Quotes About Lives

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

In a pharmacy toothpaste with a swastika. A mood of fear such as must have existed in France under the Jacobins. No one fears for their lives yet--but for bread and freedom.

It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people.

What brands can do brilliantly is broker change in people's lives.

What's important for me is to give my daughters a well-rounded education and a mixture of people in their lives. They'll make their own choices. I think they would be good in show business.

Space permeates everything, every moment of our lives.

Is courage just the awareness that gestures, journeys, lives have intrinsic shape, and must, one way or another, be completed?

That man indeed lives in a zone where no multiplicity can distress him and which is nevertheless the most active workshop of universal fulfillment.

Here in America either it's Faunia Farley or it's Monica Lewinsky! The luxury of these lives disquieted so by the inappropriate comportment of Clinton and Silk!

We tried to tell them what was happening. We tried to tell them the disease was spreading. We needed doctors. We needed scientists. Most of all, we needed money, and to get money, we needed attention. We put our lives in other people's hands, and for the most part, they looked at us blankly and said, What lives? What hands?

This was shortly after waking up one morning and realizing that government and god were interchangeable and that most of the people in the landscape of my birth insisted on having one or both determine the form of their lives.

Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.

The choice one makes between partners, between one man and another, stretches beyond romance. It is the choice between values, possibilities, futures, hopes, arguments (shared concepts that fit the world as you experience it), languages (shared words that fit the world as you believe it to be) and lives.

The story of Janie's progress through three marriages confronts the reader with the significant idea that the choice one makes between partners, between one man and another (or one woman and another) stretches beyond romance. It is, in the end, the choice between values, possibilities, futures, hopes, arguments (shared concepts that fit the world as you experience it), languages (shared words that fit the world as you believe it to be) and lives.

And she declared her first novel a manifesto against the "arrogance" of whites assuming that "black lives are only defensive reactions to white actions.

It amazes me there are movies about writers... such inert, uneventful lives.

It was at this time that he devised the idea of having characters reappear from novel to novel, and the first novel to use this technique was Le Père Goriot in 1834. The idea may seem simple now to modern readers, but having characters reappearing in novels over a time period creates an impression as though they have lives of their own.

Thus freedom now so seldom wakes, The only throb she gives, Is when some heart indignant breaks, To show that still she lives. THOMAS MOORE

Us with our busy, busy little lives, finding no better way to pass our years than in competitive disdain.

If you can change three lives in 10, three lives in a hundred, that's got to be good, hasn't it?

But I think there is a deeper lesson, which is that the law allows violence to settle disputes to show that violence never settles anything. Violence comes back again and again, down years and decades and centuries and so many lives.

And in the sixteen-o'clock dream the faces looked up as she bicycled overhead, looked up from their rained-on lives to say, look, oh look, look at her, isn't it wonderful, magical, marvelous

She could never look at surfers without a painful sense of another life she could have lived.

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.