Lives Quotes
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Tribes makes our lives better, and leading a tribe is the best life of all.
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Our lives are led, and our decisions made, within a network of needs and wants, some natural, some arising from the acts of others, some aggravated by the acts of the state. We are all bored, or threatened, or tantalized in differing degrees by a perilous world, some hostile people, and a not very sensitive government.
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One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price.
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Without initiative, or the capacity to act, to make things happen or just to do something, we run the risk of living passive lives waiting for things to happen. We wait for opportunities instead of making them. We wait for love, for our big break, for a problem to disappear. We are waiting for our lives to live us, instead of going out and living our lives with purpose and action.
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People have a capacity to keep going even when their world has been shattered. We all long for connection, for affirmation that our lives matter.
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We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's in the air we breathe. It's everywhere.
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Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.
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We don't have control over our lives. We just have control over how we take things.
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A free man, who lives among ignorant people, tries as much as he can to refuse their benefits. .. He who lives under the guidance of reason endeavours as much as possible to repay his fellow's hatred, rage, contempt, etc. with love and nobleness.
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I don't think anybody in the world is perfect. I don't think anybody is absolutely good or bad or stupid. Each one of us combines all those qualities in our daily lives, I think.
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A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.
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Integrity, or the lack of it, touches almost every facet of our lives-everything we say, every thought and desire.
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A rigid America is also weak and vulnerable, because it sacrifices its unique strength: the energy of people who think they can always make something new of their lives.
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In the name of a greater civilization, we curse those who for the sake of their ambitious dreams, brought about the massacre of so many young lives. No matter how brutal the crime, you will always get glorification of its heroism and tradition from the eunuchs of bourgeois culture.”
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People try to live their lives without consequences and end up living lives of no consequence.
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Someone who does not run toward the allure of love walks a road where nothing lives. But this dove here senses the love hawk floating above, and waits, and will not be driven or scared to safety.
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One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called "freedom."
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I think the reason my relationship works so well with my dad is that we can separate our tennis lives from our personal lives.
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“Not all battles can be won. Not all lives can be saved. And no matter how we wish it, not all songs end in joy.”
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Being a vegetarian really saves lives.
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I like people who lead unusual lives, and very often a person with a disability fits into that category.
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The point of our lives is not to get smart or to get rich or even to get happy. The point is to discover God’s purposes for us and to make them our own.
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By bringing nature into our lives, we invite humility.
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By the end of our lives, we're covered in battle scars and shrapnel.
