Best 2279 quotes in «alive quotes» category

The Bush boom is alive and well. It's finishing up its sixth splendid year with many more years to come.

The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes life richer. You feel more alive, less cocooned.

The business of Mr. Bennett's life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennett's was to get them married.

The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action.

The CIA agent looked more dead than alive. Alex wondered if he had been hit, but there was no sign of any blood. Perhaps he was in shock.

The Christ of Theology is not alive for us today. He is wrapped in the grave cloths of dogma.

The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.

The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual’s own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.

The culture stays alive, but certain parts of it die or fail, and that's very interesting to me.

The conversation with the dead is one of the great pleasures of life. Somebody who is sitting reading Chekhov, Beckett, reading Toni Morrison - you are not in any way dead, in many ways you are intensely alive.

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.

The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to represent an infinite shading of meaning. It is a character they share with the Ojibway and the Zulu.

The dreams now were simply of staying alive.

The duty to be alive is the same as the duty to become oneself, to develop into the individual one potentially is.

The days of life pass away like clouds, so do good while you are alive.

The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.

The difference between living and feeling alive, is using your fear as fuel to fly.

The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.

The earth is suffocating... Swear to make them cut me open, so that I won't be buried alive.

The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the case, and that you're glad other people are, without having to spend an entire evening proving it.

The fact that I am still alive after 100,000 laps is my championship.

The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.

The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a lifebelt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet be fully alive.

The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off.

The first time I flew, it was being alive. Nothing was pressing under me. I was living in the fullness of air; air all around me, no holding place to break the air spaces. It's worth everything to be alone in the air, alive.

The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.

The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.

The glory of God is the human person fully alive.

The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

The entrepreneurial opportunity in America is alive and well.

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It's getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again. That's how we know we're alive: we're wrong.

The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive.

The fact that you are even here, alive, on this planet is a mathematical miracle, and you should not spend the time that you have being busy being miserable.

The fact that maybe I had some success playing G'Kar doesn't guarantee me three years later that I can still do it, so I have to keep my senses alive and still be working on it.

The films an audience really enjoys are the ones that were enjoyable in the making. Yet pleasure in the work can’t be achieved unless you know you have put all of your strength into it and have done your best to make it come alive. A film made in this spirit reveals the hearts of the crew.

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

The future belongs to the one most fully alive in the present.

The glory of God is a human being fully alive; and to be alive consists in beholding God.

The glory of God is humankind fully alive.

The gun livens things up. The colonized European comes alive, not to the subject and problem of the violence of our circumstances, but because all armed actions subjects the force of circumstances to the force of events.

The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.

The Goddess is Alive. Magic is afoot.

The highway is alive tonight But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light With the ghost of old Tom Joad.

The heart, when it is too much alive, aches for that brown earth, and ecstasy has no fear of death.

The 'halo effect' is clearly alive and well.

The Hills are alive with the sound of CRAP!

The Hoffman Process brings forth spiritual leadership in a person. It made my spirituality come alive. Through the Hoffman Process I actually brought my faith into my daily actions.

The ideal is to live forever, right? Or to live right now and just be grateful that I feel good. I'm definitely grateful for every second that I'm alive. At this point in my life, I definitely take time out throughout the day to just stop and be like, "Everything is cool." It's as good as it's gonna be, because it only gets worse.