Lives Quotes

I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it.

Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world.

Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don't increase the amount of aid we are giving.

When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.

The craziest thing I've done is cut my hair blonde and short a couple of years ago. And people reached out to me saying, 'Celine, you're one of the most stable things we have in our lives, don't do that. We want you the way you are.'

I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

That every man after the life in the world lives to eternity, is evident from this, that man is then spiritual, and no longer natural, and that the spiritual man, separated from the natural, remains such as he is to eternity, for man's state cannot be changed after death.

Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.

The administration is using the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to cut the wages of people desperately trying to rebuild their lives and their communities.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

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.

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.

I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives.

I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built.

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.

Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?