds.
For the enemy hath persecuted my soul; he hath smitten my life down to the ground; he hath made me to dwell in darkness, as those that have been long dead.
Psalms 143:3
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: The Book of Psalms; Common Book Name: Psalms; Chapter: 143; Verse: 3.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee, And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?
In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the TEX project is that software is hard. It’s harder than anything else I’ve ever had to do.
I have fought my fight, I have lived my life, I have drunk my share of wine; From Trier to Köln there was never a knight Had a merrier life than mine.
It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now! Was it worth what I paid?
I've had a great time in South America and South Africa. Indeed it now seems that on this pair of wild hot continents I've enjoyed the most fruitful year of my life.
John Muir
• letter to William Colby (4 February 1912); published in "John Muir — President of the Sierra Club", by William E. Colby, Sierra Club Bulletin, volume 10, number 1 (John Muir Memorial Issue, January 1916) pages 2-7 (at page 6); and in John Muir's Last Journey, edited by Michael P. Branch (Island Press, 2001), page 160
• Source: Wikiquote: "John Muir" (Quotes, 1910s)
"My life's not tragic at all. How many guys do you know who are bankrupt and just bought a $3 million house and are getting ready to get $6 million more?" http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-02-tyson-saraceno_x.htm
I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going to write the songs that people can't write for themselves.
Finally, my life was a story. My days would no longer feel like a video game that resets to zero every time I wake up, and then begs for coins. (p. 143)
If I abandon this project I would be a man without dreams and I don't want to live like that: I live my life or I end my life with this project.
Sometimes I love [acting] but then sometimes I think it's too much for me. And I don't know if it is something that I could do for the rest of my life.
I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.
Al Capone
• As quoted in How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) by Dale Carnegie, p. 26
• Source: Wikiquote: "Al Capone" (Quotes)
I've just sort of gone with the flow and I ended up here. Crazy. I'm not going to start planning anything, my life is way better than anybody could have planned it.
I keep some portion of my early gleam; Brokenly bright, like moonbeams on a river, It lights my life, a far illusive dream, Moves as I move, and leads me on forever.
The whole history of my life, and in essence the whole history of the working class consists of this: that we have lived and fought under the leadership of Lenin and Stalin.
Farewell the hope that mocked, farewell despair That went before me still and made the pace. The earth is full of graves, and mine was there Before my life began; my resting-place.
But this was no dream, and, unlike the nightmare, I wasn't running for my life; I was racing to save something infinitely more precious. My own life meant little to me today.
I am one of those fortune people who have seen Bradman and Tendulkar bat in my lifetime and in my opinion Tendulkar is the best batsman I have seen in my life.
At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could’ve taken. I don’t think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder...
Heero: Who...Who are...My Enemies? My enemies are the ones after my life...My enemies are the ones that are after my life and the ones that toy with my life...They're all my enemies.
Enemies
• Gundam Wing The Eternal Flame of the Shooting Stars written by Hajime Yatate, Rika Takahashi, Yoshiyuki Tomino and Katsuyuki Sumisawa
• Source: Wikiquote: "Enemies" (Quotes, Enemies from within)
Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing, Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing; Wed or cease to woo.
Courtship
• Thomas Campbell, The Maid's Remonstrance.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Courtship" (Sourced, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 898-902.)
I have fought my fight, I have lived my life, I have drunk my share of wine; From Trier to Coln there was never a knight Led a merrier life than mine.
Life
• Charles Kingsley, The Knight's Leap. Similar lines appear under the picture of Franz Hals, The Laughing Cavalier.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Life" (Anonymous, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 440-55.)
In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!
If you wanna play it like a game, well, come one, come on, let's play. Cause I'd rather waste my life pretending; than have to forget you for one whole minute ...
I want to kill Grandma? It’s not respectful to say someone wants to kill Grandma when I spent sixteen years of my life putting my life on the line to protect Grandma.
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.
Jonah 2:6
• King James Version of the Bible originally published in 1611. Full KJV Authorized Book Name: Jonah; Common Book Name: Jonah; Chapter: 2; Verse: 6.
• The data for the years individual books were written is according to Dating the Bible on Wikipedia.
I made one great mistake in my life—when I signed that letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made; but there was some justification—the danger that the Germans would make them!
Albert Einstein
• Written by Linus Pauling in his diary after a conversation with Einstein (16 November 1954). Quoted in The New Quotable Einstein by Alice Calaprice (2005), p. 175. Calaprice writes that the quote was copied directly from Pauling's diary.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Albert Einstein" (Quotes, Attributed in posthumous publications: Posthumous quotes can be particularly problematic, especially where earlier sources are not cited at all. )
All my life, I have lived with the feeling that I have been kept from my true place. If the expression "metaphysical exile" had no meaning, my existence alone would afford it one.
The work of Carl Sagan has been a profound influence in my life, and the life of every individual who recognizes the importance of humanity's ongoing commitment to the exploration of our universe.
(On his Catholic faith): "Certainly it has been the rock on which I have always been able to rely in good times and in bad, and it is the lodestone of my life."
I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life.
"Would to God, brethren, I could tell you WHO I am! Would to God I could tell you WHAT I know! But you would call it blasphemy and want to take my life!
For once in my life I won’t let sorrow hurt me, Not like it’s hurt me before, oh For once I have something I know won't desert me ‘Cause I’m not alone anymore.
Music is my life and my life is music. Anyone who does not understand this is not worthy of God. (London, Henry Colburn, 1826; digitized 2006), 2nd ed., vol. I (p. 225) http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00439352&id=ph3XEMzGt5YC&pg=RA2-PA225&lpg=RA2-PA225&dq=%22Melody+is+the+essence+of+music%22&hl=en
"I was always being asked, 'Boss, did you have a good run?' To which I would snarl, 'Hell, I've been running most of my life, and I haven't had a good run yet.'"
