Alive Quotes - Page 35

• We need another universe, a smaller one; with more Earth's and less Saturn's; more alive and less dead!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Needs, Earth, Saturn

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• We have to learn to die in every moment in order to be fully alive.

  Nhat Hanh

  Order, Moments, Dies

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• Speaking as one who has abused privilege a long time, I tell you, it's great to be alive.

  Warren Zevon

  Long, Privilege, Long Time

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• Memory is a dead thing. Memory is not truth and cannot ever be, because truth is always alive, truth is life; memory is persistence of that which is no more.  It is living in ghost world, but it contains us, it is our prison.  In fact it is us.  Memory creates the knot, the complex called the I and the ego

  Rajneesh

  Memories, Persistence, Ego

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• There's no man, alive or dead, who's going to fault you for living.

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan

  Men, Faults

  "Fictional character: William". "P.S. I love you", www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• We are alive and need to take risks. And if we fail, so what? Who cares? It doesn't matter. Learn and move on without judgement.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Moving, Judgement, Risk

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• We are only alive to the degree that we can let ourselves be moved.

  Lewis Hyde

  Degrees, Moved

  Lewis Hyde (2006). “The Gift: How the Creative Spirit Transforms the World”, p.21, Canongate Books

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• Remember to build each other up, to strengthen and sustain, to keep companionship lovely and alive. Remember dignity and respect; understanding; not expecting perfection; a sense of humor and a sense of what is sacred and serious; common purposes, common convictions, and the character to stay with a bargain, to keep a covenant - in these are the making of a good and solid marriage.

  Richard L. Evans

  Character, Common Purpose, Perfection

  Richard L. Evans (1973). “Richard L. Evans--the man and the message”

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• When white men first effect contact with some unspoilt race of savages, they offer them all kinds of benefits, from the light of the gospel to pumpkin pie. These, however, much as we may regret it, most savages receive with indifference. What they really value among the gifts that we bring to them is intoxicating liquor which enables them, for the first time in their lives, to have the illusion for a few brief moments that it is better to be alive than dead.

  Bertrand Russell

  Regret, Men, Light

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Human Society in Ethics and Politics”, p.165, Routledge

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• Memory is not frozen, it's very much alive, it moves, it changes.

  Louis Malle

  Memories, Moving, Frozen

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• In twenty years' time I'll be eighty-three, just an old man with a stick moving like a sloth bear. While I'm alive, I am fully committed to autonomy, and I am the person who can persuade the Tibetan people to accept it.

  Dalai Lama

  Moving, Men, Years

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• It's like athletes: To be a great company you need great competitors...It's what keeps you alive and keeps you honest.

  Craig R. Barrett

  Athlete, Needs, Honest

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• All of us alive today are or can be its prey, most of all the person who believes he is creating works of art when he is in fact creating mere kitsch objects.

  Gillo Dorfles

  Art, Believe, Creating

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• Actors are such wonderful creatures and such wonderful instruments. It's always different on the page, or in my head. I hear it differently. I see it differently. And then, you give it to an actor and it comes alive, in a way that you didn't expect.

  Kelly Masterson

  Giving, Different, Actors

  Source: collider.com

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• The medics generally see the worst of the worst. They see everything. They're working on their friends, and they're working on their enemy. The person that was just firing at them, trying to kill them, five minutes ago, if an Army medic stumbles upon him and he's still alive, he just goes to save his life.

  Brendan Fehr

  Army, Enemy, Trying

  "Brendan Fehr Talks THE NIGHT SHIFT, Research for the Role, ROSWELL 15th Anniversary, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2014.

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• Fashion needs incredible women, alive, stimulating, with style like Diana Vreeland. She is the most. The way she talks expresses all her values.

  Gianni Versace

  Fashion, Style, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback. People find them, they like them, and they pass them on.

  James Purdy

  Book, People, Facts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Teaching, Perfection, World

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• Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.

  Anne Lamott

  Hardest, Learning To Love

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.196, Penguin

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• I detest tradition for tradition's sake; the half-alive; that which is not real. I feel no hatred of individuals, but of customs, traditions; superstitions that go against life, against truth, against the reality of experience, against the spontaneous living out of the sense of wonder-of fresh experience, freshly seen and communicated.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Real, Hatred, Half

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• As far as I've been alive, women have always been more or less the symbol of sexuality rather than the male. We don't see the naked male body, as the symbol of sex.

  Raquel Welch

  Sex, Males, Naked

  "Howard Smith: The counter-cultural correspondent's interviews from Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda to Raquel Welch". New York radio show, www.independent.co.uk. October 18, 2015.

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• You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything.

  Chuck Close

  Giving, Guarantees, Recipes

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• While it is tempting to play it safe, the more we're willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Regret, Play, Risk

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• It is an occupational hazard of devout folk to become stuffy bores. This should not be. Of all people, we should be the most free, alive, interesting.

  Richard J. Foster

  People, Interesting, Hazards

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• Running has made my life worthwhile. I used to be more dead than alive after the personal tragedy in my life.

  Fauja Singh

  Running, Tragedy, Used

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