Top 1200 Our Lives Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?

Everything in life requires a bit of faith, but for me it is knowing what is going on inside my head, inside my soul, and in both our personal lives and professional lives, we need to know how we are, to be able to have a good life.

In the existence of our lives, there is a single coincidence that brings us together and for a moment, our hearts beat as one.

And we're also remembering the guiding light of our Judeo-Christian tradition. All of us here today are descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, sons and daughters of the same God. I believe we are bound by faith in our God, by our love for family and neighborhood, by our deep desire for a more peaceful world, and by our commitment to protect the freedom which is our legacy as Americans. These values have given a renewed sense of worth to our lives. They are infusing America with confidence and optimism that many thought we had lost.

Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or fame. It is the ultimate test of our character. It requires climbing out of the deep valleys of our lives and scaling our own Mount Everests.

The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.

We're each our own person, we live our own lives, make our own mistakes, learn from them and move forward.

Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own.

We make choices. No one else can live our lives for us. And we must confront and accept the consequences of our actions.

Guru Nanak Dev lives in our hearts. He is our common legacy. He is the guiding light for the entire humanity.

I feel, we actors are out there a lot, and people are hell bent on trying to create perceptions of our lives. We tend to influence people through our lifestyles or mannerisms. It is important that we be honest about our emotions.

We never lose our loved ones. The accompany us; they don't disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.

It is important for those of us who are Christian to remember that our physical lives don't last forever. Our souls will last an eternity, and thus we should place even more emphasis on the health of our souls than the health of our bodies.

Wi-fi and all the systems we are introducing into our lives are destroying our own natural electro-magnetic fields.

The discovery that it is in our power to change our lives by the thoughts we think is the first step toward spiritual mastery.

Our world and our lives have become increasingly interdependent, so when our neighbour is harmed, it affects us too. Therefore we have to abandon outdated notions of 'them' and 'us' and think of our world much more in terms of a great 'US', a greater human family.

Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us. How dare we let it into our decision-making, into our livelihoods, into our relationships. It's funny, isn't it? We take a day a year to dress up in costumes and celebrate fear.

Our ability to do great things with data will make a real difference in every aspect of our lives.

So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

The death penalty exacts a terrible price in dollars, lives and human decency. Rather than tamping down the flames of violence, it fuels them while draining millions of dollars from more promising efforts to restore safety to our lives.

Half our days we pass in the shadow of the earth; and the brother of death exacteth a third part of our lives.

All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That's the way we go through our lives. Everybody.

Of course, everybody's family is dysfunctional - we've accepted that. What are we supposed to do? Hate our parents for the rest of our lives?

If we want to make a change in our lives, we should first focus on our personal attitudes and behaviors.

God's role in superintending our world and our lives is neither absentee landlord nor micromanager.

None of us knows how long he shall live or when his time will come. But soon, all that will be left of our brief lives is the pride our children feel when they speak our names.

Thinking about time is to acknowledge two contradictory certainties: that our outward lives are governed by the seasons and the clock; that our inward lives are governed by something much less regular-an imaginative impulse cutting through the dictates of daily time, and leaving us free to ignore the boundaries of here and now and pass like lightning along the coil of pure time, that is, the circle of the universe and whatever it does or does not contain.

Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.

We have the right to be angry about our representation in the media. It's just not a reflection of how we live our daily lives.

This life is only one of a series of lives which our incarnated part has lived. I have little doubt of our having pre-existed; and that also in the time of our pre-existence we were actively employed. So, therefore, I believe in our active employment in a future life, and I like the thought.

There is no question that if one were to ask whether we Americans are moving towards more liberty or more government control over our lives, the answer would unambiguously be the latter - more government control over our lives. We might have reached a point where the trend is irreversible and that is a true tragedy for if liberty is lost in America, it will be lost for all times and all places.

Much certainly of the happiness and purity of our lives depends on our making a wise choice of our companions and friends. If our friends are badly chosen they will inevitably drag us down; if well they will raise us up.

Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest of our lives... but a kaleidoscope of experiences that, when viewed through different lenses, can 'color' (change) how we see our present and future.

The end point of leadership is not just the position of power we reach, but the continual change and deepening we experience that makes a difference in our lives, our work, our world. Our leadership journeys are only at midpoint when we have achieved a position of power.

Good intentions are simply not enough. Our character is defined and our lives are determined not by what we want, say or think, but by what we do.

Technology improves our lives in so many ways - from our toasters, ovens, and refrigerators at home to our computers, fax machines, and BlackBerrys at work. Technology makes once-burdensome tasks easy and fun.

When top scientists and psychologists talk about what's important to our overall wellbeing and how satisfied we are with our lives, the only thing that they all agree on is that social relationships are probably the single best predictor of our overall happiness.

Ethics is a code of values which guide our choices and actions and determine the purpose and course of our lives.

Transportation is the center of the world! It is the glue of our daily lives. When it goes well, we don't see it. When it goes wrong, it negatively colors our day, makes us feel angry and impotent, curtails our possibilities.

By electrifying our lives, we reduce our energy costs by 39 percent, which is a huge savings in itself.

We live in a mystery. Our lives have flowed from exploding stars, from tides of time and gravity beyond our ken.

We all obsess about what we are doing and accomplishing. What if we let it go and simply made the way we live our lives our accomplishment?

I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.

While we always try to hide our fears, they keep chasing us all through our lives.

The divers were the bravest of us. They gave their lives for the independence of our country and the success of our revolution.

I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness.We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own values, and our own interests.

The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in.

The more we're doing to ensure we're following our joy and passion, that's when we really start to put the gas in our lives.

The only difference between the Coyotes and 'Days of Our Lives' is that nobody has been shot on our team yet.

It is in our nature to enjoy atrocity so long as it continues to shock and remains comfortably removed from our own lives.

It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the colour of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking.

We are here on earth to work-to work long, hard, arduous hours, to work until our backs ache and our tired muscles knot, to work all our days. This mortal probation is one in which we are to eat our bread in the sweat of our faces until we return to the dust from whence we came. Work is the law of life; it is the ruling principle in the lives of the Saints.

Today Washington is our Hollywood, the Senate our Warner Bros., the White House our Beverly Hills. People who never read a line of a movie magazine deal with the lives of leaders as if they were Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.

We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.

As public officials, we have a duty to protect all of our communities and our number one priority must be saving lives.

I think we need more ambition about using our data to make our lives better.

O great creator of being grant us one more hour to perform our art and perfect our lives.

MTV wanted to downplay our lifestyles and pretend we weren't getting the checks that we actually were, so I think that was the blurry line between the lives we were really living and the lives that they wanted us to live, and things like that.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.