Lives Quotes

There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.

Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

I'm less needy about needing to express myself through acting. I have many different lives outside of this that are extremely fulfilling.

You know, the point of a novel - or to me, the point of a novel, the gift of a novel is to go really deeply inside people's lives and inside their personal experiences.

But I do think it's unwise, and it - to build a mosque at the site where 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of a terrorist attack. And I think to me it demonstrates that the - that Washington, the White House, the administration, the President himself seems to be disconnected from the mainstream of America.

You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.

You know, women have a history of just being - we've been told all our lives not to say - in the fifties you couldn't say birth or even be pregnant hardly on television - and then gradually things have changed.

One girl who stands out was this Miami stripper. She still lives with her mother and father, and they know she strips. They call her by her stripper name, Freaky Red.

I'm not saving lives.

I'm just not that fascinating a person to have had all those lives that I've written about.

There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Television has tremendous power over our lives.

One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.

We can spend our whole lives underachieving.

We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.

We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.

But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.

Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.

I considered that the homes that people live in exactly describe their lives.

The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.

The dog lives here, Pete. You're just visiting.

Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.

I like stories that are not normal, everyday lives. I don't personally seek them out, but they find me.

Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?

You know, my daughters have been through their entire lives and knowing about my case.

All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.

Anything that we can do to improve the lives of elderly people is welcome so far as I am concerned.

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.