Lives Quotes

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

As long as the G.O.P., led by its increasingly visible women, continues to insist that the problem is not their policies but women's failure to understand their own lives and interests, the gender gap won't go away.

The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.

Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

We need to stop spending money on death, the war in Iraq and on enhancing the lives of the people in our own country.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

It is frightening that in recent years such an increase has occurred in acts of terrorism, which have even reached peaceful countries such as ours. And as a "remedy", more and more security forces are established to protect the lives of individual men and women.

I fought all my life for women to make their own choices, in their personal and professional lives. I made mine.

The problem is neutrality ends in poverty, neutrality ends in choices that hurt people's lives. This administration is deliberately telling organizations that are there to help young girls make good choices, not to tell them what the good choice is. That is absolutely unconscionable.

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order the continuous thread of revelation.

The mere fact of an American being present could help save the lives of innocent people. That's why I believe in the importance of bearing witness, to become a voice for the voiceless.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.

My apartment looks like no one lives in it.

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives.

I really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.

A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.

People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.

I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.

I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.

Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.

The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.