Life Course Quotes

I think one of the important things that's happened in the course of the century is that life expectancy has doubled. — Ron Chernow

In every life story, including our own, decisions are made in haste that determine the course of eternity. — Liz Curtis Higgs

Life goes on. What nonsense, I thought, of course it doesn't. It's death that goes on. — Mary Ann Shaffer

You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me. — Calvin Coolidge

A perfect example, in matters of life and death, of love and passion, of choice or destiny; options decrease to a singular course. — Bruce Crown

She isn't a big deal, of course, except to the people who matter in her life, but since these are the only ones she cares about, that's fine. — Stephen King

Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever. — Jean-Claude Izzo

Of course, if you can pretend to be strong all your life, then you can be very comforting to those around you. — Kurt Vonnegut

Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold. — Shawn Johnson

What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think. — Denis Thatcher

Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life. — Gaylord Nelson

No one will ever know what I went through to secure those negatives. The world can never appreciate it. It changed the whole course of my life. — Mathew Brady

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable. — Oscar Wilde

There is love of course. And then there's life, its enemy. — Jean Anouilh

Your true power lies in how you respond to life's curves. Your best choice of course ... is to always keep your joy — Timothy Pina

There weren't really any visible men in my family when I was growing up, but of course there have been men in my life, wonderful men. — Naomie Harris

Shamanism is not a course, but a life journey. — Alberto Villoldo

Of course God already knows what I need. The question is - do I know? — Elizabeth Gilbert

In many ways, my decision to come out changed the course not only of my personal life but of my professional one as well. — George Takei

The recounting of a life is a cheat, of course. — Carol Shields

Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater. — William Ralph Inge

There were moments in which a person reached a crossroads, when something happened, out of the blue, to change the course of life's events. — Kate Morton

Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it — Sarah Dessen

People ask, 'Are your things autobiographical?,' and I think, no, they're not autobiographical directly, but of course my life has informed my work. — Andrea Arnold

Of course, things will go wrong. Move on! Don't let the little snags affect the progress of your life.-RVM — R.v.m.

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives. — Ayn Rand

Shameless self-publicity works, of course: living your life as a soap opera. — Chris Lowe

The realization of such a thing cannot possibly be as beautiful as its imagining, of course. — Alyson Foster

Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits. — Oscar Wilde

When life is taking its ordinary course, it was hard to remember what really mattered. — Gretchen Rubin

The most advanced computer science programs in the world, and over the course of the Computer Center's life, thousands of students passed — Malcolm Gladwell

Does this world feel like hell to you? Of course it does, because it is. — Naoyuki Ochiai

What you choose today will determine who you are tomorrow. — Tim Fargo

It's been my experience in life that if you step back and simply allow events to take their course, things will usually work out okay. Or they won't. — Donald O'Donovan

Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to follow it had come automatically. — Ayn Rand

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish. — Graham Taylor

As hope and fear alternate chase
Our course through life's uncertain race. — Walter Scott

Liza took her time sipping her tea. That's what I hear Janet. Of course, living it up can take years off your life and add them to your face. — Gwenn Wright

To change one's field of influence is to change the course of one's life. — Jenny Reese Clark

Sometimes, our pride compels us to engage in costly wars when a true commitment to a compromising peace would have been the best course to pursue. — Janvier Chouteu-Chando

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

But do you really want to spend your life like this, as if you're locked in a library?" "Of course." Alba grins. "I can't think of anything better. — Menna Van Praag

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. — Winston S. Churchill

There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its course; a quiet conscience. — Euripides

The quality of your commitments will determine the course of your life. — Ralph Marston

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things. — Robert Southey

We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength. — Jimmy Carter

There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline. — Michel De Montaigne

Of course his life could be found in the pages of a book; I had just begun to notice that the lives of men always are. — Jamaica Kincaid

Of course things like that complicate life, and there are all kinds of
readjustments to think about, battles to fight and lines to draw. — Nick Hornby

I feel it's important to be active. People who retire, sit by their swimming pool and golf course and plan to relax have a very empty life. — Betty Ford

