The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
When I was in college, it was Jacques Derrida. Everyone was dropping quotes. I remember thinking that was important - and I don't say that it's not now - but we're just living our lives. I don't have time to think about that.
People always seek to compare. They can take the new, but only if it is somehow connected to the familiar. We need that in our lives, the mix of the new and the old. But of course I'm flattered about the comparison with Old man and the sea. Hemingway is a great writer.
You don't tell someone who's mentally ill or struggling, who's having a low time in their lives, to harden up, because it doesn't work.
One lives by memory. . . and not by truth.
Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
[Debt] It has driven thousands to drink, and the worry and anxiety it has created have literally taken the lives of many of our ablest men. It has prostrated individuals, enterprises and nations.
I've found that photographs from different genres can be extraordinarily generous with each other. I started out photographing myself in a landscape, moved on to landscapes with and without other people, and then onto buildings, still lives, portraits, and body parts in rooms. If certain aspects of my production are getting more attention right now I think it is directly linked to a general absence of dreamed bodies in contemporary art. Viewers who mainly follow fashion have most likely not noticed this lack.
I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.
Peace will be realized only by forging bonds of trust between people at the deepest level, in the depths of their very lives.
Whatever a human being makes and makes live, it lives because of the life he puts into it.
Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.
Small events and choices determine the direction of our lives just as small helms determine the directions of great ships.
The sign of vigour, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, the sign of everything that is good, is strength. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, [and strength] in the hand.
At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.
Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.
Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.
There seems to be art and creativity everywhere, whether it was in the galleries of Jaffa or along the streets of Jerusalem. . . the creativity blows my mind because you can see that people want to live their lives to the fullest.
I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.
. . . he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives. . . such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.