Lives Quotes
Generally attributed to Henry David Thoreau.
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It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.
nelson mandela
Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.
alex haley— Statement in Reader's Digest (1987), as quoted in Incredibly American : Releasing the Heart of Quality (1992) by Marilyn R. Zuckerman and Lewis J. Hatala, p. 13
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein— p. 83 - letter to Adrianna Enriques, Oct 1921
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
rosa parks— Quoted in "The Meaning of Life: Reflections in Words and Pictures on Why We Are Here," from Life Magazine (1991)
The way and manner God executes His plan in our lives differs
t. b. joshua— On the uniqueness of his calling - "I Have No Money In My Account - TB Joshua" Modern Ghana (August 24 2009)
Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. (KJV)
jesus christ— 9:55–56 Rebuking James and John for asking if he would command fire to come down from heaven, to consume a village of Samaritans for not receiving them, because they seemed to be headed for Jerusalem.
We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.
Beyoncé
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Martin Luther King Jr.— Used 7 September 2004
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— p. 199 (Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age (2003))
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
oscar wilde
A person in a rented apartment must be able to lean out of his window and scrape off the masonry within arm's reach. And he must be allowed to take a long brush and paint everything outside within arm's reach. So that it will be visible from afar to everyone in the street that someone lives there who is different from the imprisoned, enslaved, standardised man who lives next door.
friedensreich hundertwasser— Window Dictatorship and Window Rights (1990)
The people of East Pakistan will owe it to the million who have died in the cyclone to make the supreme sacrifice of another million lives, if need be, so that we can live as a free people.
sheikh mujibur rahman— Addressing a rally before the 1970 general elections in Pakistan. [4]
Most libertarians agree that all rights are, in effect, property rights, beginning with this fundamental right to self-ownership and control of one's own life. As owners of their own lives, individuals are completely free to do absolutely anything they wish with them provided, of course, that it doesn't violate the identical right of others whether the people around them approve of what they do or not.
l. neil smith— (with Rylla Cathryn Smith) What Libertarians Believe, "Introduction: The Zero Aggression Principle,"[19] 4 January 2009
I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appals. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, which we value, are ubiquitous and blind, that life itself is so astonishingly cheap, that nature is as careless as it is bountiful, and that with extravagance goes a crushing waste that will one day include our own cheap lives.
Annie Dillard— 1974 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch.10.
...the Americans must have the Almighty dollar. Their cupidity renders them daring and indifferent to everything else. It is nothing to them to expose their lives and those of others in order to gain money. How materialistic these people are!
théodore guérin— To the Right Reverend J. Bouvier, Bishop of Le Mans, Saint Mary's, 1849-07-08
I am reminded of those prodigies who spent years of their lives calculating digits of the decimal expansion of - a task that is now a mere warm-up exercise for computer software. I cannot help wandering which of my labors will appear equally quaint and pathetic to some future reader who ransacks libraries for old volumes like this one.
brian hayes— Chapter 7, On The Teeth Of Wheels, p. 138
Every humane and patriotic heart must grieve to see a bloody and causeless rebellion, costing thousands of human lives and millions of treasure. But as it was predetermined and inevitable, it was long enough delayed. Now is the appropriate time to solve the greatest problem ever submitted to civilized man.
thaddeus stevens— "Subduing the Rebellion" (22 January 1862), as quoted in The Selected Works of Thaddeus Stevens.
The most beautiful conception of immortality of which I know, and certainly one that by contrast shows the utter vulgarity of Christian ideas, is set forth in Pindar's second Olympian: after three or six lives in which a man has lived with strict justice and perfect integrity, he passes beyond the tower of Cronus to the fair realm that cannot be reached by land or sea, where gentle breezes from a placid ocean blow forever on the fields of asphodel. For a description, see Pindar. If the beauty of great poetry can commend a religion, here you have it.
revilo p. oliver— "Afterthoughts on Afterlife", Instauration magazine (August 1980)
What can I tell you, son of mine? I could tell you of heartbreak, hatred blind, I could tell of crimes that shame mankind, Of brutal wrong and deeds malign, Of rape and murder, son of mine; But I'll tell instead of brave and fine When lives of black and white entwine, And men in brotherhood combine This would I tell you, son of mine.
Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska— We Are Going, "Son of Mine" (1964)
We breathe, we think, we conceive of our lives as narratives.
Christopher Charles Herbert Lehmann-Haupt— 1984 On Peter Brooks Reading for thePlot (1984). In the NewYork Times,11 Jul.
The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order, a timetable not necessarilyperhaps not possiblychronological? It isthe continuousthread of revelation.
Eudora Welty— 1984 OneWriter's Beginnings, II.'Learning to See'.
We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess — their very lives.
cesar chavez— Indestructible Spirit Conference at La Paz, UFW Headquarters in Keene, California (11 January 1991)
“Events,” I say to the Captain, “events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.”
barry malzberg— Chapter 60
Myriads of individuals, each one unique, live out their lives in rapt intercourse with one another, contribute their heart's pulses to the universal music, and presently vanish, giving place to others. All this age-long sequence of private living, which is the actual tissue of humanity's flesh, I cannot describe. I can only trace, as it were, the disembodied form of its growth.
Olaf Stapledon— Chapter XIV: Neptune
As Mayor of the City of Los Angeles and on behalf of its residents, I commend you for your tireless, lifelong efforts to bring to people in the Los Angeles area and around the world a message of hope, and for providing them inspiration and guidance to find peace within and live fulfilling lives. I am pleased to join with members of the community in recognizing your remarkable achievements and accomplishments throughout the years. With best wishes in all your future endeavors.
maharaji (prem rawat)— James K. Hahn, Mayor of Los Angeles, California, United States of America, January 12, 2005
For 60 years Gross Domestic Product, or GDP for short, has been the yardstick by which the world has measured and understood economic and social progress. However, it has failed to capture some of the factors that make a difference in people’s lives and contribute to their happiness, such as security, leisure,income distribution and a clean environment–including the kinds of factors which growth itself needs to be sustainable.
— Joseph Stiglitz, in Beyond GDP: Measuring the impact of Operational Programmes in relation to economic growth and sustainable development at a local/regional level., QeC-ERAN
