Top 100 Lives Not Quotes
#1. None of these devices address that women keep track of many people's lives, not just their own.
Anita Borg
#2. Companies can add value and simultaneously promote themselves if their product or service truly improves the lives of their customers. I mean really improve lives, not wishful thinking, rationalization. That's the acid test.
Guy Kawasaki
#3. A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities.
Terence McKenna
#4. The power of belief is that is should change lives not create chains.
Johnnie Dent Jr.
#5. There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#6. Jesus speaks in the silence of the mystery of the Eucharist and reminds us each time that following him means going out of ourselves and making our lives not something we 'possess,' but a gift to him and to others.
Pope Francis
#7. Babies are never suicidal. Hard lives, not hard boiled eggs do that.
Brian Spellman
#8. We conclude, therefore, that a Christian lives not in himself, but in Christ and in his neighbor. Otherwise he is not a Christian. He lives in Christ through faith, in his neighbor through love. By faith he is caught up beyond himself into God. By love he descends beneath himself into his neighbor.
Martin Luther
#9. For anyone who loves intensely lives not in himself but in the object of his love, and the further he can move out of himself into his love, the happier he is.
Desiderius Erasmus
#10. If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much; you'll save lives, not only your own, but the enemy's too.
Curtis LeMay
#11. The purpose of medical schooling was to teach how to save lives, not how to tend to their demise.
Atul Gawande
#12. I think people do want to relate their entertainment to what's going on in their lives. Not everything.
Richard Gere
#13. We then spend our lives not seeing what we saw. The picture is there: what we know when we're small; when we are small, we know everything in a childlike way.
Helene Cixous
#14. The reality is the technology exists now to extend life and have people live healthier, happier lives. Not to be kind of immortal - that's not what I'm talking about.
Bill Maris
#15. But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,
Lives not alone immured in the brain;
But, with the motion of all elements,
Courses as swift as thought in every power,
And gives to every power a double power,
Above their functions and their offices.
William Shakespeare
#16. Failure comes into our lives not to fail us, but it comes to make us wiser and stronger through the lessons of life.
Debasish Mridha
#17. Two of the central ingredients to our family are food and faith, so sitting down together and thanking God for the food He's provided means everything to us. Prayer is a natural part of our lives - not only around the dinner table, but all day long.
Phil Robertson
#18. 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.
James Patterson
#19. I do know that as the novel takes shape on the page, it's hard for characters' lives not to intersect with the writer's own life. As we unpack our characters' stories and actions, it's hard not to unpack our own history.
Jacqueline Woodson
#20. Who make not friends with sinful, lives not away from hope futilely,
Who outrages not another's wife and betrays not arrogance surely;
Who never commits any theft or never shows ingratitude certainly,
And never indulges in drinking is a person who is always happy.
[99] - 33 Mahatma Vidur
Munindra Misra
#21. Great people have a vision of their lives that they practice emulating each and every day. They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives.
Michael Gerber
#22. It wasn't some Puritan thing. Straight-edge was asking adherents to take control of their lives, not to be blind consumers, and not to be tricked into thinking that drinking and drugs were cool since in fact they were the tools of a previous generation
Kim Gordon
#23. And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.
Paracelsus
#24. I have always wanted my children's dads to be involved in their lives. Not just the day-to-day aspect, but the emotional shifts that they go through, when little things pop up - they need to be included, absolutely, and for the children to feel that they are.
Kate Winslet
#25. Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
B.F. Skinner
#26. A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
Paracelsus
#27. That is the idea he is toying with, Renzo says, to write an essay about the things that don't happen, the lives not lived, the wars not fought, the shadow worlds that run parallel to the world we take to be the real world, the not-said and the not-done, the not-remembered.
Paul Auster
#28. You know, we spend so much of our lives not saying the things we want to say. The things we should say. We speak in code, we send little messages. Origami. So now, plainly, simply. I want to say that I love you both.
Michael Scofield
#29. He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.
Homer
#30. I've learned that asking ourselves not just what we want to be, but who we want to be is important at every stage of our lives, not just when we're starting out in the world. That's because in a way, we're starting out fresh in the world every single day.
Maria Shriver
#31. To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
Bertrand Russell
#32. I try to hang on to as much mystery as possible. How can we go through our lives not wanting to have any element of surprise?'
Charlize Theron
#33. Beauty - real everlasting beauty - lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do for ourselves and for others.
