Lives Quotes

I am staunchly committed to ensuring the long-term solvency of Social Security and preserving full benefits for Americans who have spent their entire working lives contributing to this program.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

I know that throughout their history, the people of the United States defended their freedom, their liberty, their justice, and their rights - if need be - with their lives. I think their courage is so admirable.

The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.

Those whose lives were lost on September 11 will remain in our thoughts and prayers forever.

If you're the village blacksmith and a model T comes along, you better become a mechanic. People's lives are better when they get news online versus having to wait for the morning paper. It's a lot more efficient, a lot more real time, a lot less waste.

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

We assume that everything's becoming more efficient, and in an immediate sense that's true; our lives are better in many ways. But that improvement has been gained through a massively inefficient use of natural resources.

Mixing humour and harsh reality is a very human behaviour, it's the way people stay sane in their daily lives.

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I have my new food line in the works - I think it's over 200 items. Hopefully I can make a difference; it's delicious food that's just so easy. I think it'll help people enjoy their lives... it's good!

Emotions get in the way but they don't pay me to start crying at the loss of 269 lives. They pay me to put some perspective on the situation.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

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.

I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.

The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.

One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.

As the war on terror continues, Americans must honor the brave men and women who gave their lives for the protection of this nation and the hope of peace.

I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters.

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

I mean, I enjoy my work as an actor. But to make a difference in people's lives through advocacy and through supporting research - that's the kind of privilege that few people will get, and it's certainly bigger than being on TV every Thursday for half an hour.

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.

Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.

I believe it is incumbent upon Congress to act aggressively to ameliorate fear and help our country take the essential steps that will make our communities and lives safer.

My work caused me to interview hundreds of women about their lives and their problems.