Lives Quotes

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

The lowest form of popular culture - lack of information, misinformation, disinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives - has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

There are already a lot of devices in our lives that have rich text or the ability to handle graphics. Our devices are designed to be understood in less than a quarter of a second.

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

It is not good to see people who have been pretending strength all their lives lose it even for a minute.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

I'm drawn to almost any piece of writing with the words 'divine love' and 'impeachment' in the first sentence. But I know the word 'divine' makes many progressive people run screaming for their cute little lives, and so one hesitates to use it.

Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.

Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.

On the contrary a film can promote the idea of change without any political message whatsoever but in its form and language can tell people that they can change their lives and contribute to progressive changes in the world.

Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

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.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

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.