Lifeless Quotations

To see him there lifeless and breathless was very emotional for me. But I held myself together because I knew he's very much alive in his spirit, and that was just a shell. But I kissed him on his forehead, and I hugged him, and I touched him and I said, 'Michael, I'll never leave you. You'll never leave me.'

New York has arguably become the quintessential 1 percent city, a city that has been so given over to the rich that you now have to be rich to live here. Or not live here: New York's also a preferred destination for foreign money spent on vast, lifeless apartments in the sky that are occupied a couple of weeks a year at most.

As long as you're enthralled by a lifeless form, you're not free.

Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.

When faith did come, it came, I think, by way of my little paralyzed daughter. Her lifeless hands led me; I think her tiny feet still know beautiful paths.

The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.

This is the trap of having something to live for: Everything else seems lifeless.

Congress and federal regulators need to look carefully at the lifeless competition their flawed policies have created and reject this merger.

Congress and federal regulators need to look carefully at the lifeless 'competition' their flawed policies have created and reject this merger. The government has been deceived before by promises that somehow more concentration would produce more choices and competition, when the result has been just the opposite. It shouldn't be fooled again.

The shot of her laying out in that backyard lifeless when DAS thought they were picking up a carcass and she opened her eyes, that's the only way they could tell she was alive, that's good enough evidence for me.

The biggest single lesson was an early one, and that was that what appeared to be a lifeless landscape was anything but.

It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

They were so proud of their actions that they showed off their blood-splattered shoes they were wearing and treated his broken lifeless body as their trophy, parading friends through the woods to look at it. They listened as he cried out for help and begged him to stop.

I lived in the neighborhood where Berman was centered. It's now a sterile lifeless area of huge federal buildings and apartment houses with no street life.

Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.

The combination of bad weather and a lifeless wicket has sent punters piling in for the draw and if the bad weather continues it is looking good for them .

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.

He is lifeless that is faultless.