Lives Our Quotes

#1. What we gain in the world, we lose in the world, forgotten in death. We must rather fancy what we brought into the world, for therein lives our story, our legend.

Palle Oswald

#2. Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!

Rick Perry

#3. On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.

Mitt Romney

#4. There are moments where we don't understand the world we live in - where we don't understand our own lives, our sadness or our joy.

Lisa Lucas

#5. Terms don't define our lives; our lives define our terms.

Joshua Harris

#6. It touches every aspect of our social lives, our loving and hating, fighting and cooperating, giving and stealing, our greed and our generosity.

Richard Dawkins

#7. The greatest barrier to knowing God's will is simply that we want to run our own lives. Our problem is that a battle is going on in our hearts - a battle between our wills and God's will.

Billy Graham

#8. We are designed by God to be doubly dependent. First, directly upon God, and second, indirectly upon God through those people God brings into our lives. Our existence is to be one of interconnection, not isolation.

Anonymous

#9. By comparison with such lives, our days were inconsequential indeed, and yet even though our canvas was small, still we could paint a masterpiece - as long as we were content for it to be a miniature.

Alexander McCall Smith

#10. Let us our lives, our souls,
Our debts, our careful wives,
Our children, and our sins, lay on the King!

William Shakespeare

#11. Becoming a Leader of Character changes lives - our lives and the lives of the people we touch.

Dave Anderson

#12. Our world today is looking for men and women with integrity, for communicators who back up their ministry with their lives. Our preaching emerges out of what we are. We are called to be a holy people - separated from the moral evils of the world.

Billy Graham

#13. To bring a love ethic to every dimension of our lives, our society would need to embrace change.

Bell Hooks

#14. We've got an entire lifetime ahead of us to do things like get married. But sometimes things in people's lives don't happen in chronological order like they should. Especially in our lives. Our chronological order got mixed up a long time ago.

Colleen Hoover

#15. We can know that in the beginning there was God and not just some cosmic upheaval that brought light out of darkness only when we have experienced him doing the same thing in our lives, our world
bringing light out of our darkness

Frederick Buechner

#16. We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents' lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies-all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.

Angela Carter

#17. Our lives,our brokenness,our flaws and failures are precisely what God designed to reflect a perfect love.

Peter Adejimi

#18. We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is important, and disasters are sometimes one of those opportunities.

Rebecca Solnit

#19. We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.

Eugene O'Neill

#20. God has given us control over one thing in our lives - our thoughts.

Napoleon Hill

#21. Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our very tears help wipe away tears; our being hated helps those we love.

Peter Kreeft

#22. Our potential is so great that we have the ability to change our lives, our surroundings and the global world with just an idea

Bruce Budden

#23. She was the light of our lives, our anchor, compass and vision.

Ralph Nader

#24. We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

Maeve Binchy

#25. Rebuilding us. Isn't that what the spirit requires, when we climb over the wreckage of our lives, sometimes, we go on to make our lives our own affirmation? We are perfect expressions of perfect Love, here and now. There is no permanent injury.

Richard Bach

#26. We're killers, all of us: We kill our lives, our past selves, the things that mattered. We bury them under slogans and excuses.

Lauren Oliver

#27. And I realized that maybe none of us ever gets to choose our lives. Our only choice is to live the life that comes to us, or go down into darkness.

Melinda M. Snodgrass

#28. Two things destroy the peace and tranquility of our lives; our bewailing past disappointments, or fearing future ones.

John Flavel

#29. The Torah is the foundational text for Jewish law, but the Haggadah is our book of living memory. We are not merely telling a story here. We are being called to a radical act of empathy. Here we are, embarking on an ancient, perennial attempt to give human lives - our lives - dignity.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#30. Most bacteria aren't bad. We breathe and eat and ingest gobs of bacteria every single moment of our lives. Our food is covered in bacteria. And you're breathing in bacteria all the time, and you mostly don't get sick.

Bonnie Bassler

#31. What is the world, except that which we feel? Love, and hope, and delight, or sorrow and tears; these are our lives, our realities, to which we give the names of power, possession, misfortune, and death.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#32. As we embark on a new chapter of our lives, our focus must be on what the future holds. We can look back from the old memories but mustn't stay there and be stagnant for life is meant to let you move forward and not backwards.

Elizabeth E. Castillo

#33. It is all up to us. We are the ones who have to keep looking at our thoughts, looking for the nature of our mind. there is nobody else in control of our lives, our experiences, our freedom or our bondage.

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

#34. We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.

Thomas Jefferson

#35. I cannot imagine a more realistic faith than the Christian faith. At every turn, we are told we are death-determined creatures and that our lives, our all too brief lives, at the very least will be complex if not difficult.

Stanley Hauerwas

#36. Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

Mark Twain

#37. When we promote the well-being of others God has placed in our lives our service glorifies God.

