Life-Altering Quotes

My life has been a whirlwind since the '94 Olympics.

At any moment the decision you make can change the course of your life forever.

At Kobe, whither I fled from Hong Kong, I took a step of great importance. I cut off my cue, which had been growing all my life.

You must change your life.

One small decision, for me to get on a flight from Finland to the U.K. - I had no idea how that one small thing could just change my whole life forever.

You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever, the very next person who you stand behind in line or sit next to on an aeroplane, the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book you read or page you turn could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open, and all of the things that you've been waiting for to fall into place.

Politics changes lives. You would expect me, as a politician, to say that. But I don't say it as a politician: I say it as someone whose own life was changed.

I've got kids now; it changes you radically.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

The Olympics is one of the memories that will always be with me. It changed my life for the better.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back.

I'll remember my life as pre-'Lady Bird' and post-'Lady Bird.'

It was Howard Hawks who changed my life.

If, as they say, the threat of the hangman's noose has a powerful way of focusing one's attention, the same can be said of pregnancy.

Sometimes your whole life boils down to one insane move.

Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

We plan our lives according to a dream that came to us in our childhood, and we find that life alters our plans. And yet, at the end, from a rare height, we also see that our dream was our fate. It's just that providence had other ideas as to how we would get there. Destiny plans a different route, or turns the dream around, as if it were a riddle, and fulfills the dream in ways we couldn't have expected.

Having a child, particularly your first child, is such a life-changing moment. Nothing can really prepare you for that.

You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life!

I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.

Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.

I don't think people realize how life-altering running for president is.

I suffered a stroke in 2002 that made everything else in my life that happened to that point pale in comparison.

Everyone's got a moment or two in their life where something happens and you make a decision and then your entire life changes.