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Quotes About Lives

So I got up, went down to the number 1 train, and rode in a car full to brimming over with commuters going from the jobs that they didn't want back to the lives they hadn't bargained for.
~ Walter Mosley
The children of the 1960's that you call the 'Manson Family' wanted to stop a war and turn the government and world to peace. They gave their lives when they took lives and they knew it.
~ Charles Manson
the writer liked machines and people who work with machines, he respected what they do, and he wrote poems showing that the lives of engineers and miners and pilots have their own excitement and romance.
~ Charles Sheffield
I happen to believe America is dying of loneliness, and we as people have are into the stream of convenience and turn away from our deep lives.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Corruption is worse than terrorism. Terrorists blow up existing infrastructure such as roads, airports and power plants. Corruption prevents such infrastructure from being created in the first place. Terrorists take innocent lives. Corrupt politicians prevent hospitals from being built, which means that innocent lives that could be saved are not.
~ Chetan Bhagat
During National Cancer Control Month, let us remember those who lost their battle with cancer, and let us renew our efforts to save lives and spare heartbreak by reaching a future without this devastating disease.
~ Barack Obama, 2016
2 Teach is 2 Touch lives 4 Ever
~ Author Unknown
and one of the regulations indicates that they were always cautious in expressing opinions of one another or of those outside of the organization, and they were not critical of the lives or affairs of the people they were trying to reform or assist. They also adhered strictly to one of their laws: "Judge not—lest ye be judged also.
~ H. Spencer Lewis
Precisely because heaven is already present on earth, the moral lives of Christians on earth are to reflect their heavenly participation.
~ Hans Boersma
Take The Walk is not about individuals becoming great in order to impact the world, it is about discovering the greatness of individuals as they use what they already have to touch the lives of the dying, sick and poor. It is about normal people with careers, families, and responsibilities, asking 'How can what I already do and what I already am make a difference in lives half a world away?
~ Hanson
More than any other human problem, loneliness, the absence of meaningful human connection, drains the joy and the sense of purpose from our lives.
~ Harold S. Kushner
Self-rejection is the most universal and least recognized problem in our lives. It is the source of all our difficulties in giving and receiving love.
~ Harville Hendrix
Water is so vital and healthy because it is the filtered lives of purer beings from other planets and even God himself.
~ Heather Lydia Thornhill
He didn't give me any choice. Don't you see? Your futures, your lives, would have been ruined. But if he was dead, the FBI had no case. You had a chance of coming out of this unscathed.
~ Lee Goldberg
Dramatic irony is a cruel occurrence, one that is almost always upsetting and I'm sorry to have it appear in this story, but Violet, Klaus, and Sunny have such unfortunate lives that it was only a matter of time before dramatic irony would rear its ugly head.
~ Lemony Snicket
window of the train and gazed at the gloomy blackness of the Finite Forest, wondering if their lives would ever get any
~ Lemony Snicket
Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.
~ James Thurber
Alas, the pandemic has produced many heroes, like the doctors, nurses, and health care workers who risk--and too often lose--their lives as they battle tirelessly to save others.
~ Jane Goodall
There are many truths you know that you are not aware of. Be still and listen to your inner voice. You are too busy with exterior things. If there is one thing only I could tell you it would be this. Be still—listen—listen to the voices within you that you have not listened to. You have lived many lives. Some of you will live more lives in this reality. You have gained much wisdom, but you do not listen.
~ Jane Roberts
In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author's life, but they move on from there. In poetry, especially confessional poetry but in other poetry as well, the poet is not writing characters so much as emotional truth wrapped in metaphor. Bam! Pow! A shot to the gut.
~ Jane Yolen
As we progress as a species, we will unlock new means for enhancing our lives at every turn - and our conceptions of wealth and poverty will evolve in tandem.
~ Joe Lonsdale
Genes are mysterious things, still unpredictable after all of our research, flecks of humanity that can destroy lives but, just as often, can teach us to appreciate the strange wonder of our existence.
~ Monica Hesse
I just thought it was unconscionable for the Congress to insert itself into this debate. We are particularly unqualified to make that decision and to intrude ourselves into the lives of this family.
~ Gary Ackerman
I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you can learn to do that well is by really understanding the lives of real people.
~ Robert J. Sawyer