Elizabeth George

#38. I accept the consequences of all that I do. No matter what we do with our lives, our bodies are temporary. We're all going to die, and I'd rather die climbing than doing anything else.

John Bachar

#39. The most important part of our lives-our sensations, emotions, desires, and aspirations-takes place in a universe of illusions which science can attenuate or destroy, but which it is powerless to enrich.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#40. Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#41. I have fallen in love with the stories of our lives, our everyday mythologies. How will they unfold? What will become of us?

D.J. MacLennan

#42. Fate determines who comes into our lives Our attitude and actions determine who stays in our lives.

Javan

#43. We have to fight for something. It has to cost us. Our lives, our faith, have to cost us something; otherwise we're left to question its value.

Martin Sheen

#44. Sin, like a deadly cancer, has invaded every area of our lives: our bodies, our minds, our emotions, our wills - everything.

Billy Graham

#45. Sang Ly, we are literature-our lives, our hopes, our desires, our despairs, our passions, our strengths, our weaknesses. Stories express our longing not only to make a difference today but to see what is possible for tomorrow. Literature has been called a handbook for the art of being human.

Camron Wright

#46. Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state.

Marianne Williamson

#47. It is the cells which create and maintain in us, during the span of our lives, our will to live and survive, to search and experiment, and to struggle.

Albert Claude

#48. Our lives our guided by that general conception of the course of things which has been created by society for social purposes.

William Kingdon Clifford

#49. We must all face the fact that in a single lifetime we lead several simultaneous lives; our intention should be to make them reinforce one another instead of colliding.

Brendan Gill

#50. The dreamer is the whole dream. For us, dreaming and imagination are coupled with action to treat our lives, our business and our relationships as a constant unfolding.

Tim Girvin

#51. I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.

Madonna Ciccone

#52. Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.
It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them.

John Grogan

#53. Our lives, our stories, flowed into one another's, were no longer our own, individual, discrete.

Salman Rushdie

#54. The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.

Joyce Carol Oates

#55. We are as the dead," Sha said. "Our purpose is to dedicate our lives to the service of our lord. And, when it is necessary, to surrender those lives. When we become what we are, we lose our lives - our names, our family, our homes, and our honour. All that remains is our lord.

Jim Butcher

#56. We all obsess about what we are doing and accomplishing. What if we let it go and simply made the way we live our lives our accomplishment?

Maria Shriver

#57. Regardless of WHAT we do in our lives, our WHY - our driving purpose, cause or belief - never changes.

Simon Sinek

#58. Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined ... or one great figure ... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.

Philip K. Dick

#59. We have dedicated our lives, our blood, to the freedom and liberation of our people, and nothing, no force can stop us from achieving our goal. If it is necessary to destroy the United States of America, then let us destroy it with a smile on our faces.

Eldridge Cleaver

#60. We encounter electromagnetic fields every single day. Many invisible waves and vibrations cross in the space around us. Even the physical pains and emotional moods of other people around us affect our lives. Our souls match/mirror the vibrations of other people faster than our bodies.

Hina Hashmi

#61. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

Thomas Jefferson

#62. Let us give up our work, our thoughts, our plans, ourselves, our lives, our loved ones, our influence, our all, right into His hand, and then, when we have given all over to Him, there will be nothing left for us to be troubled about, or to make trouble about.

James Hudson Taylor

#63. Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serves a very special, if yet to be realized purpose: They are mirrors that can serve to show us things about ourselves that can be realized in no other way.

Guy Finley

#64. The real power and test of our ministry (calling) is not in the pulpit or public arena, but in our private lives, our home.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#65. An angry enemy encroached on our lives, our territory, our freedom and our independence.

Petro Poroshenko

#66. Oh, there will still be deception. The fresh crew will emerge as adults, will have memories of past training and lives. Our stories, our lives, will go on. I refuse to allow that love to die, just because it was never real.

Greg Bear

#67. Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives ... our vicarious way
to feel alive.

V.C. Andrews

#68. None of us are going to have perfect lives. Our own vision of what we think is good maybe different from what He [God] thinks. And we forget that. We think we know what's best and we don't.

Bethany Hamilton

#69. We are all born to fly. Instead, we sit on the branches afraid of the leap into the unknown. But the unknown is where enlightenment lives. Our true nature is the unknown.

Enza Vita

#70. But I think it's useful to note that at any particular point in our lives our minds are full not just of our own memories but of the experiences of characters from the books we've been reading. That's if we are lucky to have the education and leisure to read at all. And the curiosity

Joanna Scott

#71. Everything - our lives, our loves, our futures - hinges on one word alone: IF.

A.G. Howard

#72. The colorful sky stretched before us - magnificent - as if it was trying to make up for the ugliness of our lives, our constant struggles. And for just the briefest, most fleeting of moments, maybe it did.

