Lives Quotes

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control.

There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives.

If Obamacare is allowed to stand - and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory - there will be no meaningful limit on Washington's reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended.

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

We were promised a simpler life, and technology has only complicated our lives.

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.

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.

My sister is a nurse and saves people's lives.

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.

I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it's people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Working lives are for the state to influence. Unemployment makes people unhappy. So does instability.

Some argue we should get coal, oil and gas out of the ground as quickly as possible, build more pipelines and make as much money as we can selling it here and abroad. Their priorities are the economy and meeting short-term energy needs so we can live the lives to which we've become accustomed.

We should strive for steadiness, and for a commitment to God that does not ebb and flow with the years or the crises of our lives.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

The Internet lives where anyone can access it.

It distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.

Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to use in whatever way we find convenient.

God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.