Alive Quotes - Page 9

• We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.

  Benedetto Croce

  Men, History, Satisfied

  Benedetto Croce (1941). “History as the Story of Liberty”

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• Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Life, Giving, Use

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1973). “Philosophical investigations”

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• Every boy was supposed to come into the world equipped with a father whose prime function was to be our father and show us how tobe men. He can escape us, but we can never escape him. Present or absent, dead or alive, real or imagined, our father is the main man in our masculinity.

  Frank Pittman

  Father, Real, Boys

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• I don't know what's good, or bad, or true. I let God worry about truth. I just want to know the momentary fact of things. Life isn't good, or bad, or true. It's merely factual. It's sensual. It's alive!

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Life, God, Letting Go

  Paddy Chayefsky (1995). “The Collected Works of Paddy Chayefsky: The Screenplays”, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books

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• You have to hope that [good things] happen to you. [...] That's the only thing we really, surely have, is hope. You hope that you can be alive, that things will happen to you that you'll actually witness, that you'll participate in. Rather than life just rolling over you, and you wake up and it's Thursday, and what happened to Monday? Whatever the best part of my life has been, has been as a result of that remembering.

  Bill Murray

  Monday, Over You, Rolling

  "With Bill Murray, Just Take the Trip". Interview With Dave Itzkoff, www.nytimes.com. November 28, 2012.

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• The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred million to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake. How could I have looked him in the face? We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sleep, Men, Expectations

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.142

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• No poetic phantasy
  but a biological reality,
  a fact: I am an entity
  like bird, insect, plant
  or sea-plant cell;
  I live; I am alive.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Life, Reality, Cells

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.172, New Directions Publishing

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• Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog. There is something under our feet, the taken-for-granted. A table is a table, food is food, we are we - because we don't question these things. And science is the enemy because it is the questioner. Faith saves our souls alive by giving us a universe of the taken-for-granted.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Life, Taken, Science

  Journal entry for 1923. "The Ghost in the Little House" by William V. Holtz. Chapter 7, 1993.

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• A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how little they did while you were still alive.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Mean, Remembrance, Littles

  Sandra Bernhard (1989). “Confessions of a Pretty Lady”, HarperCollins

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• Christian bashing is alive and well on college and university campuses also. In fact, it's ever more direct and overt because Christianity is not 'politically correct.' Never has been. Never will be.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christian, Religious, College

  D. James Kennedy (1997). “The Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail: The Attack on Christianity and What You Need to Know to Combat It”, Nelson Reference & Electronic Publishing

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• Now, a good education is about so much more than just learning geometry or memorizing dates in history. All of that is important, but an education is also about exploring new things -- discovering what makes you come alive, and then being your best at whatever you choose

  Michelle Obama

  Education, Important, Geometry

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• The last song I recorded with [Hank Williams, Sr.] was "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive." I remember thinking, "Hoss, you're not just jivin'," because he was so weak that all he could do was sing a few lines and then just fall in the chair.

  Chet Atkins

  Country, Song, Fall

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• After me there are no more jazz singers . . . It's a crime that no little singer is back there sockin' it to me in my field. To keep it going, to keep it alive, because I'm not going to live forever.

  Betty Carter

  Forever, Littles, Singers

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• There are probably brilliant people, geniuses, alive today who don't even know how to say, "Hello, how do you do?" because their minds are absorbed with electronic images.

  Beth Henley

  People, Mind, Live For Today

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• The liberal says the end of religion is to make man happy while he's alive. And the fundamentalist says the end of religion is to make man happy when he dies.

  Paris Reidhead

  Men, Ends, Dies

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• I am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future.

  Sonny Rollins

  Writing, Lasting, I'm Alive

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• There is always a risk in being alive, and if you are more alive, there is more risk.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Risk, Ifs

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• All over France, in every city there stand cathedrals like this one, triumphant monuments of the past. They tower over the homes of our people like mighty guardians, keeping alive the invincible faith of the Christian. Every arch, every column, every statue is a carved leaf out of our history, a book in stone, glorifying the spirit of France.

  Sonya Levien

  Christian, Book, Home

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• Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.

  Alfred de Musset

  Poet, Dormant, Young

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• Being born on the earth is the highest honor and greatest privilege. To be alive as human beings gives us the chance to pull off exquisite and Herculean feats of magic that are not possible in nirvana or heaven or any other so-called paradise, higher dimension, or better place,being alive right now is the greatest gift i got from God.

  Rob Brezsny

  Inspirational, Giving, Heaven

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• It's a miracle that David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are actually still alive today, given how hard they lived.

  Mick Rock

  Miracle, Live For Today, Reeds

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• Your faith is very important. I have done the math, and you are going to be dead a whole lot longer that you will be alive.

  Zig Ziglar

  Math, Important, Done

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Oct 05, 2014

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• 'Buried Alive' is a little scary, but also a comedy at the same time.

  Tobin Bell

  Scary, Littles, Comedy

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• Care, because it is what you do. Care, and be vibrantly alive.

  Ralph Marston

  Care

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• History
  Coming too close
  Is monstrous, like a doll
  That is alive and bigger than the child
  Who tries to hold it.

  Babette Deutsch

  Children, History, Trying

  Babette Deutsch (1963). “Collected Poems: 1919-1962”

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