Best 117 quotes in «life is like quotes» category

Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.

Asking, ‘If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?’ is like asking, ‘If there is no master, whose slave will I be?’ If your purpose of life is to submit as a slave, then your meaning comes from flattering the ego of a person whom you should detest.

For me nightlife is like everyday life's mirror.

Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.

If you take real-life circumstances and take out all the pauses then you have a thriller. It has to be non-stop, high stakes and fascinating all the time. Real life is like that from time to time.

I always thought realistic was a better way to explain things that were "dramedies" because life is like that. It's funny, it's dramatic and to me that's how I see it.

I'm only 26 - I don't know anything about life yet. Life is like a puzzle and my pieces are spread all over the world.

I'm not worried about what's going to happen when I'm thirty, because I am never going to make it to thirty. You know what life is like after thirty - I don't want that.

I pray for meaning. I pray for the limits of reality to become clear. For a world – and a type of being – that makes sense. I pray for a life after death that is not like this life. I pray for the end of mystery. What would a life be like with all the mysteries solved? If there were no questions, there’d be no stories. If there were no stories, there’d be no language. If there was no language there’d be no . . . What?

I prefer simple things - monotone melodies repeating the same things all the time. Because I think life is like that.

In a country like South Africa, writers have nuisance value, because those of us who have become known overseas have certainly helped to inform people about what life is like there.

I think the only reason you visit an Apple store is because you wonder what life is like on another planet.

I will find out what the normal life is like. I will be a coach. I have achieved everything I could achieve in gymnastics.

It’s like in soccer: you have to deal with the penalties where they fall; you can’t choose where they’re going to land. Life is like that, and you have to deal with it even if you don’t like it.

Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.

Life is like a film screen: pictures come, make an impression, go, and then make a place for new pictures with new impressions which obscure the previous ones. Some of those old pictures fade, but the impressions they leave will never pass away. Such an impression is the image of Hein Sietsma -- a joyful Christian who loved life so much but was still willing to give it to the great, good, and holy cause.

Life is like a great teacher..... she will repeat the lesson until you learn.

Life is like a huge lottery in which only the winning tickets are visible.

Life is like an EKG. Without the ups and downs, you're not living.

"Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.

Life is like that. Some days are diamonds and some days are stones.

Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.

Life is like a B-picture script.

Life is like a cup of coffee or tea. No matter how bitter it may be, it is always enjoyable.

life is like a jigsaw puzzle, you have to see the whole picture, then put it together piece by piece!

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles.

Life is like an escalator. You see, it carries you on regardless. And you might as well enjoy the view and seize every opportunity while you're passing. Otherwise, it'll be too late.

Life is like Candyland, there are many paths to take, sometimes you run into Lord Licorice but the end will always be Candy Castle.

Life is like molten glass. It flows, it's flexible, it can be molded and shaped and...what do you say? Ah, yes. It holds vast potential. You have a number of uncertainties in your melt right now. But they will always be there in one form or another. Always. Unlike molten glass, life can't be fixed or frozen into a pretty vase and placed on a shelf to gather dust.

Life is like Twitter: nobody wants to sign off.

Life is like walking you take one step at a time.

Life is like a box of chocolates, I'm a nerd and I read books

Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.

Life is like a field of newly fallen snow. Where I choose to walk every step will show.

Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

Life is like jury duty. Just do it and get it over with.

Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.

Life is like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy.

Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.

Life is like waiting in line at the grocery store. You wait, you slowly move forward, you pay the price, then you exit unsatisfied and broke.

Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

Life is like a book. There are good chapters, and there are bad chapters. But when you get to a bad chapter, you don’t stop reading the book! If you do… then you never get to find out what happens next!

Life is like a box of chocolates.

Life is like a dice, so watch the ones you're rolling with.

Life is like a garden, you reap what you sow

Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.

Life... is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.

Life is like a maze in which you try to avoid the exit.