Lives Quotes

We have to challenge the whole idea that it's acceptable for a society like Britain to have such a significant number of people who do not work one day of the week and don't have any possibility of improving the quality of their lives.

That's where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that's what I like. I've always felt that's what I would like to do.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives.

Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Jill and I arrange our lives to spend a lot of time together. That makes us both happy.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

The world that she lives in is just magical, one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen.

I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.

We found on our journey, as well as in the place where we stopped, that they treated us with as much confidence and good-will as if they had known us all their lives.

A career is all very well, but no one lives by work alone.

Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism; the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.

I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

A profound political question is suddenly on the table: Must the country continue to give precedence to private financial gain and market determinism over human lives and broad public values?

I have always been intrigued by these lives I have never experienced.

If we had pursued what President Nixon declared in 1970 as the war on cancer, we would have cured many strains. I think Jack Kemp would be alive today. And that research has saved or prolonged many lives, including mine.

The advocates of abortion on demand falsely assume two things: that women must suffer if the lives of unborn children are legally protected; and that women can only attain equality by having the legal option of destroying their innocent offspring in the womb.