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- I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged
- Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature.
- Jane Goodall (1934 - )
- If you look through all the different cultures. Right from the earliest, earliest days with the animistic religions, we have sought to have some kind of explanation for our life, for our being, that is outside of our humanity.
- Jane Goodall (1934 - )
- One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Painted Veil, 1925
- Enmeshed in the details of life, a diary rarely talks about the important things. It turns out that most of life happens off-screen.
- Laura Moncur (1969 - ), The Quotations Blog, 09-19-07
- You can't choose what you're famous for in life.
- Dave Kellett, Sheldon, 10-11-09
- Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, sc.1
- Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, where death's approach is seen so terrible!
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Henry VI, Part II, Act III, sc. 3
- There is a tide in the affairs of men which taken at the flood leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Julius Caesar, Act IV, sc. 3
- There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Measure for Measure, Act III, sc.1
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