Lives Quotes

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.

People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives; there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death.

We've been in each other's pockets our entire lives.

He lives most life whoever breathes most air.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

We shouldn't any of us be afraid of teaching protective measures to save lives.

Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.

I certainly feel my career was a great career because it inspired so many many people, literally hundreds of people to follow a new kind of life and to realize that they could make out and advance their own professional and private and social lives.

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

I love the most the students with troubled lives.

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives.

That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.

The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power.

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.

He lives with his creativity in high gear.

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

I don't think many people have a very good understanding of leisure and the importance it plays in our lives.

Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.

In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.

Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.