Mia Sheridan

#73. But despite the scarcity of confrontation with whites in our neighborhood, race and racism permeated every aspect of our lives. Our parents taught us that in order to succeed, we 'had to be twice as good as white folks.' We were constantly being prepared to enter a world dominated by whites.

Junius Williams

#74. It is in the act of offering our hearts in faith that something in us transforms ... proclaiming that we no longer stand on the sidelines but are leaping directly into the center of our lives, our truth, our full potential.

Sharon Salzberg

#75. Throughout much of our lives, our association with the temporary has risen. This transitory body, a sack of bones and flesh, is considered erroneously as our true body and we have accepted this temporary condition as conclusive.

George Harrison

#76. When we stand up for what we believe in - for what's right - there is always a chance that we risk the very things we fight for: our safety, our lives, our freedom. But if we stand down, the risk is definite.

Kelseyleigh Reber

#77. The end point of leadership is not just the position of power we reach, but the continual change and deepening we experience that makes a difference in our lives, our work, our world. Our leadership journeys are only at midpoint when we have achieved a position of power.

Janet Hagberg

#78. So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness
united, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#79. As human beings, we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values.

Stephen Covey

#80. We are beginning to learn that each animal has a life and a place and a role in this world. If we place compassion and care in the middle of all our dealings with the animal world and honor and respect their lives, our attitudes will change.

Jane Goodall

#81. I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music.

Robin Gibb

#82. Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

Anne Lamott

#83. Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art form, a free and individual spirit, and an artist of worldwide fame, his great talents and magnificent spirit added richness and pleasure to all our lives.

Richard M. Nixon

#84. These new technologies are not yet inevitable. But if they blossom fully into being, freedom may irrevocably perish. This is a fight not only for the meaning of our individual lives, but for the meaning of our life together.

Bill McKibben

#85. For years of our lives the days pass waywardly, featureless, without meaning, without particular happiness or unhappiness. Then, like turning over a tapestry when you have only known the back of it, there is spread the pattern.

Jane Gardam

#86. There's a reason we'll all end up with just a handful of true friends in our life. These are the people that have taken the time to look at our heart, so despite any flaws they're forever in our lives.

Ron Baratono

#87. There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds and their outward characters, but not themselves. There is a secret self that has its own life, unpenetrated and unguessed.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#88. Anyone can revolt. It is more difficult silently to obey our own inner promptings, and to spend our lives finding sincere and fitting means of expression for our temperament and our gifts.

Georges Rouault

#89. I realized - and I am probably the last person in the world to realize this - that we live our lives with no editing.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#90. Can you see the future, Kerbouchard?"
"Who would wish to? Our lives hold a veil between anticipation and horror. Anticipation is the carrot suspended before the jackass to keep him moving forward. Horror is what he would see if he took his eyes off the carrot.

Louis L'Amour

#91. But for all we've lost, hope is in fact one thing we Japanese have regained. The great earthquake and tsunami have robbed us of many lives and resources. But we who were so intoxicated with our own prosperity have once again planted the seed of hope. So I choose to believe.

Ryu Murakami

#92. We all gotta die, and we all gotta live with the things our dark sides do. People are afraid of their darkness, though. Spend their whole lives so scared of dyin' that they never get to live. Spend their whole lives pushin' down that darkness, until there ain't no light at all.

Suzanne Palmieri

#93. When spring knocks at your door, regardless of the time of year or season of our lives, run, do not walk to that door, throw it open with wild abandon, and say, Yes! Yes, come in! Do me, and do me big!

Jeffrey R. Anderson

#94. For those who protest that Mr. Obama will soon be out of office and irrelevant, read on and learn how his legacy of conscious control over every aspect of our lives will continue to function for generations to come. On

Alexandra York

#95. But, no matter how big or small dictators are, they all accept 100 percent the principle that granting government authority to manipulate our lives and control our property is legitimate and morally acceptable.

Ron Paul

#96. The cold war was the longest war in United States history. Because of the nuclear capabilities of our enemy it was the most dangerous conflict our country ever faced. Those that won this war did so in obscurity. Those that gave their lives in the cold war have never been properly honored.

Harry Reid

#97. But that's what we all are-just stories. We only exist by how people remember us, by the stories we make of our lives. Without the stories, we'd just fade away.

Charles De Lint

#98. If it is awakened, it communicates a new life to the intelligence in which it lives, so that it becomes a living awareness of itself: and this awareness is not so much something that we ourselves have, as something that we are. It is a new and indefinable quality of our living being.

Thomas Merton

#99. The stars have a strong effect on our daily shopping lives. Hollywood is astrology's only credible conspiracy.

Bauvard

#100. The goal of our lives should be nothing less that becoming so familiar with the "mind of Christ" that we could write Jesus' speeches.

Clare De Graaf