Lives Quotes - page 11

It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people, we can't spend our time simply trying to stay in touch. The test of a friendship is if it can weather these inevitable gaps. (William Boyd)
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. View quote
Charles Cooley
Human beings have an innate inner drive to be autonomous, self-determined, and connected to one another. And when that drive is liberated, people achieve more and live richer lives. View quote
Daniel H. Pink
I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives. View quote
David McCallum
Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle. View quote
James Surowiecki
Early investment in the lives of disadvantaged children will help reduce inequality, in both the short and the long run. View quote
James Heckman
Self-control, openness, the ability to engage with others, to plan and to persist - these are the attributes that get people in the door and on the job, and lead to productive lives. View quote
James Heckman
Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods. View quote
James Hillman
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this. View quote
Jane Smiley
Deep down, if we really accept that their lives - African lives - are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put the fire out. Its an uncomfortable truth. View quote
Jeffrey D. Sachs
Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end. (Joan D. Vinge)
There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul; we search for its outlines all our lives. View quote
Josephine Hart
One of the saddest realities is that we never know when our lives are at their peak. Only after it is over and we have some kind of perspective do we realize how good we had it a day, a month, five years ago. View quote
Jonathan Carroll
All of us have our own inner fears, beliefs, opinions. These inner assumptions rule and govern our lives. A suggestion has no power in and of itself. its power arises from the fact that you accept it mentally. View quote
Joseph Murphy
they danced as though they'd been waiting all their lives for each song. View quote
Amy Bloom
Nothing living should ever be treated with contempt. Whatever it is that lives, a man, a tree, or a bird, should be touched gently, because the time is short. Civilization is another word for respect for life. View quote
Elizabeth Goudge
Paternalism is everywhere in our lives. We have to immunise our children unless we are upset about it. In India, it is the opposite. It is possible to get your kids immunised, but you really have to want to. View quote
Esther Duflo
The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus. View quote
Cornelia Funke
The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. View quote
Louis L'Amour
The purpose of our lives is to be happy. (Dalai Lama)
I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives. View quote
Richard M. Daley
The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes. View quote
Eric Temple Bell
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. View quote
Walter Anderson
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. View quote
Robert Baden-Powell