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How can our kids really understand the moral complexities of being alive if they are not allowed to engage in those complexities outdoors?
You look down when you talk to a headstone! When you talk to a live person, you look up! I'm still alive! So treat me like it! Look at me!
You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?
To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That's the reason I'm still alive.
We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.
Yes, I'm alive," Mat said. "I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.
Spending a weekend with Hitler would have been boring in the extreme, although you would have had a greater certainty in coming back alive.
To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.
Neglecting your health is the equivalent to spitting in the face of everyone fighting to stay alive and of those who have lost their fight.
That seems to me the greatest American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.
It's hard to keep a play alive moment-to-moment, you know? But there's another part of it that I really love, which is that you never know.
I still can't believe I won the Olympics. That's what I feel right now - completely alive as a human being. It's a really beautiful moment.
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You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it must look like a grimace. Peeta's alive.
You're pretending this isn't your life. You think it's going to happen some other time. When you're dead you'll realise you were alive now.
People from New York have been calling, to see if I'm still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the disappointment in their voice.
The world is kept alive only by heretics: the heretic Christ, the heretic Copernicus, the heretic Tolstoy. Our symbol of faith is heresy...
One of the most important things in politics is you've got to keep your mind infinitely curious and alive to what is happening differently.
I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.
If you can stay alive and enjoy life, that's the whole heart and soul of life. That's why I played with a smile on my face all these years.
The '90s were indeed a great time to be alive. There was a sense of optimism that I never felt before that decade and I haven't felt since.
Family is the most important thing in the world. If everything ended tomorrow and my family was still there, I'd be the happiest man alive.
The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.
It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive!
The youngster in me is still alive and kicking. I was infected by music at a very young age, so it's always kept me younger than springtime.
Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic.
Even the most mundane objects are things of wonder, if we stop to look at them, and the fact that we are alive is the biggest wonder of all.
if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.
When asked "If you could meet any famous person living or dead," I always ask whether the dead person would be alive again when I meet them.
I read an article that said one in five Americans thinks Elvis is alive. I want to find those morons and get them registered to vote for me.
What if a puppet could cut its own strings, and in that act of defiance and strength of will become truly alive? Become is own puppetmaster?
I was in my yard and thought that the tree was a living being. We take trees for granted. We don't believe they are as much alive as we are.
If the Christians who were alive in the 1770s behaved and believed like the Christians of today, there wouldn't be an America as we know it.
Relationships are like sharks. They've got to keep going into deeper, colder water, sometimes scarier, darker territories ... to stay alive.
The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.
The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang out with politicians.
When the love of your life dies, the problem is not that some part of you dies too, which it does, but that some part of you is still alive.
Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
I past another telkhine, who was so startled he dropped his Lil' Demons lunch box. I left him alive - partly because he had a cool lunch box.
As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere along the way it all changed. Living turned me into nothing.
Remember the plants, trees, animal life who all have their families, their histories too. Talk to them, listen to them. They are alive poems.
I am always saying "Glad to've met you" to somebody I'm not at all glad I met. If you want to stay alive, you have to say that stuff, though.
Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.
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.
I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
Bob Dylan tends not to have geographical or chronological markers that tie a song to any specific context, so they stay alive, stay relevant.
Good leaders must communicate vision clearly, creatively, and continually. However, the vision doesn't come alive until the leader models it.
If we can't keep our Palestinian neighbors and Muslim neighbors alive with good water and fresh air, we'll never get them to the peace table.
The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.
The box got bigger, the outside, the buildings. And all that we were doing. I had to raise about $1 million every two days just to stay alive.