Justina Chen
#35. The only legitimate purpose of government is to serve citizens, and ... the only legitimate purpose of technology is to improve our lives, not to manipulate or enslave us.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#36. Poetry can tell us about what's going on in our lives - not only our personal but our social and political lives.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#37. We read to find out what the world is like, to experience lots of lives, not just the one we live. If it is true that our lives are chaotic and we crave a shape, stories are the shapes that we put on experience, containing all the wisdom in the world. We can even choose what kind of wisdom suits us.
Ramona Koval
#39. The federal government should be less important in our lives, not more.
Neal Boortz
#40. Shouldn't a man's character be judged by the way he lives, not by how much destruction he causes?" "That's
Phoebe Conn
#41. It's crazy to think that people can appreciate your presence in their lives not because of what you've accomplished or what they've gotten out of knowing you, but just because you're present.
Natalie Bina
#42. You broke a man today. Doesn't that affect you at all? These are lives, not pieces in a chess game with your uncle.'
'You're wrong. We are on my uncle's board and these men are all his pieces.'
'Then each time you move one of them, you can congratulate yourself on how much like him you are.
C.S. Pacat
#43. We spend so much of our lives not feeling but doing, doing, doing, and movies remind us that we are human. That life is all the things we see, and yet there is beauty there. There's a celebration of life and all of its intricacies. Movies are magnificent.
Nadine Velazquez
#44. He who lives not in reference
to eternity, lives not at all.
Adam Clarke
#45. We all have to lead double lives, not just celebrities. The face we put on publicly with our jobs and certain situations. I think that's part of the human condition.
Greg Kinnear
#46. This has got to be the greatest school for lab bands in the country. It's great because Leon Breeden and his staff have devoted their lives - not just their time and talent - to build it.
Louie Bellson
#47. The entrepreneurs who succeed usually want to make a difference to people's lives, not just their own bank balances.
Richard Branson
#48. Why, he wondered, did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions - not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?
Isaac Asimov
#49. Don't ever be sorry for being who you are. Most of us go our whole lives not really getting it right, just settling." He tugged a strand of her hair. "Do you have any idea the strength it takes to not settle? To keep pushing and seeking for what works?
Jill Shalvis
#50. His kisses really did have the power to change lives. Not that I'd admit that. His ego was ginormous as it was.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#51. ...and I wonder if my lineage is one of women shrinking, making space for the entrance of men into their lives, not knowing how to fill it back up once they leave. I have been taught accommodation.
Lily Myers
#52. HE WHO LOVES NOT, LIVES NOT! HE WHO LIVES BY THE LIFE CANNOT DIE.
Basil Mathews
#53. Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
Berthold Auerbach
#54. Sometimes we behave and perform with our lives, not for God, but for an audience.
R.C. Sproul
#55. It's fantastic because I've been living thousands of lives, not only my life.
Claudia Cardinale
#56. Self-esteem and identity are very fragile things. I think a lot of times, those are the motivations for why people do take their own lives - not being seen, not being recognized, not being loved, not feeling supported, not feeling understood.
Nate Parker
#57. The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood, Yet only eats and drinks what you think good.
John Dryden
#58. My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, He is my righteousness.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#59. A person's disposition should serve as a narrative of their lives not the pigmentation of their skin.
Henry Johnson Jr
#61. He made you you - on purpose. You are the only you - ever. Becoming ourselves means we are actively cooperating with God's intention for our lives, not fighting him or ourselves.
Stasi Eldredge
#62. The doctrine of Scripture teaches us about the authority of God's Word. Scripture must be the final rule of faith and practice for our lives. Not our feelings or emotions. Not signs or prophetic words or hunches.
Joshua Harris
#63. Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different ... I claimed myself and remade my life. Only when I knew I belonged to myself completely did I become capable of giving myself to another, of finding joy in desire, pleasure in our love, power in this body no one else owns.
Dorothy Allison
#64. They don't know. It's not their fault. What are they supposed to do when they've been told their whole lives not to believe in fairy tales?
Heather O'Neill
#65. The power we were given to think, is to enable us to live better lives, not fool more people.
Michael Brent Jones
#66. Death is the end of all life in the individual or the thing; if physical, the crumbling of the body into dust from whence it came. He who lives not uprightly, dies completely in the crumbling of the physical body, but he who lives well, transforms himself from that which is mortal, to immortal.
Marcus Garvey
#67. But sooner or later people have to take up their own lives, not disperse them out as though they were knitting wool that a clever knitter might handle better.
