Lives Quotes
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It's pain that changes our lives.
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Everybody is a regionalist. Tolstoy is a regionalist - one is where one lives, where one writes.
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We had slipped into each others lives seamlessly, as though we had known each other for years.
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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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That is what happens when a person lives alone for so long - no one else can change their ways.
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We need to understand that there is no formula for how women should lead their lives. that is why we must respect the choices that each woman makes for herself and her family. Every woman deserves the chance to realize her God-given potential.
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Some people try to deal with money by pretending it doesn't matter, but financial pressure is something that affects us all every day of our lives.
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My mum lives near Holkham Bay in Norfolk, and with my dad by the coast in Suffolk, I spend quite a bit of time by the sea.
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I want people to think about what and who they have in their lives and then run home to hug them and tell them how much they love them.
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Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.
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Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives.
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Our fate is something which exists outside ourselves, and which once revealed expresses the meaning of our lives. Apart, however, from soothsayers who claim to have a means of foretelling exactly what will befall us, this kind of fate is only normally revealed after a life has ended. Only then can the meaning of that life be understood.
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My only wish would be to have 10 more lives to live on this planet. If that were possible, I'd spend one lifetime each in embryology, genetics, physics, astronomy and geology. The other lifetimes would be as a pianist, backwoodsman, tennis player, or writer for the 'National Geographic.'
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The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered.
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The man who lives for himself is a failure; the man who lives for others has achieved true success.
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In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.
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When I would ask women to tell me landays, and they were comfortable enough to do so, they'd tell me ones that reflected the state of their own lives.
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Why haven't we seventy lives? One is no use.
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When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from a third of kids dying before 5 to - by 1990 it was down to 10% - now it's down to 5%. And saying why, over all history, there were smart people, but that number didn't change. Average life span didn't change. What's magical about what's been deemed the Industrial Revolution? It's really energy intensity.
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Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.
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A library is the door to many lives.
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The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success.
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Give us courage for your easy burden, so to live untaxed lives.
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We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth.
