Lives Quotes

All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, "You're no good." That's all we get told all our lives. "You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler." It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, "Yeah, you're a great artist," I would have been a more secure person.

Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives.

Whomever lives, gambles with life.

Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

There is continuity between humans and other animals in their emotional lives; there are transitional stages among species, not large gaps; and the differences among many animals are differences in degree rather than in kind

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves.

Beauty lives with kindness.

A light heart lives long.

Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved.

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.