Life Quotes

When dealing with American politics, you try to follow the money, and that's where it leads you. It doesn't take you to the electoral college or to Princeton. It takes you down the darker alleys of American life.

~ Roger Morris

I was brought up with a scientific outlook on life. It's the way my father deciphers the world - whether it's football, politics or hairstyles. So I don't get anxious about the future, because I was raised to believe and accept that nothing stays the same, and the best way to survive is to adapt.

~ Anne Wojcicki

People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.

~ Whitfield Diffie

The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.

~ P. J. O'rourke

In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.

~ Tony Blair

I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

~ A. S. Byatt

My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later.

~ Jackie Speier

It's a no-win situation with politics it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.

~ Jordan Peele

Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.

~ George Stephanopoulos

Politics disappears it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.

~ Tatyana Tolstaya

I'm a wise Latina woman. Whatever, man. Thank God I'm not in politics, because the fact that you have to explain everything - I'd kill myself. I can't take all those little things they dissect. I'm like, 'Oh my God, get a life.' I don't have time for this.

~ Justina Machado

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

~ Hubert H. Humphrey

I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun.

~ Charles R. Swindoll

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

~ Jean De La Fontaine

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.

~ Jerry Lewis

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

~ Thomas Jefferson

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

~ Richard Burton

What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.

~ Chelsea Handler

Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

~ Euripides

Here's a news flash: No soldier gives his life. That's not the way it works. Most soldiers who make a conscious decision to place themselves in harm's way do it to protect their buddies. They do it because of the bonds of friendship - and it goes so much deeper than friendship.

~ Eric Massa

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

~ Henry Adams

I'm loyal, and I like my friends. Friendship enriches your life and makes it more interesting.

~ Wendi Deng Murdoch

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

~ Henry David Thoreau

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

~ Joseph Addison

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

~ Samuel Johnson

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

~ Tahar Ben Jelloun

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

~ Simone Weil

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets.

~ Eleanor Robson Belmont

I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.

~ Jessye Norman

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

~ Edward Young

Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

~ James F. Byrnes

The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.

~ Galina Vishnevskaya

Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting of her life, though it is one-sided and ends in tragedy.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

I am deeply spiritual; I revel in those things that make for good - the things that we can do to shed a little light, to help place an oft-dissonant universe back in tune with itself... Long live art, long live friendship, long live the joy of life!

~ Jessye Norman

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

~ George Herbert

In a basic sense, 'A Little Life' is a homage to how my friends and I live our lives. I wanted to push past the definitions of how we typically define friendship. It's a different version of adulthood, but it's no less important and no less legitimate than anyone else's.

~ Hanya Yanagihara

Life is all about the friendship and the love and the music. It sounds silly, but it is. I want to have that experience as much as I can as an adult, not as a kid doing something that people are telling her she has to do. If anyone gets in my way, I'm going to get them out of my way.

~ Fiona Apple

My theme is, 'The spirit of friendship is the balance of life.' Not money. Not the World Series. It's friendship. The relationships I have with people, that's enough to keep me happy.

~ Ernie Banks

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

~ Neale Donald Walsch