Lives Quotes
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The world comes to us in fragments and shards. Whatever stories we shape from our days, we're always dealing with gaps, blank-spots, and blackouts - and in handling all these breakages, we are, at all times, so incredibly intimate with sharp edges, the unending knife-like moments of failure and joy in our lives.
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Bird misses everything at once. One thing makes her want all the others— lived or not, still she misses them. She misses lives she has never lived— days issued out of the future , hours that will never be.
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The war on terror is especially dangerous because it is based on an ever-present hypothetical threat that can affect every aspect of our lives – giving governments an excuse to regulate every aspect of our lives.
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There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at every border that we cross.
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Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.
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No one hurts my family and lives.
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Get out there and vote like your lives depend on it.
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I have no responsibilities but to make people's lives better.
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I think I can adapt quite easily from having a Spanish mother and an English dad and growing up in both places. I feel like I've got two lives - that Spanish life, which was so free, and then I lived in England and went to an all-girls, private school and had to fit in with that. That switching out and becoming someone else, I find it quite liberating, actually.
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Nothing is stronger than the bond between people who risk their lives fighting shoulder to shoulder
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I believe it is one of our biggest tasks - the task of our life - to do everything possible to counter poverty and to build a freedom-loving future.
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What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own?
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Our lives ... are but a little while, so let them run as sweetly as you can, and give no thought to grief from day to day. For time is not concerned to keep our hopes, but hurries on its business, and is gone.
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The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers.
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The measure of a man is in the lives he’s touched.
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The greatest legacy that I can have is to build a brand that lives beyond me and stays true to the DNA of the brand.
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I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions, different opinions and lead quite different lives from the ones you see every day, and that is immensely valuable.
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We all want somebody to come in and save the day and change our lives for the better.
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This is what daughters did. They left, and came home later with lives of their own.
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You are one of those obsessed demoniacal creatures who ought to be avoided at all costs; they bring misfortune into the lives of others; they ruin the lives of others. The real good people are humble and silent (like your Kitty is). But beware, God sees all vanity and pride and you cannot fool him.
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Each attraction, limited as it may appear to be, is a cosmic happening-it occurs within the broader pattern of things, within the endlessly complex structure which underlies our lives.
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It's pain that changes our lives.
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We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
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We had slipped into each others lives seamlessly, as though we had known each other for years.
