Lives Quotes
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Our lives are so dominated by financial concerns - paying the rent - and consumer choices - what sort of detergent to buy at Costco - that larger issues get subsumed into economic ones. Not just social justice, but basic issues of faith and meaning.
Campbell McGrath
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One exits with one's husband -- one lives with one's lover.
Honore de Balzac
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Kids' lives are just as important and difficult as grown ups'.
Carl Andreas Koefoed
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Bien predica quien bien vive. He preaches well who lives well.
Miguel de Cervantes
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I don't think the government should be involved in any way in people's bedrooms or lives. With so much hatred and unpleasantness in the world, why would you want to get in the way of people who love each other marrying each other?
Ben Affleck
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Neglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives.
Napoleon Hill
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Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies.
Joseph Stiglitz
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We've been around long enough that there have certainly been people at every stage of our career telling us about one or another record being influential to their lives in one way or another. It's always nice to hear that stuff.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth
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Shopping seemed to take an entirely too important place in women's lives. You never saw men milling around in men's departments. They made quick work of it. I used to wonder if shopping was a form of escape for women who had no worthwhile interests.
Mary Barnett Gilson
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I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.
Leni Riefenstahl
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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people.
Sam Ervin
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I’ve seen people where it rules their lives, you know, who want to be thinner or have bigger boobs, and how it wears them down. And I just don’t want that in my life.
Adele
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In this fast paced world it is too frequently the case that people accept what society, family members and the authorities, whom nobody ever seems to question, believe regarding how to live their lives. And yet, the happiest people I know have been those who have accepted the primary responsibility for their own spiritual and physical well-being - those who have inner strength, courage, determination, common sense and faith.
Ann Wigmore
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He will be able to get them if he lives long enough to do it. He was always a diplomat.
Jack Miller
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A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder.
Pablo Picasso
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He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.
Oscar Wilde
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I grew up in a bustling household of women with my mom, granny, and aunts. Seeing all these strong women taking charge of their lives and living it to the fullest was a great inspiration while growing up.
Twinkle Khanna
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I take what isn't mine and I covet other people's lives.
Chris Killip
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I was listening to stuff and I realized that I've had a lot of different lives. You know the theory [that says] every seven years, you have a different life? I think that's true.
Billy Joel
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I would have met Jesus sooner if not for Christians who led double lives.
Keith Green
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Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it.
Stevie Wonder
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I am not this hair, I am not this skin, I am the soul that lives within
Rumi
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Yes, hardships come. But I see in my life and in the lives of others how often something that does not have to be held as a hardship is dealt with by the mind as though it is.
Marianne Williamson
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This was the point of our lives when we found pills, uppers. That's the only way we could continue playing for so long. They were called Preludin, and you could buy them over the counter. We never thought we were doing anything wrong, but we'd get really wired and go on for days. So with beer and Preludin, that's how we survived.
Ringo Starr The Beatles