Lives Quotes - page 2

Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. (Saul Bellow)
Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity. View quote
Jane Goodall
Unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, man does not lose his being in the society in which he lives. Man's life is independent. He is born not for the development of the society alone, but for the development of his self. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. View quote
Jimmy Carter
People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead. View quote
James Baldwin
He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no man lives forever, That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea. (Algernon Charles Swinburne)
Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives. View quote
Thomas S. Monson
Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives. View quote
Bertrand Russell
If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives. View quote
Marlon Brando
He that lives upon hope will die fasting. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Our lives teach us who we are. View quote
Salman Rushdie
Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. View quote
Erma Bombeck
It's funny how songs change our lives, right? View quote
Jared Leto
The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation. (Peter Ustinov)
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. View quote
Mark Twain
Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live. View quote
Charles Bukowski
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. View quote
Frank Herbert
Who lives longer? the man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time. View quote
Aldous Huxley
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