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Quotes About Alive

boiling Mr. Wolff alive was quite outside the realm of 'reasonable force' and the fact that the large pan of water would have taken at least six hours to reach boiling point strongly indicated premeditation.
~ Jasper Fforde
I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive, you were the winner.
~ Jean-Claude Izzo
Objects should not touch because they are not alive. You use them, put them back in place, you live among them: they are useful, nothing more. But they touch me, it is unbearable. I am afraid of being in contact with them as though they were living beasts.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
The prophecy of a world moving toward political unity is the light which guides all that is best, most vigorous, most truly alive in the work of our time.
~ Walter Lippmann
Every day is intense and alive, whether it's travel, work, even down time, which there is so little of.
~ Josh Lucas
I come alive when I'm painting. I like to work in oils and acrylics, and the full sensory engagement and self-expression is very stimulating to me.
~ Carmen Ejogo
Oliver Stone's strategy is to unnerve the actors so as to make them alert and alive.
~ Claire Danes
The culture of philanthropy is alive and very well in Africa. International aid strengthens and extends it, but in the communities where I have spent time, it is all-pervasive.
~ Ann Cotton
Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.
~ Walker Percy
I am incredibly lucky to be alive because one in three people who have strokes don't make it.
~ Chris Tarrant
There's always a risk that something goes wrong, like a structural failure. But you have confidence in the whole system and the measures that have gone into place to minimize the risk. Sometimes you land when your knees are clanking together and you say you're lucky to be alive. But you are - and you move on.
~ Jared Isaacman
There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind--wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place.
~ Toni Morrison
It is your only way home, my brother! And maybe our only way out of here alive.
~ Tracy Hickman
The Weather In Space Is God being pure force? The wind Or what commands it? When our lives slow And we can hold all that we love, it sprawls In our laps like a gangly doll. When the storm Kicks up and nothing is ours, we go chasing After all we're certain to lose, so alive --- Faces radiant with panic.
~ Tracy K. Smith
We saw to the edge of all there is - So brutal and alive it seemed to comprehend us back.
~ Tracy K. Smith
I am alive in 21st Century America. I have a voice. Let it serve as a corrective to the violent and reckless power that stands against the force of love.
~ Tracy K. Smith
That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.
~ Tracy Kidder
My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive. I'm just grateful to be here at all.
~ Travis Barker
Peril thought her mother was dead. How would she react when she found out it was Kestrel — and she was still alive?
~ Tui T. Sutherland
Hailstorm is alive?" Winter cried.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
And then Winter pushed him inside and doors began slamming shut all around them, as the SandWings locked themselves in and waited to be buried alive.
~ Tui T. Sutherland
At that time I attached a perhaps undue importance to staying alive, and I became moderately proficient with both the pistol and the small-sword.
~ Patrick O'Brian
The spirit of resistance to government," Jefferson wrote, "is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
~ Paul Graham
The future belongs to the one most fully alive in the present.
~ Paul Palnik