Lives Quotes

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world, I don't expect to see it just like I was seeing the fellow who lives in the next room.

As parents, we need to talk to young people about drugs and make sure they understand that drugs are dangerous, addictive substances that can ruin their lives and harm their communities.

The way I look at it is this, as Republicans, we look for less government interference in our lives.

There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren.

I actually was rebelling as all young adults tend to do at or around the age of 19, to experiment with their lives and have fun.

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

I think the point about ActionAid is what it's asking people to do is engage with poor people in developing countries and understand what their lives are like and understand how the way we live our lives impacts on theirs.

When children are small, parents should run their lives and not the other way around.

As a New Yorker, I'm someone who lives on an island and looks across to America.

Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.

In some ways, people forget about average working people, and how they live their lives.

You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator.

The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.

Whoever happens to give birth to mischievous children lives always with unending grief in his spirit and heart.

We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there.

The conduct of President Bush's war of choice has been plagued with incompetent civilian leadership decisions that have cost many lives and rendered the war on and occupation of Iraq a strategic policy disaster for the United States.

One of the first things I did was interview the President of the United States. Some people work their whole lives and can't interview someone of that stature.

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.

There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.

But on the other hand, in the midst of the chaos, you find normal people. You find people who are willing to risk their lives to tell you what they saw, even though they have no dog in the fight.

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves.

Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.

God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.

Americans are making coffee a bigger part of their lives, expanding attitudes and behaviors that are driving new levels of consumption.

I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

I've been around a long time, so I guess I've touched a lot of people's lives - hopefully for the better.