Values Death Life Quotes

#1. The events of my birth...and finally of my death are not accomplished in me or for me. The affective weight of my life as a whole does not exist for me. Only the Other is in possession of the values of the being of a given person.

Mikhail Bakhtin

#2. Child of the kindly West, I have come to know, if more of us valued your ways - food and cheer above hoarded gold - it would be a merrier world. But sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. Our determination to defend our values and way of life is greater than their (terrorists) determination to cause death and destruction to innocent people in a desire to impose extremism upon the world.

Tony Blair

#4. People must be able to use their voice, tell their stories, have their experiences recognized and their voices heard.

Patricia Leavy

#5. If laser beams can cut through mountains, why should we doubt the power of prayer?

William Arthur Ward

#6. I sat in a garage and invented the future.

Steve Jobs

#7. You don't have forever. You have 24 hours each day to live by your values. People remember you only for what was most important in your life.

J.R. Rim

#8. Since life requires a specific course of action, any other course will destroy it. A being who does not hold his own life as the motive and goal of his actions, is acting on the motive and standard of death.

Ayn Rand

#9. When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.

Eda J. LeShan

#10. Death is a gift. Without it we wouldn't value life.

John Bachar

#11. Kissing Cole Parker was like winning the make-out lottery.

Ainsley Booth

#12. You can truly value life, when you have looked Death in the eyes and held its hand.

Lionel Suggs

#13. All men are in need of help and depend on one another. Human solidarity is the necessary condition for the unfolding of any one individual.

Erich Fromm

#14. To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

Ayn Rand

#15. For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#16. Any coach needs talent. You start with talent. Without talent, we're all in the soup.

Red Auerbach

#17. We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how many mansions you built, or how many Rolls Royces you could afford. That's what dying patients teach you.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#18. Hi. I'm Rachel Trachtenburg. I'm the daughter and the drummer for the Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.

Rachel Trachtenburg

#19. Through the life and death of Jesus Christ, history becomes not the transient bearer of eternal values but, for the first time, thoroughly temporal.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#20. Science gives man ever greater powers but less significance. It gives him better tools with less purposes. It is silent on origins, values, and ultimate aims. It gives life and history no meaning or worth that is not canceled by time and death.

Will Durant

#21. Someday we'll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that's how you and I will be

Billy Joel

#22. It's coming face to face with death that magnifies the values of life force..

Sidney Sheldon

#23. (After death.) So few people who come across, possess awareness of any kind. All they bring along with them are worthless values. All they desire is continuation of what they had in life no matter how misguided or degraded ... Will those people ever progress, even with our help?

Richard Matheson

#24. I guarantee that tomorrow there will be something that will happen, that has never happened before.
That is something to look forward too.
And the best part of tomorrow is that there is another one just a day later.

JohnA Passaro

#25. The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#26. Life is the coexistence of all opposite values. Joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain, up and down, hot and cold, here and there, light and darkness, birth and death. All experience is by contrast, and one would be meaningless without the other.

Deepak Chopra

#27. I've had a very fortunate, very privileged life. I say it with all humility because it could change tomorrow.

Susanne Bier

#28. A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.

William Jennings Bryan

#29. Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.

Albert Camus

#30. Flying is hypnotic and all pilots are victims to the spell. Their world is like a magic island in which the factors of life and death assume their proper values. Thinking becomes clear because there are no earthly foibles or embellishments to confuse it.

Ernest K. Gann