Lives Quotes - page 9

He mourns the dead who lives as they desire. (Edward Young)
He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. View quote
Richard Savage
Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty. View quote
Albrecht Dürer
What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all. View quote
Lord Byron
This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. View quote
Oswald Spengler
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals. View quote
Brian Tracy
No man is born unto himself alone Who lives unto himself, he lives to none. View quote
Francis Quarles
There are times when you come across somebody that's really impressive, someone that's got a proper living and really does make a difference to people's lives. Then I do feel a bit of a wanker, admitting I'm an actress. That's hard to say to someone who may be making a difference. But I don't know how I could change things. (Michelle Gomez)
All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
One lives but once in the world. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility. View quote
Eric Hoffer
...I like the idea that stories are active, that if you stepped on them they would become alive, like plants, and that the same memory can grow new shoots and flowers, and can change over the course of people's lives... View quote
Jackie Kay
Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought. View quote
Mark Kingwell
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why. View quote
James Joyce
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. View quote
William Shakespeare
The turtle lives twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile. View quote
Ogden Nash
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. View quote
Toni Morrison
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day. (Sophocles)
Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult. View quote
Richard Stallman
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and eight times out of nine I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. View quote
Charles Bukowski
Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke