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Quotes About Lives

From aerial robotics to big data analytics, technology presents the opportunity to expedite and magnify the impact of humanitarian relief efforts through greater efficiency and responsiveness: reaching more people, sooner, more cost-effectively, and saving more lives.
~ Tae Yoo
It seems very clear to me that we, in the West, cannot afford to continue assuming propriety over the world's resources in a careless, greedy way without paying for it - not only with the lives of our loved ones, but also with our souls.
~ Alexandra Fuller
The fans own the records and listen to them and love them. It becomes the soundtrack to some part of their lives, and we don't control that. To me, that's what's exciting about what we do.
~ Chris Cornell
It is ridiculous to think we can erase racism in South Africa, but through theater there can be a genuine attempt to move on with our lives and build a better country.
~ John Kani
Just as with the Miss South Africa platform, I understand the responsibility of being Miss Universe and the impact it has on millions of lives.
~ Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters
I am grateful to President George W. Bush for PEPFAR, which is saving the lives of millions of people in poor countries and to both Presidents Bush for the work we've done together after the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and the Haitian earthquake.
~ William J. Clinton
Why did we go to war? Why did we pick people from South Carolina, California, and all the places in between to go to a foreign land and risk their lives and have some die? To make sure that Saddam Hussein could do no more damage to the region or us than he has already done.
~ Lindsey Graham
The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.
~ Jean-Marie Le Pen
Mindset fuels behavior... Great lives, great relationships, great businesses, and great love stories are cultivated from within.
~ Steve Maraboli
A person's disposition should serve as a narrative of their lives not the pigmentation of their skin.
~ Henry Johnson Jr, Liberian Son
History is about ordinary people living their ordinary lives, just as we do today, while all around the world is changing. It makes heroes out of some people and victims out of others.
~ Vicky Adin
The sky can never be frozen because its vastness has chosenall warmth of our lives as we look abovewith unbreakable hearts armoured in love
~ Munia Khan
I love the possibility that anything can happen in any moment with acting. That you have the opportunity to experience lives and adventures that you may not have otherwise.
~ Genevieve Cortese
today we depend on the press for such essentially human things as gossip and anecdotes and we care about the private lives of people in very remote places.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
grammar is something people without anything more exciting to do in their lives codify into a book. While
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
later—unlike gardeners, who understand rather well that pruning trees strengthens them. Likewise peace—some kind of forced, constrained, non-natural peace—may be costly in lives: just
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I have a penchant, an appetite for writing lives, even unhappy ones, in the course of which the person holds on to a certain dignity up to the end, in spite of the disappointments, the things unfinished, the suffering…
~ Natalie Zemon Davis
It is human nature to take the most magical of worlds for granted, turning each one into a blank canvas upon which to paint the lives of those who would live there. Only an outsider can see a world's wonders for what they truly are.
~ Neal Shusterman
no concept of danger, reality, flow or compassion. you can feel the despair escaping from their machines, their lives as hopeless and as numbed as yours.
~ Charles Bukowski
Most of these men's lives were so tortured that I enjoyed reading about them, thinking, well, I am in hell too and I can't even write music.
~ Charles Bukowski
we were never meant to be what we are or where we are, we are looking for an escape, some music from the sun, the girl we never found. we are betting on the miracle again there before the purple mountains as the horses parade past so much more beautiful than our lives.
~ Charles Bukowski
people are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice…
~ Charles Bukowski
God constantly uses the lives of Bible characters to teach us, to encourage us, to warn us.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
outrageously accurate simulations of long-dead lives, annealed until their written corpus matches that inherited from the presingularity era in the form of chicken scratchings on mashed tree pulp
~ Charles Stross