Lives Quotes

We try to organize the world, which isn't organized the way our brains want to organize it. We tell stories about the people in our lives, we project ideas onto them. We project relationships with people, we make our lives into stories. I don't think we can avoid doing that.

A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away.

I responded that we needed a private sector to improve the market situation and make peoples lives easier.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

I'd been kind of a hiccup in my parents' lives. They lost track of me and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. And then fate reached in and took me in its hands. I was discovered right out of high school and started getting work.

What inspires me most are people who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and around the world.

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable.

Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people.

I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

Man lives for science as well as bread.

I'm not a virtuoso on an instrument. You know, I'm not always singing in pitch. I laugh sometimes my way through the shows, but I'm an honest songwriter who's always tried to bring the audience with me on my journey in hopes that they see their own lives reflected in the work.

Up to 80 percent of the fish that we catch spend at least part of their lives in estuaries.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.

I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them.

America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.

The power of television - it's so present in our lives, we don't even know how powerful it is.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, democracy and justice.

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.

My purpose is to inspire people of all walks of life to discover the virtue inherent within them and to bring forth that virtue in their daily lives.

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 are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm.

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.