Elizabeth Harrower
#68. If we are not allowed to deal with small problems, we will be destroyed by slightly larger ones. When we come to understand this, we live our lives not avoiding problems, but welcoming them them as challenges that will strengthen us so that we can be victorious in the future.
Jim Stovall
#69. To slay the sinner is then the first use of the Law, to destroy the life and strength wherein he trusts and convince him that he is dead while he lives; not only under the sentence of death, but actually dead to God, void of all spiritual life, dead in trespasses and sins.
John Wesley
#70. Whereas Hunt recommended universal charity, Keats, feeling himself 'in a Mist', relied on a knowing passivity: 'Men should bear with each other - there lives not the Man who may not be cut up, aye hashed to pieces on his weakest side'.
Nicholas Roe
#71. Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.
Ellen Goodman
#72. Between the radiant white of a clear conscience and the coal black of a conscience sullied by sin lie many shades of gray
where most of us live our lives. Not perfect but not beyond redemption.
Sherry L. Hoppe
#73. Whereas what we need is to fumble around in the darkness, because that's where our lives (not necessarily all of the time, but at least some of the time, and particularly when life gets problematical for us) takes place.
John Cage
#74. It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery are a part of your lives, not something to store away in a child's bedroom, or to use as an escape from your lives.
Charles De Lint
#75. He that lives not well one yeare, sorrowes seven after.
[He that lives not well one year sorrows seven years after.]
George Herbert
#76. We are now, all of us, cinematographers for the movie of our own lives. Not the star. Not the director. Not even the writer.
Andrew Kaufman
#77. Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but by some unconscious obedience to the all-just laws, so that we become like a still lake of purest crystal and without an effort our depths are revealed to ourselves ...
Henry David Thoreau
#78. A believer is an evangelist primarily by who he is and how he lives-not by what he says. What he says is important; but unless his speaking tallies with what he is and does, he had better keep quiet.
Joseph Sittler
#79. Oh, Death was never enemy of ours!
We laughed at him, we leagued with him, old chum.
No soldier's paid to kick against His powers.
We laughed, - knowing that better men would come,
And greater wars: when each proud fighter brags
He wars on Death, for lives; not men, for flags.
Wilfred Owen
#80. And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love" ...
Leo Tolstoy
#82. Rather I think that a man who ... is willing ... to value learning as long as he lives, not supposing that old age brings him wisdom of itself, will necessarily pay more attention to the rest of his life.
Plato
#83. Every man lives. Not every man truly dies.
Necro
#84. A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.
Archibald MacLeish
#85. We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives ... not looking for flaws, but for potential.
Ellen Goodman
#87. The day we receive Jesus Christ as our Savior is one of the greatest days of our lives. Not only are our sins washed away, but God puts His Spirit inside of us and gives us new desires.
Joyce Meyer
#88. Many of us, particularly those of us with disabilities who have faced persistent discrimination throughout our lives, not least when trying to find employment in the first place, take enormous pride in our hard-fought jobs and careers.
Stella Young
#89. Science is the greatest creative impulse of our time. It dominates the intellectual scene and forms our lives, not only in the material things which it has given us, but also in that it guides our spirit.
Polykarp Kusch
#90. Man lives, not directly or nakedly in nature like the animals, but within a mythological universe, a body of assumptions and beliefs developed from his existential concerns.
Northrop Frye
#91. The president should stop apologizing, stop being defensive. The reality is the NSA has saved thousands of lives not just in the United States but in France, Germany and throughout Europe.
Peter King
#92. Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#93. Prayer is for every moment of our lives, not just for times of suffering or joy. Prayer is really a place, a place where you meet God in genuine conversation.
Billy Graham
#94. I've unsheathed my claws too many times. I want to save lives, not destroy them.
Erin Hunter
#95. Everything that lives, lives not alone, nor for itself.
William Blake
#96. Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives not by truth but by make-believe.
W. Somerset Maugham
#97. How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives.
Robert Breault
#98. We send our [peacekeepers] off to some disputed zone, full of local intrigue and power blocs and uncertainty and danger, and they are supposed to save lives not with their weapons, but through their competence and their character. And they do it.
Romeo LeBlanc
#99. We are people with lives, not consumers with lifestyles.
Lily Tomlin
#100. As women, we are the protagonists of our own personal novels. We are called upon to be the heroines of our own lives, not supporting characters.
Erin Blakemore
