Top 1200 Life Is Like Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.

Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.

There isn't a carer in the world who doesn't say, 'I hate it. My life is being ruined. I didn't see my life like this.'

I'd like to keep a bit of my life my own, so I'm not publicizing my whole life on social media and stuff.

You know, they've got these chocolate assortments, and you like some but you don't like others? And you eat all the ones you like, and the only ones left are the ones you don't like as much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. Now I just have to polish these off, and everything'll be OK. Life is a box of chocolates. I suppose you could call it a philosophy.

Life is like a rose, peeping through the hardships of life to bloom with color.

I don't hope for anything. Not only in my professional life, but in my family life also. My total lifestyle is like that.

Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.

I don't feel like consistency is in my life at all, but I honestly wouldn't have it any other way because it keeps my life interesting.

I like to write about real-life topics, and I like to write about different walks of life.

Chess is life and every game is like a new life.

Acting is just a part of my life, and I like to lead life on my terms.

We can think so much about life and take ourselves so seriously; I mean, I like to tell people, 'Don't take life too seriously' because you'll cloud the experience. That's what the meaning of life is to me - being able to enjoy the moment.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school - you'll be tested; we gotta pass it.

I can't remember any dreams in my life. There's so much strange in real life that it often seems like a dream.

I like to tell the students the radio business's like surfing. You get knocked off your board by a wave, you get back up, stabilize, regain your balance and keep going. One thing I can guarantee them is that everything will change. You have to be ready for it. But that's life. Life constantly changes.

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

A thing is either alive or it isn’t; there is nothing that is almost alive. There is but the remotest possibility of the origin of life by spontaneous generation, and every likelihood that Arrhenius is right when he dares to claim that life is a cosmic phenomenon, something that drifts between the spheres, like light, and like light transiently descends upon those fit to receive it.

People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-headed goat. A monster from some other planet. They keep reminding you of your pain. You see how they look at me? They’re stuck on that person I used to be. They can’t see that old life as just a moment in time that I’ve moved on from. It was a horrible life.

I don't think I've ever been just like, happy with life. I live life as a realist.

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

I'm very comfortable with an R-rating. I feel like it sounds like what people talk like in real life; I think it's more real to me.

The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas. Tolerant like the sky, all-pervading like sunlight, firm like a mountain, supple like a tree in the wind, he has no destination in view and makes use of anything life happens to bring his way.

Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?

I try to mimic the pattern of memory and of thinking and the randomness of life. It's like a journey. That is the main thing about the beauty of life; that you don't cram. And not only beauty, but also the fact that there is never a concrete thing in life.

I think I'm a bit of a dreamer. I don't like the reality of life to impinge much on my life.

Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.

To me, life without soccer would be like living a mindless and empty life.

Mumbai is like Manhattan. There's a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.

That little window like 2004 through like 2010 was probably the most, like most inspiring time of my creative life, for sure.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

When I went home, my family became a little lonely family because it was just me and my mom. Part of my longing to go back to work was wanting to be surrounded by these people who were teaching me things and drinking bad coffee at three in the morning while we were lying around in a bikini in the winter. Somehow it just felt like real life. It felt more like real life than my life.

Turning 30 changed me in ways I didn't expect. For the very first time, I felt like my life is valuable. Not my life because I'm putting something good into the world or I'm well-respected in my field, but my life as a human being on this planet for a limited amount of time.

Every evening words, not stars, light the sky. No rest in life like life itself.

Content with his past life, let him take leave of life like a satiated guest.

The way I eat in my day-to-day life is, like, very simple to the point of being absurd. Like, my boyfriend makes fun of me because if I'm eating a snack, it's often, like, a pickle and then a hard-boiled egg and then crackers and then maybe a carrot, and it's like I'm eating like a baby.

If there's a reason for the way that life is I'd like to find it. After all, who's life is it?

People wonder why there seems to be no meaning in life. Meaning does not exist a priori. There is no meaning existing in life; one has to create it. Only if you create it will you discover it. It has to be invented first. It is not lying there like a rock, it has to be created like a song. It is not a thing, it is significance that you bring through your consciousness.

It's a lot like life. I think 99 percent of what goes on in life, we have very little control over.

Everybody says women are like water. I think it's because water is the source of life, and it adapts itself to its environment. Like women, water also gives of itself wherever it goes to nurture life.

You have to be very cautious about what you are doing for charity and things like that. I think you have to start with your life. I think that's what life is expecting you to do. In your family, in your surroundings, in your work life, in the people you're with, your relationships; how you behave and doing what you need to accomplish. That for me is being a hero every day of your life.

I like to live life in a way that I understand, it's satisfying. I understand you have to reach a mark where everyone likes you but in reality they don't like you, they like your work.

I like interacting with human beings, so being on stage feels like a larger version of that - kind of like throwing a party. It's like knocking into the human collision of everyday life and it just so happens to break down the wall between the audience and me and helps the songs communicate better.

And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end

Our emotions are ever-changing and infinitely varied, but the words with which we describe them are fixed and rigid. Our life is like quicksilver, our vocabulary like steel. Sometimes a consummate poet succeeds in rendering the quality of life in words. For the rest of us, this is not possible.

I've worked for a long time, but I got to the point where I felt like, I am out here so far, how do I get back? I want to have a real life, a personal life. I didn't want a personal life I just visited.

Life is not like water. Things in life don't necessarily flow over the shortest possible route.

Have you ever thought about the grid of Manhattan?' It's like...a metaphor for life. You think you have the freedom to walk anywhere. But in fact... you are strictly controlled. Up or down. Left or right. Nothing in between. No other options.' Life should be like an open space...you should be able to walk in whatever direction you choose.

Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way.

Mumbai is like Manhattan. Theres a certain pace, a social life and the thrill of a professional life.

The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography.

Like so many things Henry had wanted in life -- like his father, his marriage, his life -- it had arrived a little damaged. Imperfect. But he didn't care, this was all he'd wanted. Something to hope for, and he'd found it. It didn't matter what condition it was in.

In football, like in life, there are always millimetres which can change things - the course of a goal or of a life.

If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.

I certainly lead a different life from many people. I have a great life that I am thankful for, and I like travelling.

an uneasy rhythm of life is more life like than an easy death

Beliefs should be like the rest of life, and real life isn't rules but learning and adaption.

Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the court I feel like Anna Pavlova. Or like Adelina Patti. Or even like Sarah Bernhardt. I see the footlights in front of me. I hear the whisperings of the audience. I feel an icy shudder. Win or die! Now or never! It's the crisis of my life.

When we put down ideas of what life should be like, we are free to wholeheartedly say yes to our life as it is.