Lives Quotes - page 3

Capital is dead labor,that vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. (Karl Marx)
A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person. View quote
Milan Kundera
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large. View quote
Plutarch
Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue! View quote
Eugene O'Neill
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. View quote
Eugene O'Neill
Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy. View quote
Don Tapscott
I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know? View quote
Charlie Sheen
We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives. View quote
William Glasser
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever. View quote
John Updike
There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens. (Martin Van Buren)
Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Society lives by faith, and develops by science. View quote
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them. View quote
William James
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance. View quote
Herbert Spencer
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away. View quote
Gene Roddenberry
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them. View quote
Joseph Addison
Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born. Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives completely devoid of self-consciousness. (Helen Hayes)
Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. View quote
Colette
A good book should leave you.... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. View quote
William Styron
Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. View quote
Alex Haley