Quotes About Lived

To me, the contemporary novel suffers from a lack of sense of place - or spirit of place, if you will. It's not important to most writers, I must assume, or they try to research a given background on sabbatical. Not for me. I write about places I've lived long before I ever set pen to paper.

Love is a dynamic interaction, lived every second of our lives, all of our lives.

Fashion, like architecture, inheres in the darkness of the lived moment, belongs to the dream consciousness of the collective.

I lived a block and a half away from four cousins, and I had three siblings. The Jaeger home was a big, messy, happy family.

The hero's journey software in our heads is demanding to be lived out. The blanks are insisting on being filled in.

Or maybe desire kicked in when it pleased without noticing the rules we lived and died by.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced. That's what good pop music is all about, pop music that does reach out to people. It's very personalized and very real, honest and sincere.

Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone.

Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced.

I believe the most useful knowledge about human behavior is based on people's lived experiences.

To me, what defines a New Yorker is the edge that one develops from having actually lived here. Once you have it, it doesn't go away, and everywhere else in the world feels like it is in slow motion.

As a teenager, I felt so hemmed in and trapped, both by the place I lived and the expectations others had about school, college, and a future career.

So, how close are love and genius, really? We know that they are both mentioned far more than lived.

It was just crazy opportunity to see that whole world and the competitions that we had in the film, like Long Beach, it was just crazy and so much fun. I felt like I lived all those moments in the movie.

Fate is fickle, and the company of unwilling friends short lived.

T]hese people lived close to the ground, if you will, and the natural world filled their lives. Creation was a lived reality for them prior to the development of specific ideas about creation.

I watched all these movies like 'King Kong' and 'Godzilla' when I was growing up, and the fact that dinosaurs actually lived on this earth, the fact that they are not fake, made them very fascinating.

so be proactive in seeking information from many, always prioritizing those who have fresh-lived experience of the job market.

There is, in every event, whether lived or told, always a hole or a gap, often more than one. If we allow ourselves to get caught in it, we find it opening onto a void that, once we have slipped into it, we can never escape.

Evangelical spirituality focuses, subjectively, on the "with-God" life in all of its lived dimensions. It concerns the manner by which we live in communion with Christ in response to the Spirit in pursuit of holiness resulting in service to others.

There is no struggle too vast, no odds too over- whelming, for even should we fail – should we fall – we will know that we have lived.' Anomander