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The only way to find out anything about what kinds of lives people led in any given period is to tunnel into their records and to let them speak for themselves.

Quote by John Dos Passos about nation, people

While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain.

Quote by Ed Pastor

But when you're out there, trying every day to improve people's lives, I don't think there's any higher calling.

Quote by George Pataki about day, people, contentment

If someone lives in New York, he's a New Yorker - they are entitled to the best medical system in the world.

Quote by George Pataki about opinion, world

We will never forget 9/11, the loss of lives and the tragedy. The heroism of people will remain with us for a life.

Quote by George Pataki about opinion, heroism, tragedy, life, people

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

Quote by Cesare Pavese about children, recollection, imagination, faith, world, life

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about criminals

He that lives to forever, never fears dying.

Quote by William Penn about life

Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.

Quote by William Penn about justice

We don't want a busybody government a boss that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.

Quote by Sonny Perdue about politics, heads, chance, work

We want a state wise in its contemplation just in its action and moderate in the reach of government into our lives.

Quote by Sonny Perdue about state, action

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.

Quote by Pericles about earth, symbol, man

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Quote by Pericles about contentment

Internet is like a city...there lives a very smart old man, called Google... He is a spirit.

Quote by George Pruteanu about internet, intelligence, city, old, olderness, spirit, man

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

Quote by Bertrand Russell about love, solitude, sex, man

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Quote by Charles Montesquieu about opinion, future

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about politics, interest, peace

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about poetry, feelings, time, being

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

Quote by Walt Disney about film, influence

No life can be compared to another Life unless both refer to Death! Even if a Life is different from another Life, it exists, as Life, only by referring to Death, because all other Lives it would refer to finally lead to the last referent which is...

Quote by Sorin Cerin about life, death