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We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
— Jean Anouilh
History was like looking into others' lives, learning how they lived, what they did, how they thought, and even how they loved.
— Max Vos
Obviously the choices of other people affect our lives, but we are the primary creators of our experience.
— Shepherd Hoodwin
The pilgrims chant with every minute subtracted from their lives. This is their sacrifice.
— Alan Lightman
... feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them.
— Louisa May Alcott
as our lives become less and less genuine, we require bigger and bigger thrills to scare us, for just a moment, into feeling human again.
— Johnny Truant
It would be right to say that the helicopter's role in saving lives represents one of the most glorious pages in the history of human flight.
— Igor Sikorsky
The depressed man lives in a depressed world.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can change their lives.
— Kid Cudi
To the degree that God gives us the grace to see Him, our lives and our ministries will become fruitful and effective.
— Bill Mills
I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart.
— Francine Rivers
Liz looked back and counted the bodies, all those lives she had ruined simply by existing. So she chose to stop existing.
— Amy Zhang
One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.
— John M. McHugh
Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
— Ian Thorpe
After a while the middle-aged person who lives in her head begins to talk to her soul, the kid.
— Anne Lamott
Half of the world lives on [about] $2 a day. If there is a hungry kid in the world, we shouldn't consider ourselves more evolved than homo habilis.
— Shakira
A person who cares deeply about what people need in their lives is someone I'll never forget.
— Kent McCord
Life is about choices; it's not about excuses. Excuses only trap us into believing that we cannot take control of our own lives.
— Michael Gerber
We can't go on apologizing all our lives, you know.
— Nick Hornby
Even during the worst hardships, when the other things in our lives seem to fall apart, we can still find peace in the eternal love of God.
— Armstrong Williams
They did not know what we can now sense as we contemplate the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it shows in our lives ...
— Franz Kafka
Our lives can change with every breath we take.
— Billie Letts
We live our lives by measures of weeks, months, years, but the creatures we truly are, those are exposed in fractions of moments.
— Joshua Gaylord
Their lives are what hold meaning. Dying is simple. Living for something is much harder.
— Mark T. Barnes
We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend
our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature. — Dale E. Turner
our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature. — Dale E. Turner
Later, that dozy embrace solidified in his memory as the single moment of artless, charmed happiness in their separate and difficult lives.
— Annie Proulx
Beth's not on that train?"
"Nope. She's not even in that station, that town, or that part of whatever country your metaphor lives in. — J.R. Ward
"Nope. She's not even in that station, that town, or that part of whatever country your metaphor lives in. — J.R. Ward
I think fear keeps people in mundane lives. Fear of freedom, fear of loneliness; it's a powerful opium.
— John Harris
I have spent more than a decade trying to improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable people on earth, and they've taught me countless lessons.
— Howard Graham Buffett
It is the stories of REAL PEOPLE living REAL LIVES that will define out generation.
— Marilyn R. Wilson
Many people who have lost jobs ... find that this was God's way of redirecting their lives.
— Billy Graham
Becoming a Leader of Character changes lives - our lives and the lives of the people we touch.
— Dave Anderson
A man who lives unrelated to other human beings dies. But a man who lives unrelated to himself also dies.
— Anais Nin
The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit.
— Renae Jones
We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt.
— Melody Beattie
Every society clings to a myth by which it lives. Ours is the myth of economic growth.
— Tim Jackson
If you believe that goodness lives on forever, then you might also believe that death is but temporary.
— Val Edward Simone
Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
Like season'd timbered, never gives;
But though the whole world turn to coal,
Then chiefly lives. — George Herbert
Like season'd timbered, never gives;
But though the whole world turn to coal,
Then chiefly lives. — George Herbert
Together with the rise of the internet, September 11 and its aftermath has changed most of our lives.
— Hedi Slimane
Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives
— Charlotte Gray
Good is that darkening of our lives,
Which only God can brighten;
But better still that hopeless load,
Which none but God can lighten. — Frederick William Faber
Which only God can brighten;
But better still that hopeless load,
Which none but God can lighten. — Frederick William Faber
Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.
