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Quotes About Lives

The message to Georgia—and any other post-Soviet country that might have wanted to follow its example—was, If you try to ally with NATO, you will lose lives and territory and will be assured NATO limbo in perpetuity.
~ Masha Gessen
When Jesus was roaming the earth, he used powerful stories to inspire disciples to follow him and, in turn, impacted millions of lives for centuries. How
~ Matt Morris
Disease and death directly attributable to massive health care policy failure was and remains a far more real danger to American lives than any military enemy.
~ Matthew Stewart
I don't think you would just be treated like a member ofan agency. You'd be treated like an asset. And assets don't get to have lives.
~ Maureen Johnson
Toil, comrade," he said, "is the highest aim of our lives. Who does not toil, shall not eat." The book was filled. The official applied his rubber stamp to the last page. The stamp bore a globe overshadowed by a crossed sickle and hammer.
~ Ayn Rand
And so the moment we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold into a library, we've changed their lives forever, and for the better. This is an enormous force for good.
~ Barack Obama
trying to trace out my future in the lives of the people
~ Barack Obama
he insisted that I move toward the center of people's lives
~ Barack Obama
Make sure Michelle's all right with it," she said. "Not that I'm the marriage expert. And don't you dare use me as an excuse not to do it. I've got enough to deal with without feeling like everybody's putting their lives on hold. It's morbid, understand?
~ Barack Obama
Looking out on a clean plank of planet earth, we can get shaken right down to the bone by the bronze-eyed possibility of lives that are not our own.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
But it can be said that the black galaxy not only repeats and intensifies time, but also compresses so that although seventy-thousand years are in one sense quite extended, in another, they are short enough for Lena all the various sensations of her various lives.
~ Barry N. Malzberg
My mission is to live with integrity and to make a difference in the lives of others.
~ Stephen R. Covey
Habits are powerful factors in our lives. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character and produce our effectiveness… or ineffectiveness.
~ Stephen R. Covey
And leadership is even more lacking in our personal lives. We're into managing with efficiency, setting and achieving goals before we have even clarified our values.
~ Stephen R. Covey
They all deserve to die. Even you, Mrs. Lovett Even I. Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief For the rest of us death would be relief.
~ Stephen Sondheim
Coaching is a good profession for people who are genuinely devoted to making a difference in the lives of others.
~ Steve Chandler
The doctrine of a soul that outlives the body is anything but righteous, because it necessarily devalues the lives we live on this earth.
~ Steven Pinker
the political scientist James Payne suggests that ancient peoples put a low value on other people's lives because pain and death were so common in their own. This set a low threshold for any practice that had a chance of bringing them an advantage, even if the price was the lives of others.
~ Steven Pinker
Religions can also clash with humanism by valuing souls above lives, which is not as uplifting as it sounds. Belief in an afterlife implies that health and happiness are not such a big deal, because life on earth is an infinitesimal portion of one's existence;
~ Steven Pinker
I love working for the people of Indiana. I love helping our citizens make the most of their lives, but I do not love Congress.
~ Evan Bayh
The Christmas spirit - love - changes hearts and lives.
~ Pat Boone
Do we profess to love Christ? Then let us show it by our lives.
~ J. C. Ryle
That the Father and Son would love sinners that much is beyond our comprehension--but it ought to awaken a response of love and gratitude within our hearts that will change our lives forever!
~ Dave Hunt
No one wants to believe that it's all completely random, that the direction of our lives is nothing more than a complex series of accidents, little nuclear mushroom clouds, and we're just living in the fallout.
~ Jonathan Tropper