Quotes of: American-lives Keyword

They suffer, of course... but then they live, they live a real life, not a fantastic one, for suffering is life. Without suffering what would be the pleasure of it?

The Brothers Karamazov

It’s why we close the eyes, too. The dead shouldn’t have to look on the lewd aliveness of the living.

By Blood We Live

For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

The meaning of our lives is to justify where our bosses spent their budget.

Budget Justified The Waste Fraud and Abuse of Government Workers

A house with any kind of age will have dozens of stories to tell. I suppose if a novelist could live long enough, one could base an entire oeuvre on the lives that weave in and out of an antique house.

Anita Shreve

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

Johnny Ball

Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone.

Bernard Werber

You're on Facebook, and these people seem to have endless lives. I don't have time to live my life, let alone tell you what I'm doing, or post a photo.

Lewis Black

We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we liv...

Adam Hamilton

I kind of live a private life. I am out a lot, I have amazing friends and see a lot, so it's not like I'm a hermit. But I just know what I do for a living and that there are certain sensitivities.

Joanna Garcia

We live in a day that nobody's lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I'll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It's just an amazing day.

Joel Osteen

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

Bjarke Ingels

If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.

Dani Shapiro

I can remember the moment when I suddenly felt that the camera was a living partner. I suddenly felt this is art, and the camera is a co-operative living person. After that I was extremely happy to act in films.

Erland Josephson

What we want from art is whatever is missing from the lives we are already living and making. Something is always missing, and so art-making is endless.

Jane Hirshfield

People are never able to outperform their self-image.

The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential

Life is now in session. Are you present?

The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth: Live Them and Reach Your Potential

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

1Q84

The best thing to do with a seven-year-old is wait until they’re eight to tell them to wait until they’re 18 to start living life.

$3.33

My environment reflects the life I've led, the places I've visited and the people I've loved.

Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939