Alive Quotes - Page 24

• ...I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except when I'm making love. Two things when you forget time, when nothing exists except the moment--the moment of writing, the moment of love. That perfect concentration is bliss.

  May Sarton

  Sex, Writing, Two

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• You cannot prove realism to a complete sceptic or idealist; but you can show an honest man that he is not a complete sceptic or idealist, but a realist at heart. So long as he is alive his sincere philosophy must fulfil the assumptions of his life and not destroy him.

  George Santayana

  Philosophy, Heart, Reality

  Durant Drake, Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, James Bissett Pratt, Arthur Kenyon Rogers, George Santayana (1920). “Essays in critical realism: a co-operative study of the problem of knowledge”

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• We carry adolescence around in our bodies all our lives. We get through the Car Crash Age alive and cruise through our early twenties as cool dudes, wily, dashing, winsome . . . shooting baskets, the breeze, the moon, and then we try to become caring men, good husbands, great fathers, good citizens.

  Garrison Keillor

  Husband, Father, Caring

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• I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Despair, Futility

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• If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios.

  Robert Benchley

  Writing, Would Be, Today

  Robert Benchley (1943). “Benchley beside himself”

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• Swimmer of noonday, lean for the perfect dive
  To the dead Mother's face, whose subtile down
  You had not seen take amber light alive.

  Allen Tate

  Mother, Swimming, Light

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• Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves...Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Dream, Pain, Past

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• One of the sadder things, I think,
  Is how our birthdays slowly sink:
  Presents and parties disappear,
  The cards grow fewer year by year,
  Till, when one reaches sixty-five,
  How many care we're still alive?

  Philip Larkin

  Party, Thinking, Years

  Philip Larkin (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.176, Faber & Faber

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• I sincerely hope that the incoming Congress will be alive, as it should be, to the importance of our foreign trade and of encouraging it in every way feasible. The possibility of increasing this trade in the Orient, in the Philippines, and in South America is known to everyone who has given the matter attention.

  William Howard Taft

  America, Attention, Matter

  William Howard Taft, David Henry Burton (2004). “The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers”

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• We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

  Benedetto Croce

  Men, History, Satisfied

  Benedetto Croce (1941). “History as the Story of Liberty”

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• Every boy was supposed to come into the world equipped with a father whose prime function was to be our father and show us how tobe men. He can escape us, but we can never escape him. Present or absent, dead or alive, real or imagined, our father is the main man in our masculinity.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Real, Boys

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• I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary fact of things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual. It's sensual. It's alive!

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Life, God, Letting Go

  Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky: The Screenplays”, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

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• No poetic phantasy
  but a biological reality,
  a fact: I am an entity
  like bird, insect, plant
  or sea-plant cell;
  I live; I am alive.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Life, Reality, Cells

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.172, New Directions Publishing

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• Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we - because we don't question these things. And science is the enemy because it is the questioner. Faith saves our souls alive by giving us a universe of the taken-for-granted.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Life, Taken, Science

  Journal entry for 1923. "The Ghost in the Little House" by William V. Holtz. Chapter 7, 1993.

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• Christian bashing is alive and well on college and university campuses also. In fact, it's ever more direct and overt because Christianity is not 'politically correct.' Never has been. Never will be.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Religious, College

  D. James Kennedy (1997). “The Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail: The Attack on Christianity and What You Need to Know to Combat It”, Nelson Reference & Electronic Publishing

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• Now, a good education is about so much more than just learning geometry or memorizing dates in history. All of that is important, but an education is also about exploring new things -- discovering what makes you come alive, and then being your best at whatever you choose

  Michelle Obama

  Education, Important, Geometry

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• The liberal says the end of religion is to make man happy while he's alive. And the fundamentalist says the end of religion is to make man happy when he dies.

  Paris Reidhead

  Men, Ends, Dies

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• I am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future.

  Sonny Rollins

  Writing, Lasting, I'm Alive

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• All over France, in every city there stand cathedrals like this one, triumphant monuments of the past. They tower over the homes of our people like mighty guardians, keeping alive the invincible faith of the Christian. Every arch, every column, every statue is a carved leaf out of our history, a book in stone, glorifying the spirit of France.

  Sonya Levien

  Christian, Book, Home

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• Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.

  Alfred de Musset

  Poet, Dormant, Young

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• Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.

  Zig Ziglar

  Math, Important, Done

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Oct 05, 2014

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• 'Buried Alive' is a little scary, but also a comedy at the same time.

  Tobin Bell

  Scary, Littles, Comedy

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• History
  Coming too close
  Is monstrous, like a doll
  That is alive and bigger than the child
  Who tries to hold it.

  Babette Deutsch

  Children, History, Trying

  Babette Deutsch (1963). “Collected Poems: 1919-1962”

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• To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one's life with due thought for the morrow because no man can be sure he will alive an hour hence.

  Thomas Huxley

  Men, Intellectual, Would Be

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.206, Cambridge University Press

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• Once in his lifetime every artist feels the hand of God and creates something that comes alive.

  Crane Wilbur

  Art, Creativity, Hands

  "Fictional character: Prof. Henry Jarrod". "House of Wax", www.imdb.com. 1953.

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