Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. Votes: 3
Henry David ThoreauOur lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Votes: 2
Martin Luther King, Jr.Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. Votes: 2
Charles R. SwindollWit lives in the present, but genius survives the future.
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of BlessingtonThe rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps WardYou cannot live a normal existence if you haven't taken care of a problem that affects your life and affects the lives of others, values that you hold which in fact define your very existence. Votes: 1 Wole Soyinka
People say all lives matter. And that's true, but it's just black people that are getting shot in the back running or choked to death for having cigarettes or playing their music too loud. Votes: 3 Ras Baraka
As I detail in my new book: 'Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,' there are many myths surrounding the detention of a relatively small number of top terrorists at CIA-run 'black sites' from 2002 until they were sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006. Votes: 3 Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.
We,re in a battle for our lives for things that really matter to us. There's a shell game going on like I've never seen before. Votes: 1 Senator John Kerry
I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he's an American child. Votes: 3 Richard M. Nixon
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. Votes: 3 Stanley Hauerwas
I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan. Votes: 1 James Van Der Beek
She felt as if things were moving past her as she lay stretched on the bed under the single sheet. But it's not landscape any longer, she thought; it's people's lives, their changing lives." Votes: 3 Virginia Woolf
Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things. Votes: 1 Andrew Weil
In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington. Votes: 2 Fred Thompson
To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions. Votes: 1 Katharine Anthony
You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void. Votes: 3 Stacie Orrico
Regarding social media, I really don't understand what appears to be the general population's lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent... but hey it's them, not me, so whatever. Votes: 2 Axl Rose
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean. Votes: 1 Tony Robbins
It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver. Votes: 2 Betty White
And only the enlightened can recall their former lives; for the rest of us, the memories of past existences are but glints of light, twinges of longing, passing shadows, disturbingly familiar, that are gone before they can be grasped, like the passage of that silver bird on Dhaulagiri. Votes: 3 Peter Matthiessen
God lives. I know that He lives. I know that Jesus is the Christ and the Redeemer of the world. Votes: 4 Ezra Taft Benson
No one has seen God, but as we love one another, God lives in us. Votes: 3 Shane Claiborne
Faith in God is the gift that takes us beyond our limited self, with all its incessant demands. It opens us to a life that stretches us, enlightens us, and often springs surprises upon us. Such faith, like love, sees that which is invisible and lives by it. Votes: 1 Vincent Nichols
I feel very accomplished. It makes me feel great to know that I am impacting lives and of service to the world. Votes: 3 Gabrielle Bernstein
Whether it's Jack Kennedy or Bill Clinton or others, the personal lives do come into play, and people do judge you for that. Votes: 1 Pete Sessions
Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone. Votes: 1 John Clayton
In L.A., if you're an actor, your personal and professional lives are too intertwined. Votes: 1 Jena Malone
I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies. Votes: 4 Kristen Wiig
Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it. Votes: 2 Marian Wright Edelman
Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward. Votes: 3 Nina Sankovitch
Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show. Votes: 1 Major Taylor
Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives. Votes: 3 Sarah Ban Breathnach
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live. Votes: 2 Martin Luther King, Jr.
All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them. Votes: 2 Erma Bombeck
I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here. Votes: 1 Harry Connick, Jr.
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives. Votes: 2 Mark Twain
If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter. Votes: 2 Norman Spinrad
I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past. Votes: 2 Yvonne Craig
Although we leave traces of our personal lives with our credit cards and Web browsers today, tomorrow's mobile devices will broadcast clouds of personal data to invisible monitors all around us. Votes: 1 Howard Rheingold
I couldn't write a happy movie or romantic comedy to save my life. Yes, Noel Coward's an idol, but his plays are serious to me. 'Private Lives' and 'Design for Living' both have an edge. Without psychoanalyzing myself, I think I exorcise my demons in my work. Votes: 3 John Logan
Yes, religion and politics do mix. America is a nation based on biblical principles. Christian values dominate our government. The test of those values is the Bible. Politicians who do not use the bible to guide their public and private lives do not belong in office. Votes: 3 Beverly LaHaye
I hope I'm saving lives. There are very few people in their careers that have the opportunity to do something to benefit mankind. Votes: 4 Stephanie Kwolek
The secret lives of politicians are always shady. People need to accept the fact that their leaders aren't perfect. No one is. Votes: 3 Evan Rachel Wood
I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode. Votes: 3 Martin Gore
A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within. Votes: 4 Eudora Welty
I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives. Votes: 4 Boris Becker
Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you. Votes: 4 Jim Rohn
There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives.And what of those who protect and defend? Those who save lives by taking lives?That's like trying to stop a storm by blowing harder. Ridiculous. You can't protect by killing. Votes: 3 Brandon Sanderson
Everywhere we look, technology has changed our daily lives - from the way we pay our bills, to the way we buy plane tickets or keep in touch with friends and family. Votes: 1 Peter Roskam
We have more media than ever and more technology in our lives. It's supposed to help us communicate, but it has the opposite effect of isolating us. Votes: 4 Tracy Chapman
There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people. Votes: 1 Gavin Bryars
Some people believe that they should have two different lives, and one is what they show on TV and one is their personal life. I am not that person. Votes: 3 Bethenny Frankel
Then all that is needed is a little daring, and his two lives become one. Votes: 3 Paulo Coelho