Alive Quotes - Page 12

• Electricity, water, gas, and steam course through the walls of my building, keeping it alive.

  Mason Cooley

  Wall, Water, Building

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• I hold that a man had better be dead than alive when his work is done.

  Alice Cary

  Work, Men, Done

  Alice Cary (1866). “Ballads, Lyrics, and Hymns”, p.227

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• The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm.

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Secret, Journalism, Moments

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• Each precious moment of your life in which you are frozen with fear is a moment when you are not being all you can be. In the end, that hurts more than anything. Succeeding or failing does not determine if we are surviving or living. Rather it is in our ability to reach beyond our present self-imposed definition of who we are, and to risk becoming more, that we are able to feel fully alive.

  Rhonda Britten

  Hurt, Fear, Self

  Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living: Live Without Excuses and Love Without Regret”, p.98, Penguin

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• Art is frightening. Art isn't pretty. Art isn't painting. Art isn't something you hang on the wall. Art is what we do when we're truly alive. An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it (all of it, the work, the process, the feedback from those we seek to connect with) personally.

  Seth Godin

  Art, Wall, Creativity

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• Particularly when the war power is invoked to do things to the liberties of people, or to their property or economy that only indirectly affect conduct of the war and do not relate to the engagement of the war itself, the constitutional basis should be scrutinized with care. ... I would not be willing to hold that war powers may be indefinitely prolonged merely by keeping legally alive a state of war that had in fact ended. I cannot accept the argument that war powers last as long as the effects and consequences of war for if so they are permanent -- as permanent as the war debts.

  Robert H. Jackson

  War, Power, Long

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• It may be that at this moment every battlement of heaven is alive with the redeemed. There is a sainted mother watching for her daughter. Have you no response to that long hushed voice which has prayed for you so often? And for you, young man, are there no voices there that have prayed for you? And are there none whom you promised once to meet again, if not on earth, in heaven?

  Dwight L. Moody

  Daughter, Mother, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 310), 1895.

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• If nothing else will do to sever me from my sins, Lord, send me such sore and trying calamities as shall awake me from earthly slumbers. It must always be best to be alive to Thee, whatever be the quickening instrument.

  Robert E. Murray

  Trying, Slumber, Sin

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• Let us live, while we are alive!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• There is a force that controls all your decisions. It influences how you think and feel every moment you're alive. It determines what you will do and what you will not do. It determines how you feel about anything that occurs in your life. That force is your beliefs.

  Tony Robbins

  Thinking, Decision, How You Feel

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Notes From A Friend: A Quick and Simple Guide to Taking Charge of Your Life”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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• Just being alive is such a gift, but nobody ever told you to be thankful to existence.

  Rajneesh

  Being Thankful, Just Being, Existence

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• In my later years I have sought to become simpler, straighter and purer in my handling of the language. I've had many writing heroes, writers who have influenced me. Of the ones still alive, I can think of E.B. White. I certainly admire the pure, crystal stream of his prose. When I was very young as a sportswriter I knowingly and unashamedly imitated others. I had a series of heroes who would delight me for a while and I'd imitate them--Damon Runyon, Westbrook Pegler, Joe Williams.

  Red Smith

  Sports, Hero, Writing

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• A thing is either alive or it isn’t; there is nothing that is almost alive. There is but the remotest possibility of the origin of life by spontaneous generation, and every likelihood that Arrhenius is right when he dares to claim that life is a cosmic phenomenon, something that drifts between the spheres, like light, and like light transiently descends upon those fit to receive it.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Light, Origin Of Life, Spheres

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• Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless in its indulgence.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Children, Prejudice, Outsiders

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “EMILY STAR - Complete Trilogy: Emily of New Moon + Emily Climbs + Emily's Quest: Classic of Children's Literature”, p.68, e-artnow

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• If the mystical lovers of the arts, who consider all criticism dissection and all dissection destruction of enjoyment, thought logically, an exclamation like "Goodness alive!" would be the best criticism of the most deserving work of art. There are critiques which say nothing but that, only they do so more extensively.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Criticism, Would Be

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• When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.

  Henry James

  Forget, Ignorance Is Bliss, Knows

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• The Lord's Supper has been greatly instrumental in keeping His cause alive. It is the voice of all believers preaching the Lord's death till He come. He who believes that the Lord did come and die for us, and will come again and take us to Himself, and will not hesitate to regard this last request of our Lord and Saviour.

  Charles Deems

  Believe, Voice, Lord's Supper

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• Can rules or tutors educate
  The semigod whom we await?
  He must be musical,
  Tremulous, impressional,
  Alive to gentle influence
  Of landscape and of sky
  And tender to the spirit-touch
  Of man's or maiden's eye.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.363

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• You can't be more alive than you are—but you can awaken to what living is.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

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• Life is currently quite frustrating. However, it feels good to be alive.

  Eric Halvorsen

  Feel Good, Life Is, Frustrating

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• If a warrior lacked wisdom, courage alone would not keep him alive for long.

  Larry McMurtry

  Warrior, Long, Ifs

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• Every kid has a toy that they believe is their best friend, that they believe communicates with them, and they imagine it being alive, their toy horse or car or whatever it is. Stop-motion is the only medium where we literally can make a toy come to life, an actual object.

  Henry Selick

  Horse, Believe, Kids

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• Above all, you must remain open and fresh and alive to any new idea.

  Laurence Olivier

  Ideas, New Ideas

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• I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.

  Eve Ensler

  Beautiful, Progress, Satisfaction

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• I'm just singing for the women who think they can't speak out. Can't a man alive mistreat me, 'cause I know who I am.

  Alberta Hunter

  Men, Thinking, Who I Am

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