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do so, would I?
I respect a lot of players in this league. But to me basketball is just a little aspect of my life. I enjoy the game because it's fun. But it is a game.
Hakeem Olajuwon
Slam dunk - interview with basketball player Hakeem Olajuwon - Interview, Feb, 1994 by Spike Lee.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Hakeem Olajuwon" (Sourced Quotes)
The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.
Jane Goodall
• Referring to the chimpanzees, reported in Connie Jankowski, Jane Goodall: Primatologist and Animal Activist (2009), p. 13.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Jane Goodall" (Sourced)
My ambition has always been to reduce a building’s support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life’s work.
I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness.
Still, what I want in my life is to be willing to be dazzled — to cast aside the weight of facts and maybe even to float a little above this difficult world.
(To Kagura Mikazuchi) "This life was entrusted to me by Simon... by grandpa Rob... and my comrades... Relinquishing my life so easily would be a slap in the face to all of them."
A Voice:
Help! Save me! I can see you, though you cannot see me. I am like a mouse in the claws of a cat; my life is not worth a minute's purchase.
I have, all my life long, been lying till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.
I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.
I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die! I think there be six Richmonds in the field; Five have I slain to-day instead of him.
"Eh bien, Mademoiselle, all through my life I have observed one thing — 'All one wants one gets!' Who knows?" His face screwed itself up comically. "You may get more than you bargain for."
The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.
Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
About Samuel Beckett
• Source: Wikiquote: "Samuel Beckett" (Quotes, The Unnamable (1954), Act II: Vladimir: (sententious.) To every man his little cross. (He sighs.) Till he dies. (Afterthought.) And is forgotten. Vladimir: Let us not waste our time in idle discourse! (Pause. Vehemently.) Let us do something while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed. Not indeed that we personally are needed. Others would meet the case equally well, if not better. To all mankind they were addressed, those cries for help still ringing in our ears! But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for once the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us! Estragon: (aphoristic for once). We are all born mad. Some remain so. Pozzo: I woke up one fine day as blind as Fortune. (Pause.) Sometimes I wonder if I'm not still asleep. Pozzo: The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too. Pozzo: (suddenly furious). Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? (Calmer.) They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more. Vladimir: Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? Probably. But in all that what truth will there be? (Estragon, having struggled with his boots in vain, is dozing off again. Vladimir looks at him.) He'll know nothing. He'll tell me about the blows he received and I'll give him a carrot. (Pause.) Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. (He listens.) But habit is a great deadener. (He looks again at Estragon.) At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep on. (Pause.) I can't go on! (Pause.) What have I said? Estragon: I can't go on like this.
Vladimir: That's what you think. Vladimir: We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?)
I have never seen a task of such magnitude performed by a man... I have seen a great many soldiers in my lifetime and you, Sir, are the finest soldier I have ever known.
Roger doesn't have the right at present to tell me what to do with my life, although he believes that he does. And he'll not ruin my career, although lately he's been trying to.
For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get tired of singing it. It never gets old for me.
...I simply don’t want the poems mixed up with my life or opinions or picture or any other regrettable concomitants. I look like a bear and live in a cave; but you should worry.
Randall Jarrell
• of not wanting to write a preface for his first volume of verse, The Rage for the Lost Penny (1940); “A Note on Poetry”, p. 47
• Source: Wikiquote: "Randall Jarrell" (Quotes, Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980): Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981, ISBN 0-374-51668-5)
You're always waiting on the tide, It's time you decide. I've walked down long roads that seem to have no end at all. You never wanted time to end, To let my life offend.
I defie the Pope and all his lawes. If God spare my life, ere many yeares I wyl cause a boy that driveth the plough to know more of the Scripture, than he doust.
• As quoted in the Actes and Monuments of these Latter and Perillous Days, touching Matters of the Church (Foxe's Book of Martyrs) by John Foxe; variant: I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the scripture than thou doest.
There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, — light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
John Constable
• Quoted in C. R. Leslie, Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, Composed Chiefly of His Letters (1843), (Phaidon, London, 1951), p. 280
• Reply "to a lady who, looking at an engraving of a house, called it an ugly thing"

• Source: Wikiquote: "John Constable" (QUOTES, Other)
I'm sorry. At least you have someone waiting for you. Marian. The love of my life. She was always yours. I lived in shame... but because of you... I die proud. I am free.
I spent my life learning to feel less. Every day I felt less. Is that growing old? Or is it something worse? You can not protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
I wish to take notice that if there has ever been any contradiction in my life, it is at this moment, and do I appear excited? Am I very irritable? Can I control myself?
I gave you my life, you gave me my life.
Like a gush of wind in my hair.

Why do we forget what's been said
And play the game of life with our hearts?
Yoko Ono
• "Walking On Thin Ice" on Season of Glass (1981).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Yoko Ono" (Quotes: [[File:Yokoono.JPG|thumb|right| John and I felt that we were like people in an H. G. Wells story. Two people who are walking so fast that nobody else can see them.]])
"You're not leaving me here alone," I say. Because if he dies, I'll never go home, not really. I'll spend the rest of my life in this arena trying to think my way out.
I don't want my life to be defined by what is etched on a tombstone. I want it to be defined in what is etched in the lives and hearts of those I've touched.
Bessie: I've been lucky to have so much love in my life. Lee: Yes, Marvin and Ruth love you so much. Bessie: No, I’ve been lucky to be able to love them so much.
The fast of Lent, culminating in Good Friday, is an important part of my life as … God, principally through fasting, but also through prayer, Bible study, alms-giving, and attending special [[w:Church services|church services.
And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?