My own life Quotes · Page 2

... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is…

— Albert Camus

If I would put my talent on the table, if I would control my impulses, if I would make decisions and plans…

— Star Parker

I just look at my own life, which is full of error as all life is. I have done plenty of things…

— Andrew Solomon

How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning,…

— Amy Tan

I always like the physical comedy because I actually do a lot of it in my own life, but not on purpose.…

— Paula Patton

I don't belong to anything, nobody's listening to me and I don't have any levers that control my own life.

— Glenn Beck

You know why I got involved in politics? The government is now a majority partner in my life. I am now a…

— Anthony Scaramucci

I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me, I am dying in my own death and…

— T. S. Eliot

It is in community that we come to see God in the other. It is in community that we see our own…

— Joan D. Chittister

Today, I count myself blessed to have become a photographer. To be able to articulate the experiences of the voiceless, to bring…

— G.M.B. Akash

I'm always identifying some fallacy in my own life. I'm sort of making fun of myself by exploring and unpacking just why…

— Chuck Palahniuk

It's been said that the first hour is the rudder of the day. I've found this to be very true in my…

— Steve Pavlina

Slowly I learn the importance of powerlessness. I experience it in my own life and I live with it in my work.…

— Sheila Cassidy

Since no man ever can, or could, live by himself and for himself alone, the destinies of thousands of other people were…

— Thomas Merton

There are so many beautiful things that are a part of the world, and Ive always looked at life that way; Ive…

— Gloria Estefan

When making a film, I'm never concerned about whether the theme is new or whether it's been done before in cinema or…

— Michael Haneke

I resolve to be more patient, less selfish, cherish my friends, and in my small way help whoever needs help. I cannot…

— Gladys Taber

There is nothing easy about becoming conscious. My own life was much easier before I knew about the deeper meaning of choice,…

— Caroline Myss

You know, how am I leading my own life? What am I denying? Since I brought such great powers of denial into…

— Terry Gross

You know what needs to be done when you're a writer. You know what the job is, particularly if you're an African…

— James McBride

Sometimes when something really works well, it becomes a target, forty years for me, I've been a part, and I've loved every…

— John Travolta

Darren Hardy has written a new bible for the self-improvement space. If you are looking for the real deal-a real program, with…

— David Bach

To know how other people behave takes intelligence, but to know myself takes wisdom. To manage other people's lives takes strength, but…

— John Heider

As an activist, you do find yourself directed more toward public action. But I've always tried to use stories from my own…

— Gloria Steinem

I'm just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I've been through.

— Katy Perry

I can be capable of anything if I allow myself to be. I really realized what an obstacle I was being in…

— Erin Willett

I am in an extended self-directed course of study. That is, I am in control of my own life.

— Amber Benson

I project myself so deeply into the characters in novels that I'm not thinking about my own life.

— Paul Auster

I read Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love Them and I found frightening pieces that related to…my own life.

— Newt Gingrich

Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into other lives, and I come back to my own…

— Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

I found a very diabolical way of making myself suffer - not in the same way [my mother ] was suffering but…

— Gene Wilder

when the time came I would do battle with my mother for the right to sit at the center of my own…

— Twyla Tharp

With most of the events in the books [ Bridget Jones Diaries ] I draw a little bit from my own life…

— Helen Fielding

I have started to say "A quarter of a century" Or "thirty years back" About my own life.

— Philip Larkin

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I…

— David Macaulay

There's a competitive fire inside me. I can't get enough. I live to compete daily in my own life.

— Mike Holloway

Fiction offered me tools that allowed me to approach a wider variety of issues than the events of my own life would.

— Phil Klay

In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue…

— John Travolta

I understood…that in my own life I represented a whole period of American history.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

[Shwing] the really naked stuff I've dealt with in my own life, my own therapy and relationships - for me it just…

— Noah Baumbach