Life Quotes

I can't tell you how Aquinas has enriched and changed my life, my thought. He has helped me to be a better evangelical, a better servant of Christ, and to better defend the faith that was delivered, once for all, to the saints.

~ Norman Geisler

I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I offered my life for hers, and day by day, I watched that beautiful little Angel slip off. So, excuse me for not taking my seat next to you on Sunday in Church, I feel too cheated to worship.

~ Vince Neil

In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.

~ Mike Mccurry

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

~ Jim Rohn

Integrating breakthrough technology into everyday products is always a challenge; at the same time, this is exactly how design makes tech products easily adoptable in life.

~ Yves Behar

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society.

~ Walter Gropius

A person should design the way he makes a living around how he wishes to make a life.

~ Charlie Byrd

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

The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they want to live and how they dream they'll live. That's what I do.

~ Ralph Lauren

When I design and wonder what the point is, I think of someone having a bad time in their life. Maybe they are sad and they wake up and put on something I have made and it makes them feel just a bit better. So, in that sense, fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But only a little.

~ Miuccia Prada

There are two kinds of designers: ones who are very happy locked in their office surrounded by their coterie. The last thing they need to do is to go to a trunk show; they'd go running for the hills. I not only enjoy it, I think, how do you design things that are applicable to life - unless you live it?

~ Michael Kors

You drift through life and let things happen to you, or go by design and say, 'This is what I'm intended to do.'

~ Rick Warren

The most important relationship you have in life is the one you have with yourself. And then after that, I'd say once you have that, it may be hard work, but you can actually design your life.

~ Diane Von Furstenberg

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

~ Jean Cocteau

If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.

~ Steve Wozniak

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.

~ Richard Rogers

Unlike traditional nursing homes, Green House homes provide elders with a high quality of life and quality of care in a setting that feels like a real home. By altering the facility size, interior design, staffing patterns and service-delivery method, the Green House model provides residents better, safer and more personalized care.

~ Risa Lavizzo-Mourey

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.

~ Henry David Thoreau

I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well.

~ Richard Rogers

The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to industrial design and then interior design.

~ Peter Zumthor

I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.

~ Drew Barrymore

All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.

~ Venus Williams

In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.

~ Nancy Gibbs

That's just tragic, that you can spend four years of your life studying the design of three dimensional objects and not make one.

~ Jonathan Ive

The way I design generally is very much travel-oriented because that is my life. That's why I make clothes that are so light and so easy to pack and a little bit seasonless.

~ Diane Von Furstenberg

I really love muscle cars. I don't think people might realize that about me. I really want to go to an auto auction and blow my life savings on a Camaro. They have such design around them, such panache.

~ Alex Guarnaschelli

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

~ Issey Miyake

My design process never starts or finishes. I am always hoping to find something through the mere act of living my daily life. I do not work from a desk and do not have an exact starting point for any collection.

~ Rei Kawakubo

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

~ Michael Shermer

The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable.

~ Mark Helprin

If I design another line, I will definitely design pieces that suit both pregnant and non-pregnant women. Being pregnant is one of the most amazing things, but it is a big change in a woman's life and body, and I think it is important she feels amazing all along her term. And being able to wear beautiful lingerie will definitely help.

~ Julia Restoin Roitfeld

Driven to design by what she refers to as the lack of glamour in the industry, Bar Or creates for the modern woman who is a fashion risk-taker, one who is confident and, perhaps, has a larger than life personality.

~ Aslaug Magnusdottir

Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

~ Kathy Ireland

The only thing Martha and I have in common is that we both used to model. Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live.

~ Kathy Ireland

I am extremely excited to develop and design a brand representative of my life, experiences and style. Working closely with Cherokee will help establish a worldwide presence with best-in-class retailers and category leaders.

~ Alessandra Ambrosio

Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

~ Abraham Verghese

The biggest financial pitfall in life is divorce. And the biggest reason for divorce is marriage.

~ Gene Simmons

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

~ Abraham Maslow

You're not just going out there, maybe sacrificing your own life. There's also sacrifices still going on at home. You can serve in the military and have a good marriage, but you just need to be aware of it so you can take those steps to take care of it.

~ Chris Kyle

Ultimately, I believe the only secret to a happy marriage is choosing the right person. Life is a series of choices, right?

~ Michelle Pfeiffer