Lives Quotes

Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don't do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don't increase the amount of aid we are giving.

When I ask teachers why they teach, they almost always say that it is because they want to make a difference in the lives of children.

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum.

With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.

The craziest thing I've done is cut my hair blonde and short a couple of years ago. And people reached out to me saying, 'Celine, you're one of the most stable things we have in our lives, don't do that. We want you the way you are.'

I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.

I published in 1978 a report on dreams in the Journal of Clinical Psychology. It was the first study of its kind to demonstrate that it is possible for people to make constructive use of their dreams to improve their lives.

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

A lot of people are living their lives online in much more public ways with Facebook and Twitter.

The whole point of being in this business and being blessed and being successful is that you're able to do things for your friends or your family, which means that they can have something special in their lives, too.

Daytime has been successful all these years because it caters to a very real need in the audience - to see something that's not nighttime fantasy. People watch daytime because it's like their lives.

The effects of human rights education can be dramatic in awakening people to the value and power of their own lives, as shown in the following stories.

Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

A cat, I am told, has nine lives. If that is true, I know how a cat feels.

It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.

What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos.

If information ends up in the wrong hands, the lives of people very often are immediately at risk.

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.