— Walter Lippmann
Miracles happen. They have happened to me and they are happening to you. You need only look to the people in your lives in order to see them.
— Brooke Ellison
The cross has two sides to it. One side is what Jesus did for us. He forgave us our sins. The other is the God side. God now lives in man!
— John Paul Warren
Is that what I've been doing all these years? cutting my path though life? All the blood spilled and lives taken, just verses in a song?
— Anthony Ryan
A man of wisdom knows that life is an illusion, so he lives a life of love and happiness as his mission.
— Debasish Mridha
Our lives are spent sailing in the mist, hoping for a burst of sunlight that can make sense of who we are.
— David Gemmell
Too many Christians live their lives like slaves - to the devil - because they believe his lies more than they trust God.
— Joyce Meyer
So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.
— Sarah Orne Jewett
You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.
— Stephen Chbosky
People don't find the personal lives of people with much, much more power than any celebrity would have - don't find their personal lives interesting.
— Robert Pattinson
Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.
— Bernie Siegel
Most of us don't live our lives with one, integrated self that meets the world, we're a whole bunch of selves.
— Christopher Moore
God has given his law so that we will experience, not earn, the good he intends for our lives.
— Bryan Chapell
The voice of the Almighty speaks most profoundly in such things as lives in silence themselves.
— Cormac McCarthy
The person lives most beautifully who does not reflect upon existence
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by ... not paying attention?
— Joshua Foer
The sin we need to be concerned about is the sin in our own lives. It's the root of all human woe, the source of anguish.
— Francine Rivers
If a child lives with acceptance and friendship, he learns to find love in the world
— Dorothy Nolte
The young have hopes and dreams, while the old hold the remains of them in their hands and wonder what has happened to their lives.
— Tan Twan Eng
Their lives full of canned, mutilated laughter.
— Charles Bukowski
Voicing out your concerns in a calmly way is a great thing to do and it helps and saves lives of those who can't speak up.
— Euginia Herlihy
I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.
— Greg Iles
This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives; the one we live on Earth and the one we live in our books.
— Chrys Fey
But I like who I became just fine. That's the way life is. We all try to make something out of our lives, and some of us are just luckier than others.
— Jimmy Buffett
Some live in poverty but with their honor; some live in wealth but with no honor! Some lives are respectable, some are disgraceful!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
I love the process of creating a story that will resonate in my readers lives ~ either inspiring them, educating them, or entertaining them.
— Kathryn Albright
That is what happens when a person lives alone for so long - no one else can change their ways.
— Catherynne M Valente
We're doomed to be do-gooders for the rest of our lives and doomed to fail. But, happily, truth is a relative business.
— Jo Nesbo
How does it happen? At what point is she born, the baffled, wounded adult of tomorrow? Is eleven what we react to for the rest of our lives?
— Kyo Maclear
The doc showed no hint he had trouble taking lives.
— Ellen Connor
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
— Henry David Thoreau
Whether true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and particularly on their destinies, as what they do.
— Victor Hugo
Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.
— Helen Reddy
He measures our lives by how we love.
— Francis Chan
Too many of us leave our lives - and, in fact, our souls - behind when we go to work.
— Arianna Huffington
Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive.
— Eknath Easwaran
Everything I do in my life I do to make my mum and dad proud. I want to carry on in my dad's footsteps and make sure that his legacy lives on forever.
— Bindi Irwin
The truest measure of success is successity: enriching lives positively.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
The more a person perceives that he/she is loved, the less they will interfere with the lives of others.
— William Glasser
But life isn't like that. You can't be sure how it's going to come out, even if you do everything right. They turn around on you, lives do.
— Ava Dellaira
He ( Former Indian Prez, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam) let them touch his hand and in return, touched their lives.
— Andy Paula
Our house is made of glass ... and our lives are made of glass; and there is nothing we can do to protect ourselves.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Love must become a practical activity. It should be the meaning and the purpose of our lives
— Sunday Adelaja
I think many people, especially from other cultures, just don't understand the role hair plays in black women's lives.
— Solange Knowles