Lives Quotes - page 10

Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin. (Walter Scott)
It 's no fish ye 're buying, it 's men's lives. View quote
Walter Scott
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
The whole Earth is the Sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on Stone over their native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives. View quote
Pericles
If there's another world, he lives in bliss; If there is none, he made the best of this. View quote
Robert Burns
If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exists, therefore, outside alkaloids and habit, a sense for opium, an intangible habit which lives on, despite the recasting of the organism. The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house. View quote
Jean Cocteau
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter - for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes. View quote
Nikola Tesla
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. View quote
Quentin Crisp
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living. (Guy de Maupassant)
Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small. View quote
Phillips Brooks
All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives. View quote
John Ralston Saul
A person cannot choose the time in which he is born or lives; it is not up to him, who his parents are, or the nation he will be born into, but what he is responsible for is how he will act in that given time: will he be human or inhuman. View quote
Pavle (Serbian)
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. View quote
Augustine of Hippo
And this is one of the major questions of our lives: how we keep boundaries, what permission we have to cross boundaries, and how we do so. View quote
A. B. Yehoshua
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives. View quote
Manuel Puig
We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it. View quote
Mark Strand
I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere. View quote
Melinda Gates
Codependents are reactionaries. They overreact. They under-react. But rarely do they act. They react to the problems, pains, lives, and behaviors of others. They react to their own problems, pains, and behaviors. View quote
Melody Beattie
Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives. (Mary Balogh)
Are the details of our lives who we are, or is it owning those details that makes the difference? View quote
Mary E. Pearson
I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are. View quote
Penelope Lively
The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that anyone is immune. The important thing is how you behave. View quote
Tamara Mellon
So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light? View quote
Anthony Doerr