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We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.
This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
Live at your highest potential-moment to moment to moment... When do we feel most alive? When we're being ourselves-our highest selves.
The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.
Life is so fluid that one can only hope to capture the living moment, to capture it alive and fresh ... without destroying that moment.
I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.
Poetry needs to be alive, unabashedly, and, for me, that entails seeing its complexity, the grit and grimness and jubilance and beauty.
Just as established products and brands need updating to stay alive and vibrant, you periodically need to refresh or reinvent yourself.
It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.
If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.
There is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The soul never dies and the body is never really alive.
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
I want him [Saddam Hussein]. I want - I want justice. There is an old poster seen out west. As I recall, it said, Wanted Dead or Alive.
Now that you've grown up, You can finally learn to be a child, We made it to the end of the world, But we'll never make it out alive...
It is better to fall in with crows than with flatterers; for in the one case you are devoured when dead, in the other case while alive.
I've had moments where I've felt like I was on another planet because I saw something beautiful. To me, taking pictures is being alive.
That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.
I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.
Every morning that I wake up and I'm breathing, I can feel it and take a moment to say, you know, 'Thank God I'm alive for another day.'
There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.
To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live.
For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.
I know and value what it means to wake up and be alive and to share my story. I'm so blessed to be here and to be able to talk about it.
If tomorrow doesn't happen, would you still do what you're about to do today? If that answer is no, you're alive, but you're not living.
The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it.
I am just a normal human being - I am alive! Why is anyone surprised that I am human? Like many New Yorkers, I have a multifaceted life.
It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her at all the places where she was alive.
She was alive, and they were dead. She had to try to make her life big. As big as she could. She promised Bailey she would keep playing.
It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.
We have to reconceptualize and understand that the act of pursuing our dreams and being our full selves is what allows us to feel alive.
Small businesses have made the call that to stay alive, health care isn't something they can provide. I think it's a tragic calculation.
We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.
I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
You are alive today, and no matter what your condition, make a mark here and now. Opportunity is at every moment, seizing it is pleasure.
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
Rebukes are easy from our betters, From men of quality and letters; But when low dunces will affront, What man alive can stand the brunt?
Suddenly I awake to a stark amazement at everything... To be alive is so incredible that all I can do is to lie still and merely breathe.
Places like Belgium and the south of France, Sweden and Copenhagen are really alive. They really love rock 'n' roll, they really respond.
The bottom line is that Dennis Brown is alive and well, and he's got two lungs and they're kicking and I'm still spitting out them notes.
Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.
One of the few things I like about Bill Clinton is that he has very good manners. If his momma were still alive, I would congratulate her.
You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything.
Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was enought to bury her alive.
You can do so much crazy stuff with books that isn't necessarily being done. That's how culture stays alive - by doing new things with it.
Stand-up keeps you alive. It is definitely the most specialized field in comedy because you need to stay sharp and well-tuned every night.
Immediate gratification of a live audience makes me come alive. I miss performing in theater. I'll make my return to the stage eventually.
When you're challenged, you're totally alive and totally dealing with reality, particularly if it could be dangerous. And that excites me!