Life Quotes

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.

~ Wade Davis

There comes a time in the life of every nation when it stands at the crossroads of history and must choose which way to go.

~ Lal Bahadur Shastri

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

~ Madame De Stael

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.

~ John Perkins

While we are living in the present, we must celebrate life every day, knowing that we are becoming history with every work, every action, every deed.

~ Mattie Stepanek

I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.

~ Keith O'brien

The moment that changed me for ever was when I had my first seminar with my history professor at the University of Sussex. I realised that history would answer all the questions I had spent my life asking. It was an extraordinary moment.

~ Philippa Gregory

Personally, my interests are ancient history and ancient civilizations. In my own life, I'd like to go to places like Easter Island.

~ Nicolas Cage

If given a chance, I would really want to explore the monuments in Delhi, like Qutub Minar and the forts. I have been there as a child, but now I want to go back and understand the history and significance behind them. We take all of these things for granted in life.

~ Shreya Ghoshal

The travail of freedom and justice is not easy, but nothing serious and important in life is easy. The history of humanity has been a continuing struggle against temptation and tyranny - and very little worthwhile has ever been achieved without pain.

~ Robert Kennedy

My inspiration is always love and history, and my passion to a fault is craftsmanship and responsibility. Those are the simplest things. It goes beyond jewelry. It's every part of my life.

~ Waris Ahluwalia

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

~ Carlos Fuentes

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

~ Ruth Benedict

To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.

~ Polykarp Kusch

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

~ Hilaire Belloc

There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency in which they are paid or by their power to supply the necessaries and comforts of life.

~ Benjamin Harrison

Life, it is true, can be grasped in all its confused futility merely by opening one's eyes and sitting passively, a spectator on the stands of history - but to understand the social processes and conflicts, the interplay between individual and group, even the physicality of human experience, we have need of small-scale models.

~ Will Self

I had a go at changing history - maybe not all by myself - I fought at the battle of Normandy, I slogged through the Ardennes, and I celebrated the liberation of Paris on the streets with beautiful French girls throwing flowers at me. I said good-bye to my first true love and discovered what I really wanted to do with my life.

~ Leroy Neiman

On the day when man told the story of his life to man, history was born.

~ Alfred De Vigny

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

~ Stefan Zweig

Throughout history, story telling was at the very beginning of life.

~ Anthony Horowitz

I have a unique history. There's no way to ever separate what your life would have been like if you had taken a different path. You have to embrace what is yours, and if you don't like it, you have to decide to change it.

~ Eve Plumb

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn't been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

~ Steve Jobs

When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.

~ Malala Yousafzai

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

~ Richard M. Nixon

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

~ Simone Weil

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

~ Henry Adams

I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life.

~ Doris Kearns Goodwin

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

~ Jacques Chirac

You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.

~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning

May you live all the days of your life.

~ Jonathan Swift

That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.

~ Brad Paisley

You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.

~ Pope John Paul Ii

In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City Ballet. My life, to a great extent, had been spent at and with the New York City Ballet, and I decided to try it. It was very scary, writing about something I loved so much and had such strong opinions about.

~ Robert Gottlieb

I loved the domesticity of my life as a struggling actor. When I wasn't going to auditions, I could do things like cook dishes from scratch and take them to parties or be really thoughtful about birthdays and anniversaries.

~ Jenna Fischer

I think you have to be willing to take a bullet for somebody if you're going to stand up there, take your vows, and be married to them for the rest of your life.

~ Blake Shelton

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

~ Sue Townsend

John Glenn's anniversaries have followed me all of my life. I was born in 1962, the year he orbited Earth.

~ Gregory H. Johnson