A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.
I've never made a film that I didn't believe in, you know? However the picture turns out, I've always given everything to it. That's kind of how I approach life. I can't help it. There's no part-way with me on anything in any area of my life.
I love KIND bars. My favorites are coconut and almond and the dark chocolate and sea salt because staying fueled helps keep me from getting sick or injured. Bananas have also made a great comeback in my life. My kids eat them all the time on the go, which has inspired my go-to pre-run morning meal of peanut butter and banana on toast.
I am a very deep person. I run very deep in real life.
The country life near Manchester I really love.
The life you're leading is the sexiest part of you.
Our increasing ability to alter our biology and open up the processes of life is now fueling a new cultural war.
I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with.
Individual courage is the only interesting thing in life.
I've certainly had periods when I felt like life was winning and I was losing, so I think everybody can relate to that quandary - the temptation to give in, to give up, and then what It takes to keep going.
My parents were in the book business, my brothers still run the Dutton bookstores in Los Angeles, and I've been interested in editing books and journals all of my life.
Whether it's soundtracking a moment in my life or just motivating me to hit the gym, I constantly have music playing. Even if it's just in my head.
The truth about love is that you don't always fall in love with whom you are supposed to fall in love with. Love just hits you. It is a transcendent thing. Sometimes it is your best friend's husband and sometimes it's your father. It's weird. But that's a fact of life.
I'm compelled to paint nearly every day. I just felt like making a painting, went out and bought paints and a canvas. Now it fulfills me creatively when I'm not doing music: it's something you can do by yourself and it's totally yours. It's a great adjunct to my life.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
I just sit down and the page just comes out and I look at it and the elements that appear on that page have a lot to do with what's going on in my life.
Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.
The people in your life are important. Meaningful relationships with those people are very important.
I am a happy man. I've had a good life.
Life is a dead-end street.
I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months.
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia.
I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled.
I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life. I think that is what helped me get the role on 'Lassie', I was comfortable around the dog, where many of the kids were afraid or intimidated by Lassie.
There's no such thing as 'facts of life'. Only standing theories that haven't been disproved as of yet.
The thing I love about acting is that it's got nothing to do with me; it's about bringing forth a director's vision. It's like a release. I'm glad it's come back into my life.
I'm a minor player in my own life story.
Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.
That's a big gift when people say to you that a song helped them or brought them to some place in their life where they needed to be.
I hadn't planned on or expected to have a public dimension in my life.
If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.
My back to the goal, physically fighting off defenders, trying to bang my goals in, every week I have to do the business for this club. That's the life of a striker.
Without peace, there is nothing truly human. Peace is harmony. And harmony is the highest ideal of life.
Even the Impressionists, the most innovative artists of their time, sought to paint realistically. They believed that their freer way of portraying the visible world was truer to life than the literal realism of the 'salon painters' who dominated French art throughout the 19th century.