Lives Quotes

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

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.

Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning.

Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.

A person who cares deeply about what people need in their lives is someone I'll never forget.

I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel.

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.

It is essential that all Americans take the time to honor and remember those individuals who gave their lives in defense of our liberty.

I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am.

I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

Our sexual lives are maintained by the shadow side and the light side, so the more we can understand and embrace enlightenment, the less need there is for chemical enhancement.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.

Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.

I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Let us not be afraid to see the hatred that consumes the lives of hundreds of thousands of Arabs who sit around us and wait for the moment when their hands will be able to reach our blood.

I like poking my nose into other people's lives.

I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.

Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to church when he's had a rough divorce or is going through depression. We go out into nature instead.

Technological advances could allow us to see more clearly into our own lives.

The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.

When bureaucrats talk about increasing our 'access' to x, y or z, what they're really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to 'increase' Internet 'access.'

The security fence is reversible. Human lives are irreversible.