Lives Quotes - page 6

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. (George Eliot)
I am an Egyptian Muslim, educated in Cairo and New York, and now living in Vienna. My wife and I have spent half our lives in the North, half in the South. And we have experienced first hand the unique nature of the human family and the common values we all share. View quote
Mohamed ElBaradei
The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives - the death of genuine feeling, the death of inspired response, the awareness that makes it possible to feel the pain or the glory of other men in yourself. View quote
Norman Cousins
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them. View quote
Thornton Wilder
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? View quote
Marcel Marceau
We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. (Montesquieu)
Oft, as in airy rings they skim the heath, The clamtrous lapwings feel the leaden death Oft, as the mounting larks their notes prepare They fall, and leave their little lives in air. View quote
Alexander Pope
For he lives twice who can at once employ The present well, and evn the past enjoy. View quote
Alexander Pope
You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film -- you give over your life In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up. View quote
Daniel Day-Lewis
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. View quote
Annie Dillard
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. View quote
Annie Dillard
Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation. View quote
Margaret Mead
In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world. View quote
Margaret Mead
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The people who come to watch us play, who love the team and regard it as part of their lives, would never appreciate Liverpool having a huge balance in the bank. They want every asset we possess to be wearing a red shirt. View quote
Kenny Dalglish
I believe that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality, and that everything works out for the best. (Jim Henson)
The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned. View quote
Maya Angelou
General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else. View quote
Marvin Minsky
That man lives badly who does not know how to die well. View quote
Seneca
I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways. View quote
Lucille Ball