Lives Quotes
How we remember changes how we have lived. Time runs both ways. We make stories of our lives.
How we live our lives gives those we love permission to do the same. That is a power and a responsibility that we can never take lightly.
There is no entity in the world that controls our lives more than the Federal Reserve System
If we reverse the outer shell and the essence--in other words, consider the outer shell the essence and the essence only the shell--our lives might be a whole lot easier to understand.
the unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives.
The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives.
The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love.
In our lives, when we do not create something out of total honesty, it cannot last long.
We have used up all our inherited freedom, like the young bird the albumen in the egg. It is not an era of repose. If we would save our lives, we must fight for them.
If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.
We never exchange more than three words with a Friend in our lives on that level to which our thoughts and feelings almost habitually rise.
The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth.
Ninety-nine one-hundredths of our lives we are mere hedgers and ditchers, but from time to time we meet with reminders of our destiny.
The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams.
What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.
Dream study impacts culture. We are put in touch with the inner poet who dreams. We hear our inner, subjective response to the outer world. That helps spiritualize our lives.
Every hour spent on the Caine was a great hour in all our lives-if you don't think so now you will later on, more and more.
It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women around you have these distinct phases.
If Hollywood and Bollywood were how we all lived our lives, that would surprise me. And yet it's often the way our cultures are conveyed, isn't it?
Oh, if I had only known, if I had only been ready, our lives can really be the great adventure we so passionately want them to be.
We have every reason in time and eternity to rejoice and give thanks for the quality of our lives and the blessings we have been given.
I wish we could edit our lives, be more selective with whom we spend time and what we spend our money on. To appreciate more what we all have - we appreciate things more when we lose them.
Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back!
I believe our lives are important when we learn something and love. I really want to capture the meaning of experience.
None of us really understood exactly how much Star Wars would affect us for the rest of our lives.
My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.
May we dedicate our lives to serving the Lord and not worry about offending the devil.
Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do you deal with it?
Did I want a dog? No. Did I need a dog? Also no. We were six kids running for our lives, not knowing where our next meal was coming from. Could we afford to feed a dog? Wait for it—no.
Because our lives are cowardly and sly, Because we do not dare to take or give, Because we scowl and pass each other by, We do not live; we do not dare to live.
For the first time in our lives, I’m somewhere she can’t find, and I don’t have the map to give her that leads to me.
So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are possible. The pain of that is behind the second stanza of this poem.
Until we find the meaning of the stories in our lives we're destined to wander in a wilderness even though we're in a promised land.
We need to expect to pay a price if we want to make our lives better, but more importantly, we need to expect to pay a price for just leaving things as they are.
But now I've got a young son and his interest is in science and now when I talk to him, I see that in the science sphere of our lives there is new, there is progress.
We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.
There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.
We all fantasize about a relationship we'd like to do over or something we'd like to change about our past. I think there are a lot more opportunities for second chances in our lives than we think.
Today we are all speeding under the golden arms of the arches into our city, into our lives, into the world that is a stream of information, ceaselessly collected and projected.