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Lives Quotes (page 532)

I believe, Jack, there are two kinds of people in the world. Killers and diers. Most of us are diers. We don't have the dispoisiton, the rage or whatever it takes to be a killer. We le death happen. We lie down and die. But think what it's like to be a killer. Think how exciting it is, in theory, to kill a person in direct confrontation. If he dies, you cannot. To kill him is to gain life-credit. The more people you kill, the more credit you store up. It explains any number of massacres,... Don DeLillo
Mitch Albom quote: "...the human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect."
...the human spirit knows, deep down that all lives intersect. Mitch Albom
Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names of their sons. Childless lords sat in aged halls musing on heraldry or in high cold towers asking questions of the stars. And so the kingdom of Gondor sank into ruin, the line of kings failed, the white tree withered and the rule of Gondor was given over to lesser men. J. R. R. Tolkien
Three men in ten conserve life; three men in ten pursue death. Three men also in ten desire to live, but there acts hasten their journey to the house of death. Why is this? Because of their efforts to preserve life. Lao Tzu
Mother Teresa quote: "A life not lived for others is not a life."
A life not lived for others is not a life. Mother Teresa
Horace quote: "He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a..."
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. Horace
Bob Dylan quote: "The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it..."
The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode Bob Dylan
Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy. Ayn Rand
Philip Levine quote: "Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know,..."
Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything. Philip Levine
I know what every colored woman in this country is doing... Dying. Just like me. But the difference is they dying like a stump. Me, I’m going down like one of those redwoods. I sure did live in this world. Toni Morrison
This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over everything, they were lies, and this is what was underneath. This is the truth. Willa Cather
The dragonets found the carpenters to be even more fascinating than the furniture, and followed the poor men from pen to pen, crowding around to watch, tasting the wooden planks, trying to steal the tools. It made for an interesting day for everyone, as the boys tried to keep the dragonets away from the carpenters, and the dragonets tried to get at the carpenters, and the carpenters worked probably a great deal faster than they ever had in their lives, sure that the dragonets would go from... Mercedes Lackey
When the last living thing. Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be. If Earth could say, In a voice floating up. Perhaps. From the floor. Of the Grand Canyon,"It is done."People did not like it here. Kurt Vonnegut
Italo Calvino quote: "The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural..."
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. Italo Calvino
In that weekly ecstatic keeping of faith and bearing of witness, Delia fell in love with singing. Singing was something that might make sense of a person. Singing might make more sense of life than living had to start with. Richard Powers

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