Lives Quotes

We live in a period of declining stars. Few celebrities these days (aside from the smoldering Angelina Jolie) seem to have complex psychic lives.

I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.

People ought to have more control over their lives.

Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.

Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

Look, some people talk about their personal lives a lot; I try not to, unless it's more of a generality.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives.

I'm thankful I grew up the way I did. It made me a hard worker and insightful to other people's lives.

We were never thrown into the situation in the middle of our lives, but grew up doing it. This is all we know, and some people who were thrown into it don't really know what to do or how to react and this is just kind of natural for us.

Women tend to have recognition and peer group support - recognition from friends and family that this has to be a big issue in their lives. They're more comfortable expressing the need for support and receiving it.

The Jew always lives from the blood of other peoples, he needs such murders and such sacrifices.

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

No damn man kills me and lives.

Since the days of Abraham many men of unusual intellect not only have diligently studied the divine plan, but have devoted their lives to having a part in making it known to others.

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.

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.

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.

Joe Barbera's s always complaining that he can't get humor into cartoons anymore. Just do it. You've got your money. Why do they let the networks run their lives?

My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.

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.

Our view is that individuals and families can govern their lives better than bureaucrats.

If torture is going to be administered as a last resort in the ticking-bomb case, to save enormous numbers of lives, it ought to be done openly, with accountability, with approval by the president of the United States or by a Supreme Court justice.

A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay.