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Quotes About Lives

As a public official and being so highly visible, I have a responsibility to make it very clear that those people who will have cancer at one point in their lives will be able to function.
~ Lindy Boggs
The danger of dioxins in our environment, our food chain, and our bodies is difficult to illustrate, since they are not visible to the naked eye. My time in Vietnam allowed me to see the result of large quantities of them and therefore understand better the insidiousness of the smaller quantities that have found their way into our lives and bodies.
~ Jeremy Irons
We can never thank David Stern enough. His vision to use basketball to improve the quality of our lives to make this world a better and saner place, that guy, is the most important man in the history of basketball.
~ Bill Walton
Through the ghoul-guarded gateways of slumber, Past the wan-mooned abysses of night, I have lived o'er my lives without number, I have sounded all things with my sight.
~ Unknown
Higher needs are often met in indirect ways. What we really need is time, mental space, understanding, a level of engagement with the minds and lives of others.
~ John Armstrong
They looked at each other in absolute horror, as if they knew that they couldn't possibly control the chain of events set in place by that simple, inevitable meeting. The lives they had lived until that moment had come to an end. And then it didn't matter what happened next, their destinies were already decided.
~ John Boyne
I'm educating strangers on how they can live better lives. And making sure that those with the wrong opinions are held to account.
~ John Boyne
To put significance in our stories, we must also take action. Being passive may feel safe. If you do nothing, nothing can go wrong. But while inaction cannot fail, it cannot succeed either. We can wait, and hope, and wish, but if we do, we miss the stories our lives could be.
~ John C. Maxwell
I am proud to represent these men and women who empower people in developing nations and promote the Peace Corps mission of peace and friendship. These volunteers are making major strides to improve the lives of people and communities around the world.
~ Kenny Marchant
I support the death penalty because I believe, if administered swiftly and justly, capital punishment is a deterrent against future violence and will save other innocent lives.
~ George W. Bush
Death, is a beautiful conclusion to these short stories, that which we have so interestingly entitled, lives.
~ Unknown
The souls of men are not measured by what they have done, but by what they leave behind.
~ Anonymous
Design is a tool that allows us to reach out and inspire, to touch others and help make lives magic and wonderful
~ Marcel Wanders
When we better understand the realities of these women's lives, we are able to design and deliver solutions that are more useful to them.
~ Melinda Gates
I have an activist's desire to improve people's lives.
~ Bill de Blasio
May Knowledge reshape your lives so that your greater destiny may come into view
~ Marshall Vian Summers
Since the beginning, the Fates determined which souls would be born, what kinds of lives they would live, and for how many days. They did this out of duty, out of destiny, and without emotion.
~ Unknown
The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each individual.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
I really do believe that education, despite this massive potential in transforming human lives, has not received the kind of attention that people should have given to it.
~ Amartya Sen
I write about everyday people, everyday lives.
~ John Rzeznik
We want to play a great a role as possible in making sure this country lives up to the expectations.
~ Beto O'Rourke
In Washington you legislate, but at home you touch people's lives; that's what I try to do when I go there.
~ Jacky Rosen
People with nine lives are very important and very rare. They only happen when, for one reason or another, there are no counterparts of them living in any other world. Then the lives that would have been spread out over a whole set of worlds get concentrated in one person. And so do all the talents that those other eight people might have had.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
We will follow the bullet trajectories backwards to the lives that occupy the shadows, actual men who moan in their dreams.
~ Don DeLillo