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Quotes About Alive

The idea of being a widow brings the thought of your husband dying. I don't really feel that way. I have higher confidence in life after that transition. That's my thought. That's how I feel. I want to keep him alive.
~ Rita Marley
When you get John McCain going about the war against terror, he comes alive. That's when it gets fun. He rattles off the statistics, he showcases his wealth of military experience, and he doesn't recognize the concepts of defeat or surrender.
~ Mike Gallagher
Now we are showing to the world that this fighting against two terrorist groups was feasible and now we have an isolated case which doesn't mean that terrorism is alive, as it was before.
~ Alberto Fujimori
People who are going to do us harm are never going to register guns. Terrorists, you believe they're going to register guns? Why, no. Goodness, alive, are you crazy?
~ Richard Shelby
The main thing is not to be dead.
~ Robert Motherwell
The strangest part of the dream,' said Pelletier, 'was the water was alive.
~ Roberto Bolano
Then the gods realized they must create substitutes for themselves: men. But how? For them to be truly alive, a god must die.
~ Roberto Calasso
The hunt for meat is best, but any hunt is always the hunt, and one is never more alive than during the hunt.
~ Robin Hobb
There is no path to the future, Fitz. The path is now. Now is all there is, or ever will be. You can change perhaps the next breaths in your life. But after that, random chance seizes you in its jaws again. A tree falls on you, a spider bites your ankle, and all your grand plans for winning a battle are for naught. Now is what we have, Fitz, and now is where we act to stay alive.
~ Robin Hobb
No regrets, Wolf Father chided me. There is no going back to do a thing or not do a thing. There is only today. Today you must resolve to live. Each time you are given a choice, you must do the thing that will keep you alive and unhurt. Regrets are useless.
~ Robin Hobb
Pain says that you are still alive. I heeded that message and reveled in it.
~ Robin Hobb
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. —Sigmund Freud
~ Lisa Scottoline
wanted her to be alive. I had taken alive for granted. Anguish
~ Lisa Scottoline
If he lived in my time, Marcello would've been in the running for Sexiest Man Alive in People. Rich, powerful, and hotter than wasabi, he was a force. (Kindle Locations 766-767).
~ Lisa Tawn Bergren
A woman with experience keeping fool men alive might do the trick." "Des!" He convulsed to a sitting position. "What, you're the one who's been mooning after her hips for the past fortnight. So do something about it.
~ Lois McMaster Bujold
Why not admit history's power to divide and destroy? Why attach ourselves to the age-old stories in the belief that they are truer than the new ones? By living in the past, you always know what comes next, and that robs you of surprises. It exhausts and warps the mind. We are lucky simply to be alive together; why get differentiating and judgmental about who is here among us? Thank God there is anyone at all.
~ Lorrie Moore
Because everything was alive, responsive in its own way, capable of being hurt in its own way, capable of punishment in its own way, Zhaanat's thinking was built on treating everything around her with great care.
~ Louise Erdrich
He rolled the trolley away and fetched the wine, which Mrs. Combie had kept in the hot kitchen to warm a little more after it had been shown in its cradle to Charles and carefully uncorked. "Let it breathe a few moments," Vincent had said, and Lovejoy had looked at it, not daring to touch it; she had not known wine was alive.
~ Rumer Godden
In the end I sort of though we created a companion who was so alive and dynamic and so wedded to the doctor that you'd need a whole universe to contain her in. The only way to get rid of her is to send her into a parallel world from which she can never return; otherwise she would stay with the doctor forever.
~ Russell T. Davies
When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder. Jiko says that this is an example of the time being. Sound and no-sound. Thunder and silence.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Finally I achieved my goal and resolved my childhood obsession with now because that's what a drum does. When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you're breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder. Jiko says that this is an example of the time being. Sound and no-sound. Thunder and silence.
~ Ruth Ozeki
I still accept an imperative of knowledge, through which men may be influenced, but then it must come alive in me, and this is what I now recognize as the most important of all. This is what my soul thirsts for as the African deserts thirst for water. This is what I need to live, a completely human life and not merely one of knowledge
~ Soren Kierkegaard
You be respectable, sister," she said, "Me, I'll be alive.
~ Salman Rushdie
He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
~ Evelyn Waugh