Quotes About Lives

There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed, but... in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.

There's no way that music could ever go down the tubes. I can't imagine a civilization without music. When you realize today that music is such a part of people's lives. And will always be, really.

I am officially a doctor, and believe it or not, I can save lives and tune certain instruments and can beat peasants with a stick.

My concept of government's role in people's lives is that it is limited but legitimate, and essential when people have nowhere else to turn.

The E.P.A. is too important to treat like a reality TV show. People's lives and our country's resources are at stake.

But really, it was reading that led me to writing. And in particular, reading the American classics like Twain who taught me at an early age that ordinary lives of ordinary people can be made into high art.

People are living such miserable lives economically. They want the escape. They want the fantasy. They'd love the dream of being king for a day or queen for a day.

Family, community, and the realm of the private self - your mind, body, and spirit - are all important sources of the inspiration, support, and ideas we all need to lead the lives we want.

Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.

In all of our lives, we know some boring people, but we don't want to see them on television. In our families, we have some very odd people who have odd neurosis. All of us are really strange people.

We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.'

Children are so egocentric - they want to watch their lives, and not yours.

The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people's lives, not just their own bank balances.

I think people do want to relate their entertainment to what's going on in their lives. Not everything.

Only those who would be called upon to risk their lives for their country should have the privilege of voting to determine whether the nation should go to war.

Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.

Millions of people in nearly 80 countries still live in fear of landmines and explosive remnants of war, which take an unacceptable toll on lives and limbs, and people's livelihoods

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

While systematic racism infects processes and affects lives all over America, Southern awareness of history makes it impossible to ignore. Moreover, the influence of the South on American political culture is disproportionate to the size of the region. Focusing on the Deep South is not a matter of ignoring the rest of the country, but

Do any of us ever outgrow those old childhood hurts, or do they gnaw and fester in our spirits the whole length of our lives?

Not if we blow it up," Gale says brusquely. His intent, his full intent, becomes clear. Gale has no interest in preserving the lives of those in the Nut. No interest in caging the pray for later use. This is one of his death traps.

People have asked me what it was like to be on that stage, where I had lived so many lives, knowing it was the last time. Did my whole career pass through my mind in a flash? No, it didn't. It was not a memorial, it was a celebration. I felt like Cinderella at the ball, and I had been there all my life. It was roses without thorns.

I care much more about saving the lives of mothers and babies than I do about a fancy museum somewhere.

I'm always really interested in different environments and how they affect people's lives and what it would be like to live somewhere else.