Alive Quotes

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive.

I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

Many of the technologies we've invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can't go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly.

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!

We need to keep hope alive and strive to do better.

If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it.

Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie!

A close friend of mine, Annie Leibovitz, who I've known for forty years, photographs celebrities every single day of the week but they all seem to look the same even though she's one of the most creative photographers alive. They all just look the same. Brad Pitt is a great actor but all the pictures of Brad Pitt look the same.

When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

I'm a bit of a night owl because that's when I feel the most creative and alive.

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.

Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.

The whole community of people with disabilities was alive, politically alive. I give Justin Dart credit for that. He traveled to every state in the country. He really made people with disabilities understand that they had some political power.

When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive.

Without truth I feel ashamed to be alive.

It was what became something of a pattern in the first couple of years of the Clinton White House and maybe even longer, where information would drip, drip, drip, drip, drip out which would keep stories alive, alive, alive.

Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.

I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment.

The box got bigger, the outside, the buildings. And all that we were doing. I had to raise about $1 million every two days just to stay alive.

I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.