When God chooses you to deliver a message, to have a purpose, no one and nothing can reverse the course of His plan. — Carlos Wallace

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life. — Oscar Wilde

A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere. — John Le Carre

Life is too short to be safe and sit still and do nothing. Unless of course that is what God has for you to do in a particular place in your life. — Mary Engelbreit

Ali, of course, hasn't whipped every obstacle in his life. Only enough of them that we remember him as having done so. — Davis Miller

Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances. — Leo Tolstoy

This garden is your life. Of course, there are the occasional weeds - but more than anything, this garden is filled with so much life! — Seth Adam Smith

You need to answer questions on where, when and what to do — Sunday Adelaja

It took a while to adapt to life in London, but six months into my course at RADA, I felt very at home. — Sean Bean

It was an unexpected encounter that slowly altered the course of my life. — Patti Smith

Of course words are magic. That's why they call it spelling. — Brian Holguin

He would eventually have to pass through the forest, but he felt no fear. Of course - the forest was inside him, he knew, and it made him who he was. — Haruki Murakami

Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts. — Landon Donovan

But of course you don't have that power. Someone wants you, or your life does. The dog's misery was all of ours. Hear him howl! Some — Damien Wilkins

That's the difference between life and art, of course. Life has no frames, no curtains, no beginnings and no endings. — Orson Scott Card

My life here is perfect and I'm happy at Real Madrid so of course I want to stay as long as I can. — David Beckham

Old age and death are in the natural course of things. There is nothing a doctor can do about them. — Muso Soseki

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. — Jim Harrison

A holy and heavenly life is a continual pain to the consciences of sinners around you and continually solicits them to change their course. — Richard Baxter

Life is a suicide course, Miro. Check it out- basic philosophy course. You spend your life running out of fuel and when you're finally out, you croak. — Orson Scott Card

I love acting, of course, but being with my husband and my children always brought me the greatest joy and happiness in life. — Meryl Streep

Great inventors and discoverers seem to have made their discoveries and inventions as it were by the way, in the course of their everyday life. — Elizabeth Charles

An instant can crush a brain and change the course of life, the course of history. — Susan Abulhawa

All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course. — Tom Stoppard

I drink coffee for the taste, of course, since caffeine is the last thing I need. Most of the things I do in life are for flavor, not necessity — Emery Lord

STAY THE COURSE BY FORCE! — Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything changes. — Trina Schart Hyman

One's course in life often pivots on small incidents. — Sidney Huntington

A simple flap of a butterfly's wings can change the course of your destiny forever. — Baz Black

The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Of course we need to accept ourselves as we are, but we can't stop there. We also need to value ourselves enough make needed changes. — Steve Goodier

The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life. — Carl Jung

Whatever you do you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon, there will always be someone to tell you that you are wrong. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams. — Barack Obama

Life is unrest, and its passage at best a zigzag course, that only straightens to a direct line when viewed across the years. — Elbert Hubbard

Course, and were part of his life with Jiro. — Edmund De Waal

It was all very unmaidenly, of course; but maidenly is a word love and life and desire may crowd from the page. — Susan Glaspell

Let me remember that each life must follow its own course, and that what happens to other people has absolutely nothing to do with what happens to me. — Marjorie Holmes

Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life. — Sebastiao Salgado

Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater,
Had a wife and couldn't keep her.
Of course you cannot keep a wife-
Everyone's got to live their life! — Kristen McKee

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing. — Ian McEwan

Behold the life at ease; it drifts, The sharpened life commands its course. — George Meredith

My life is one long obstacle course with me as the chief obstacle. — Jack Paar

I went and did some things [rehab], and then of course my life didn't change that much [for a while], but I never missed work. — Kelsey Grammer

Lightening struck leaving its effects to course through her veins fusing him into the essence of her life force. — Truth Devour

Every act of kindness and consideration changes and enhances the course of life. — Barbara Marciniak

Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement. — Anonymous

The connections we make in the course of a life
maybe that's what heaven is. — Fred Rogers

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things. — Rene Descartes