Alive Quotations | Page 5

It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born

Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive - the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.

If you don’t define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive

I am a bleak heroism of words that refuse to be buried alive with the liars.

And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.

Art is the means by which we communicate what it feels like to be alive.

We all need time to enjoy being alive without an agenda of getting something done.

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.

I'm still alive, and I don't lose sleep because I have done what I feel I needed to do, it was the right thing to do and I am not going to be afraid.

We took nothing from anybody. We gave a great deal to the world. The only thing keeping us alive is our brilliance. The only thing that keeps our brilliance alive is our patents.

Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive.

Am I alive and a reality, or am I but a dream?

Being able to express myself through music and art has always been when I feel the most alive.

If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and when he dies the five senses that we know perish with him, and the other ninety-five remain alive... Everything that is unattainable for us now will one day be near and clear... But we must work.

I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush - that’s when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it.

The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

Let's leave one alive so that it can be lonely.

The universe is expanding, and every second that you're alive, the universe is bigger than it was a second before. There's nothing in front of us, exactly, other than the future, and there's no space for the size, the density of the universe to go. Because it's expanding at every point simultaneously.

I failed, many times in my life. One failure that I always remember was when my second book was rejected by 36 publishers. Many years later, I watched HuffPost come alive

I am only so beautiful as the character of my relationships, only so rich as I enrich those around me, only so alive as I enliven those I greet.

I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.

One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

How do you forget something? You just walk away from it, those who are still alive. There are so few clearings in our hearts and minds, so few places where something can't grow on top of whatever happened to us before, and this is love too.

If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question isn’t ‘Is this a potential friend for me?’ but ‘Is this character alive?'

Depression is about as close as you get to somewhere between dead and alive, and it's the worst.

Isn't it a coincidence that you and I are both alive at the same time?

Life is a process of losing our illusions, until we finally lose the illusion that we're alive.

One thing about pain: It proves you're alive.

It's hard enough to be alive and human, without the additional burden of being me.

Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive officiously to keep alive.

Only the words of love kept alive are worthy of not being wasted.

Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.

Darwinism is still very much alive, utterly dominating biology. Despite the fact that no one has ever been able to prove the creation of a single distinct species by Darwinist means, Darwinism dominates the academy and the media.

If you can't protect yourself with talk, you won't be alive to protect yourself with guns.

Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful.

The highway is alive tonight But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light With the ghost of old Tom Joad.

For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

Is there anybody alive out there?

For the ones who had a notion, A notion deep inside, That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive I wanna find one face that ain't looking through me I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these badlands

It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive.

Live at your highest potential-moment to moment to moment... When do we feel most alive? When we're being ourselves-our highest selves.

When I was in Downing Street, David Cameron saw me and said, "Please, shout it all around and let it penetrate to my cabinet meeting." So I bellowed: "Gordon's alive!"

In the Arctic I met some Russian sailors on a submarine and they chorused, "Gordon's alive!"

The only way to love a person is...by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.

I don't think I'd really be alive without it, in all honesty.

We did exactly what we did yesterday, bunching our hits together to produce runs. Once again, our bats came alive in the clutch situations. Whenever you hit like we have during those times, you are going to win.

We desperately need to let the world know we're alive and that we're open for business. We hope people see the devastation when they come, to better understand what we've been through.

One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.

I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.

Poetry can keep life itself alive. You can endure almost anything as long as you can sing about it.

Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you can be.

"I want to stay alive in pretty much 90% of my movies. Slaughtering isn't exactly what I'm going for, but I will play edgy for sure."

There is a possibility that there is somebody out there alive today over 122, but we'll probably never know it, because in all likelihood they come from either China or India, and they don't have reliable birth records.

We decided to come in and run the event this year to keep it alive and buy ourselves some time to find a new title sponsor and perhaps even a new host organization,

We hope to propose something to the church in maybe March or April. The church is alive and well.

Yesterday, it was Augie's day and we didn't want to intrude upon his day with politics. We have to move on and keep his spirit alive by helping to protect his buddies who are still out there.

like the fox I run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth I’m surely the luckiest man alive.

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.

They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.

We've staved it off for 15 years, but we have to pay the piper -- the time is here. To use money just to keep a dwindling school alive is not wise. I understand that it's difficult, but looking at it overall, it's not the board's fault enrollment in particular schools is going down, and it's not the board's fault that families have to move to Tracy to buy a house.

We've seen some aggressive opposition in the New York area, ... It's a sign that terrorism is alive and well in this country.

The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the case, and that you're glad other people are, without having to spend an entire evening proving it.

When I was 14, my dad came home one day and told us he had cancer. It was looking pretty bad. And I remember him saying how afraid he was that he hadn't gotten to do the things he wanted to do during his life. He had surgery and survived. And he's still alive today, thank God. But it made a big impact on me.

The popular indexes have managed to reach 4-year highs, while small and midsize indexes flirt with all-time highs. The lack of sustainability is likely due to the senior citizen status of the bull market, now in its 41st month. The restless rotation is keeping hope alive with money shifting from energy stocks to home building to technology to financials.

The popular indexes have managed to reach 4 1/2-year highs, while small and midsize indexes flirt with all-time highs. The lack of sustainability is likely due to the senior citizen status of the bull market, now in its 41st month. The restless rotation is keeping hope alive with money shifting from energy stocks to home building to technology to financials.

I got an amazing 10-CD set, it's the music that Alan Lomax recorded in Haiti in 1936. And what's incredible is how fantastic the drummers are and how off-the-grid they are. The liveliness is astonishing; they're just totally alive, these recordings. It's very interesting, to me, to be reminded of that, that there was a time when things were not that tight.

You'd be surprised at what you'd do to stay alive.

If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.

If OJ Simpson did not have a handgun, Nicole and Ron would still be alive today.

How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

It's that engagement of learning that makes us feel alive.

To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.

I'm just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I'm alive.

There's no one alive I can't beat.

Acknowledgement is the only way to keep love alive.

It's good to be alive.

Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.

We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie making.

I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

It doesn't matter how many people I've killed. What matters is how I get along with the people who are still alive.

Music has touched me deeply, sometimes to tears. But at the same time it's been life-affirming, because I've been grateful for the fact that I'm alive and human and capable of being so moved.

Men had always told Kaladin that he fought like nobody else. He’d felt it on the first day he’d picked up a quarterstaff, though Tukks’s advice had helped him refine and channel what he could do. Kaladin had cared when he fought. He’d never fought empty or cold. He fought to keep his men alive

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be 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 .

Every life is different because you passed this way and touched history... Listen being dead is not worse than being alive. It is different though. You could say the view is larger.

When you're challenged, you're totally alive and totally dealing with reality, particularly if it could be dangerous. And that excites me!

We are alive again. We were on life support.

This win keeps us alive a little bit longer. Without this win, we would be dead.

Keep our marriage alive, and farewell.

I never question the way I write. Writing is the only thing that's without seams for me. It's an effort to talk because my pictures have to be turned into these sounds. It's an effort to be alive. It's work. But writing is wonderful.

It’s a wonder I’m even alive. Sometimes I think that. I think that I can’t believe I haven’t killed myself. But there’s something in me that just keeps going on. I think it has something to do with tomorrow, that there is always one, and that everything can change when it comes.

You are allowed to be alive. You are allowed to be somebody different. You are allowed to not say goodbye to anybody or explain a single thing to anyone, ever.

After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.

On the whole I woke up in the morning and was happy to be alive.

I became a hero to everyone because I didn't take dialysis and was still alive.