Lives Quotes - page 5

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case. (Albert Einstein)
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. View quote
Edward Abbey
Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Our lives are one endless stretch of misery punctuated by processed fast foods and the occasional crisis or amusing curiosity. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. View quote
Phyllis Diller
Humanity lives in its fiction. View quote
Blaise Cendrars
Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you. View quote
Eileen Caddy
Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we've loved them, left them, or fought them. View quote
Gregory David Roberts
... Dreams come to tell us something about our lives that we are missing. View quote
James Redfield
Too many lives are needed to make just one. View quote
Eugenio Montale
It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life. (Claudia Cardinale)
It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself. View quote
Joyce Maynard
A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel. View quote
José Martí
Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours. View quote
John Updike
Venerable men you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. View quote
Daniel Webster
Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. View quote
John Adams
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core. View quote
William James
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. View quote
J. Michael Straczynski
Everybody, my friend, everybody lives for something better to come. That's why we want respect for every man - who knows what's in him, why he was born and what he can do? View quote
Maxim Gorky
To some extent, people who are insane are nonconformists, and society and their family wish they would live what appear to be useful lives. (John Forbes Nash)
At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him? View quote
Blaise Pascal
Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives. View quote
Blaise Pascal
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. View quote
Edward Dahlberg