Quotes About Lives

We're the trained dogs of the spectacle…it's devoured our lives, our art, our dignity. But existence is not determined by the whim of politicians.

who says they're all criminals? -he parried- some might actually be innocent. others may need someone to explain them. there are reasons why we become the way we are, which often aren't apparent on the surface of our lives

The lives of the great majority of Russians are uncommonly personal, which makes them excellent friends and poor citizens.

My principal motive is the belief that we can still make admirable sense of our lives even if we cease to have … "an ambition of transcendence

Counting both Northerners and Southerners, more American lives were lost in the Civil War than in any other conflict.

It does not matter as much what bad is in us as what is good; not what corruptions remain but how we regard them; not what our particular failings are so much as what the thread and tenor of our lives are, for Christ's displeasure of that which is wrong in us does not turn to his hatred of us but to his victory over all of our weaknesses.

We can feel unworthy that the King of kings attends to such seemingly insignificant details in our lives. Read Matthew 6:25–34. As you think about your last week, thank Jesus for all the needs that He has met.

Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?

Well, let's see. Guardians spend all their time watching out for others, risking their lives, and wearing bad shoes. Me? I have great shoes, am currently massaging a pretty girl, and sleep in an awesome bed." I made a face. "Let's not talk about where you sleep, okay?

I never conceived of my biographies as merely telling the lives of famous men but rather as a means of illuminating their times and the great forces that shaped their times—particularly political power, since in a democracy political power has so great a role in shaping the lives of the citizens of that democracy.

Sheffield had decided, centuries back, that the saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.) "Oh

The perspective of anthropology and of ethnomethodology, and of this book, is like the perspective of a cosmopolitan art critic. It asks us to try many reality-windows instead of standing hypnotized at our habitual window all our lives.

Who hath desires must ever fearful be; Who lives in fear cannot be counted free.

People in their houses at night. These ordinary lives. Passing without their knowing it. I'd hoped to recapture something. The officer stared at him. The precious ordinary. I

People in their houses at night. These ordinary lives. Passing without their knowing it. Bid hoped to recapture something. The officer stared at him. The precious ordinary.

People in their houses at night. These ordinary lives. Passing without their knowing it. He'd hoped to recapture something. The officer stared at him. The precious ordinary.

Finn had seen in the people he'd once contended with, and sometimes even among his own colleagues - a policy in which killing was the first option rather than the last, because lives counted for nothing against the security of guaranteed silence.

I may not agree with all or even most of the tribal traditions, but it seems ti me that, out there, people live more authentic lives. They have a sturdiness about them. A refreshing humility. Hospitality too. And resilience. A sense of pride.

Nothing was ever normal again. Many lives change like that -- all of a sudden, and forever.

These are the hermit crabs, said one of the mermaids. They steal these shells and live in them so no enemies can attack them. Don't they get lonesome? asked Trot. Perhaps so, my dear. But they do not seem to mind being lonesome. They are great cowards, and think if they can but protect their lives there is nothing else to care for.

But I realize now that the toughest choices, the ones that will haunt us for the rest of our lives, are ones that my mom is still sheltering me from.

The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.

Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.

The practice of yoga has been an amazing tool to actually unearth where my inspiration lives inside my body and mind and heart.