Alive Quotes - Page 30

• I'm really thankful to be alive. If you get to know me, I'm a person that's always smiling and always joyful and I've been that way since I was born because of the struggles I went through. I was supposed to be number eight that died so I'm always thankful.

  Dwight Howard

  Struggle, Numbers, Eight

  "NBA All-Star Dwight Howard talks about family, faith and destiny". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• 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.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Effort, Way

  Source: content.time.com

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• I feel now, in my impending old age, very lucky. I just can't tell you how lucky I feel, that I've managed to first of all, stay alive this long, in reasonably good health, and that I've been able to do what I want to do.

  Paul Auster

  Long, Age, Firsts

  Interview with Lotte Hansen, www.timeout.com.

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• When spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise.

  Henry Miller

  Travel, Spring, Paris

  Henry Miller (1961). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• You might argue that my example is bad because Einstein is dead. But according to physicist Erwin Schrodinger, Einstein is neither dead nor alive until we dig him up and open the casket. If he's alive, he might want his brain back, which I understand is in a Ziplock bag in some guy's freezer. And this is a perfect example of why examples always distract from the main point.

  Scott Adams

  Death, Suicide, Perfect

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• The engagement of the heart in worship is the coming alive of the feelings and emotions and affections of the heart. Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

  John Piper

  Prayer, Heart, Feelings

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.86, Multnomah

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• The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

  Rosie Thomas

  Harm

  Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.105, The Overlook Press

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• A person who believes that Elvis is still alive is very unlikely to get promoted to a position of great power and responsibility in our society. Neither will a person who believes that the holocaust was a hoax. But people who believe equally irrational things about God and the bible are now running our country. This is genuinely terrifying.

  Sam Harris

  Running, Country, Believe

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• Over 95% of the designers who have ever lived are alive today. Together, we have the power to define what professionalism in the communications industry will be about: helping increase market share or helping repair the World.

  David Berman

  Communication, Together, Live For Today

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• The NRA hates freedom. They don't want you to have the freedom to send your children to school & expect them to come home alive.

  Michael Moore

  Children, Hate, Home

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• To preserve a man alive in the midst of so many chances and hostilities, is as great a miracle as to create him.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Life, Men, Miracle

  The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying Ch. 1, Sect. 1

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• I often prefer the shapes within the raw materials to ‘do their thing’, as this makes it movre interesting for me. Sometimes a piece of hubcap fits in such a way that the shark becomes almost alive in my hands, climbing, twisting or just hanging motionless and predatory, and this gives me a buzz. It makes me feel like a vehicle for the creation process rather than a controller, and not knowing the exact outcome is exciting.

  Ptolemy

  Knowing, Climbing, Sharks

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• Here we are, alive, and you and I will have to make it what we can.

  Geraldine Brooks

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• If I had a ghost living on my street. I would try to stay alive, and offer him some meat!

  Trey Anastasio

  Trying, Meat, Ghost

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• And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down.

  Jack London

  Dog, Animal, Long

  Jack London (2011). “Call of The Wild, White Fang”, p.51, Bantam Classics

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• The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Lying, Body, Noise

  'Procrastination'

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• If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell.

  Robert Stone

  Hurt, Differences, Good Times

  Robert Stone (1997). “Dog Soldiers”, p.320, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We have no idea who we really are. Whatever glory bestowed, whatever glory is being restored, we thought the whole Christian thing was about... something else. Trying not to sin. Going to church. Being nice. Jesus says it is about healing your heart, setting it free, restoring your glory. A religious fog has tried to veil all that, put us under some sort of spell or amnesia, to keeup us from coming alive.

  John Eldredge

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  John Eldredge (2008). “Eldredge 3 in 1 - Sacred Romance , Waking the Dead, Desire”, p.260, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A joyful life isn’t about others; it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that replaces thinking with pure flight, pure joy.

  Martha Beck

  Thinking, Joy, Brightness

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• One gets started, and then, suddenly, one cannot remember what toothpaste they use . . . the moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.

  Graham Greene

  Character, Doe, Use

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• There is no waste in functioning natural ecosystems. All organisms, dead or alive, are potential sources of food for other organisms. A caterpillar eats a leaf; a robin eats the caterpillar; a hawk eats the robin. When the plant, caterpillar, robin, and hawk die, they are in turn consumed by decomposers.

  G. Tyler Miller

  Science, Ecosystems, Robins

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• If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem.

  Philip Levine

  Voice, Reconstruction, Whole

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• Wisdom and love have nothing to do with each other. Wisdom is staying alive, survival. You're wise if you don't stick your finger in the light plug. Love - you'll stick your finger in anything.

  Robert Altman

  Wise, Love You, Light

  "Robert Altman: What I've Learned" by Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Let's pretend that we're human beings and that we're actually alive.

  John Osborne

  Humans, Human Beings

  John Osborne (2014). “Looking Back”, p.358, Faber & Faber

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• No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

  Menander

  Men, Experience, Happens

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