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Quotes About Lives

They were too melodramatic, they had a dimension that was not the dimension of our lives. We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.
~ Margaret Atwood
Because we have no history I construct one for you making use of what there is, parts of other people's lives, paragraphs I invent, now and then an object, a watch, a picture you claim as yours
~ Margaret Atwood
Our quest for a Digital India is all encompassing. It is going to touch your lives in several ways, making it easier.
~ Narendra Modi
The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and ... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to manipulate or enslave us.
~ Rebecca MacKinnon
I do not trust technology. I mean, I don't think we're in any danger of kids, you know, doing without video games in the future, but I am saying that their lives are largely out of balance.
~ Richard Louv
Technology is a global thing and wherever you go, people are prodding the same devices and worrying in the same way and have had their lives slightly altered in the same way.
~ Charlie Brooker
I LOVE my job. Having a front row seat to watch lives change because of others generosity is amazing! So thankful.
~ Pete Wilson
Up and down our lives obedient Walk, dear Christ, with footsteps radiant, Till those garden lives shall be Fair with duties done for Thee; And our thankful spirits say, "Christ arose on Easter Day."
~ Phillips Brooks
All across America, we gather this week with the people we love to give thanks to God for the blessings in our lives.
~ George W. Bush
Take some time to learn first aid and CPR. It saves lives, and it works.
~ Bobby Sherman
Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And like most middle-aged people who hear the clock ticking in their lives, I had come to resent a waste or theft of my time that was greater than any theft of my goods or money.
~ James Lee Burke
The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
~ Tavis Smiley
There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.
~ Ann Rule
Anne Brontë brings into full focus the expropriated, estranged nature of women's lives. Helen can call neither her home nor her name her own. Wildfell Hall is a feminist manifesto of revolutionary power and intelligence.
~ Anne Bronte
hope, as Chesterton said, is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate. Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong.
~ Anne Lamott
and hope, as Chesterton said, is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate. Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong.
~ Anne Lamott
The grotesque remains of incomplete lives, the embodied complexity of desires eternally denied
~ Anne Michaels
Their lives are interconnected like thorny vines forever circling and recircling the same tree. Your life might have nothing to do with their bitter struggle.
~ Anne Rice
There were hours when only the city talked to me, the great clattering, rattling, rustling city of New York, with its traffic forever clanking, even in the thickest snow, with its layers upon layers of voices and lives rising up to the plateau on which I lay, and then beyond it, vastly beyond it in towers such as the world before this time has never beheld.
~ Anne Rice
There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet. Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading—that is a good life.
~ Annie Dillard
I think perhaps the reincarnation is not of other men through me, but of myself at other times. I've been forced by circumstance into many separate lives.
~ Sebastian Faulks
God's glory is our manifesting his heart and character through our lives and choices.
~ Shawn Bolz
Together we can save American lives, American jobs, and American futures.
~ Donald Trump