Our Lives Quotes

We all get damned in our lives, and there are ripple effects. One thing can determine a life, and it's hard to overcome that if the event is really traumatic. Your life is completely condemned by it.

Recalling what our lives were like before Jesus Christ entered them will help keep our daily problems in perspective.

Our lives will last as long as God has something for us to do.

If relationships matter most then [at the end of our lives], shouldn't they matter most now?

I'm interested in music that happens now and that relates to our lives now.

And that whole do-able/undo-able thing? Yeah. Need I point out that neither Ruth nor I have ever "done" anybody in our lives?

How very dull our lives would be without literature! How very much dark and poor, how so sad and empty the world would be!

If you can laugh your way through life, you can have a good time as you're going through the sometimes troubling time that we have in our lives.

And I hear nothing because it's like the volume button has been turned down on our lives and nobody has anything to say anymore." "I want to be an adjective again. But I am a noun.

Because photos are testimony that someone did live. A reminder of past we may have loved or hated. A piece of our lives.

Our lives are a long series of acquiring and then sloughing narratives.

Children's stories force logic upon the gruesome facts of our lives. They mirror our troubles and submit them to a chain of causality.

Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.

Living our lives may not be an exciting prospect to some of us either. Maybe we've been so wrapped up in other people that we've forgotten how to live and enjoy our lives.

Caught between glass and wood, that which breaks and that which bends, that which sings and that which survive. So our lives go.

What I was interested in [Fruitvale Station ] was one guy and his life and how that related to all of our lives and the fact that it ended unnecessarily and what the fallout from that was.

To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.

A long time ago, I learned not to go up to the boss and ask what's happening to my character. I haven't done that for 20 years, since I was on 'Days of Our Lives.

It's part of what we call the Shadow, all the dark parts of us we can't face. It's the thing that, if we don't deal with it, eventually poisons our lives.

The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love.

Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.

Bush's presidency is revisionism-proof. We're going to be recovering from it for the rest of our lives.

Our lives are co-authored in dialogue.

We need more people to go into business and fewer wasting our lives becoming bureaucrats and civil servants.

But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past.

So we came to understand that small and important thing, that our lives could be large with interesting strangers who would pass us without any personal involvement.

The continuous work of our life is to build death.

Only the truth can set us free from the fear, the drama and the conflict of our lives.

Love. Help with no expectations. Destroy selfishness, self... At the end of our lives, I believe the soul will be asked, "What did you do for your fellow man?"

In heaven, there is no judgment, but rather an opportunity to examine our lives-who we touched, the choices we made, and the consequences of those choices.

And that's how it is in America. We look to our communities, our faiths, our families for our joy, our support, in good times and bad. It is both how we live our lives and why we live our lives.

On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.

Jesus announced which will be the criteria of the final judgment of our lives: we will be judged according to love.We will be judged according to the poor of spirit or money.

How fragile our lives are anyway. How quickly things can change forever.

our lives are stories we tell ourselves.

But things that are intrinsically good can also become idols-if we allow them to take over any of God's functions in our lives.

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

Whyte's work remains a living and usable handbook for improving our cities, our countryside, and our lives.

The federal government should be less important in our lives, not more.

I think we all want something to knock us on the head and change our lives.

To educate people for peace, we can use words or we can speak with our lives.

Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?

It's not the troubles we run into, it's what we do about them which determines their net effect upon our lives ... by the very act of trying, our spirit is making progress.

The idea that we've outgrown ends up limiting us and we have to make a choice about what we're going to do in our lives.

What interests me very much as a writer is the ability for writing to have our lives to be occupied so vividly by others. I think that's what we long for as writers.

O Sun, great Oriental, my proud mind's golden cap, I love to wear you cocked askew, to play and burst in song throughout our lives, and so rejoice our hearts.

We all have these notions of cool that come about at different points in our lives, and it's interesting in how it evolves or doesn't evolve in different people.

You're the woman in my life,” he said. “Another thing about me and my brothers? We look after the women in our lives. We don't know any other way.

Faith offers the promise that everything will ultimately be renewed in God. This hardly means that we will, or must, receive an answer from God for every question in our lives.

The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.