Lives Quotes

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

I jetset around and play these songs and get to hang with some pretty amazing people, then I go home to a really great farm, though actually it's a disaster area of a farm at the moment. But it's certainly a blast. I wouldn't trade lives with anyone right now.

The lives of prisoners of war after they are returned is almost never discussed, never explored.

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.

From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths.

Looking at America's history, ordinary people did something extraordinary. Leaders risked their lives for freedoms that we take for granted today.That's what instills confidence. That's us. We will move forward and prosper because that's who we are as Americans.

Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.

Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.

Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want to be considerate of every man - Who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do?

I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.

What makes a person is the ability to look at themselves and deal with their own lives.

A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere.

People think actors have such glamorous lives, but the truth is actors go where nobody wants to go.

Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!

If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may occupy the same physical space, but we don't occupy the same psychic space.

We have long honored those who gave their lives during the unfortunate reality of war.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

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.

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition.

Life comes to the miners out of their deaths, and death out of their lives.

I love working for the people of Indiana. I love helping our citizens make the most of their lives, but I do not love Congress.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.