Defending Life Quotes

Are we defending life when we just pick and choose lives acceptable to lose and which ones to defend? ~ Derek Webb

Those who defend the right to life of the weakest among us must be equally visable in support of the quality of life of the powerless among us: the old and the young, the hungry and the homeless, the undocumented immigrant and the unemployed worker. ~ Joseph Bernardin

If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness
Maybe not, oh, but we can only try. ~ Carole King

Kissed. Worshipped. Seduced. Fucked within an inch of her life. ~ Alessandra Torre

If you live everyday, with the capacity to stretch yourself past limitation and structure, you will find boundless opportunity is all the places that once scared you. ~ Nikki Rowe

You take the work seriously, you don't take yourself seriously. You keep that straight and you'll do well the rest of your life. ~ Clint Eastwood

It's not about how bad or unfair the world is!
It's all about how you take care of your goodness. So don't be the same, try to be fair with this unfair WORLD. ~ Sid

When you are at the right age to play Hamlet you are still to young and immature to play it. It is much later, when you get the life experience and the emotional power, that you understand Hamlet or Macbeth. ~ Anthony Hopkins

I never wanted to end it ... Everything just fell apart. The happiest time of my life turned out to be in my moment of crisis. ~ Yuuki Obata

Meditation is the language of God. If we want to know what God's Will is in our life, if we want God to guide us, mould us and fulfil Himself in and through us, then meditation is the language that we must use. ~ Sri Chinmoy

Feel like the recluse who comes out into the world with a life-saving gospel to find everybody has learned a new language in the meantime and can't understand a word he's saying. ~ Sylvia Plath

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free. ~ Venus Williams

No, they did not bury me, though there is a period of time which I remember mistily, with a shuddering wonder, like a passage through some inconceivable world that had no hope in it and no desire. I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance. I dare say I was not very well at that time. I tottered about the streets - there were various affairs to settle - grinning bitterly at perfectly respectable persons. I admit my behavior was inexcusable, but then my temperature was seldom normal in these days. ~ Joseph Conrad

I'm an optimistic believer in good deeds, surprise endings, and the pleasant twists of life. ~ Josh Walker

Are you trying to live a safe life? The word safe is both an adjective and a noun. As an adjective it means "being free from danger." As a noun it's "an enclosed storage container with a lock." If you're living the adjective, you're living the noun. Don't trap yourself in a cage of false security by trying to avoid rejection. In the long run, building your courage is a smarter choice than running from imaginary dangers. ~ Steve Pavlina

I don't want to be an action star; action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer. I want my career to get longer. ~ Jackie Chan

It is the poor man who clenches so tightly to the gold he is given - for fear of losing it. The man of wealth spends his gold freely to accomplish his will in the world. It is the same with life.'
Suddenly ashamed of my conspicuous poverty, I lowered my eyes. But Scatha placed a hand beneath my chin and raised my head. 'Cling too tightly to your life and you will lose it, my Reluctant Warrior. You must become the master of your life, not its slave. ~ Stephen R. Lawhead

In the longest run of all, your life, you're going to be a winner. ~ Amby Burfoot

Can I persuade you that if you let a driver into your lane, or thank a sales clerk, or smile at someone in a hallway, you can change his or her life? Of course not - but if you don't go through the day with the assumption that small moments and small gestures can touch people's lives, what is the alternative belief? ~ Robert Maurer

Stop rushing. Slow down and enjoy the beauty of life. ~ Debasish Mridha

I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do. ~ Hans Zimmer

Wilson defines biophilia as the urge to affiliate with other forms of life. ~ Richard Louv

There may be another life, and if there is, the best way to prepare for it is by making somebody happy in this. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

This morning from a dewy motorway
I saw the new camp for the internees:
A bomb had left a crater of fresh clay
In the roadside, and over in the trees
Machine-gun posts defined a real stockade.
There was that white mist you get on a low ground
And it was deja-vu, some film made
Of Stalag 17, a bad dream with no sound.
Is there a life before death? That's chalked up
In Ballymurphy. Competence with pain,
Coherent miseries, a bite and sup:
we hug our little destiny again.
-Whatever You Say Say Nothing ~ Seamus Heaney

He could do anything to her, anything, and she'd let him. Maybe even love it, as long as it got him off. It was ridiculous. It was humbling. It was the hottest fucking realization of his life. ~ Kit Rocha

Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of the next are brushed by shadow of the dance. A wedding-party returns from church, and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and the sadness of life are the tragi-comedy of Shakespeare. Gladness and sighs brighten and dim the mirror he beholds. ~ Robert Aris Willmott

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. ~ William Faulkner

Why, then, make a show of the poverty of our life and our sad imperfection, unearthing people from the backwoods, from remote corners of the state? But what if this is in the writer's nature, and his own imperfection grieves him so, and the makeup of his talent is such, that he can only portray the poverty of our life, unearthing people from the backwoods, from the remote corners of the state! So here we are again in the backwoods, again we have come out in some corner! ~ Nikolai Gogol

Life is an accumulation of what your Heart and mind has pondered most, a conclusion of all you wishes, dreams and desires. ~ Steven Redhead

Every travel is sacred. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The song of the years, the melody of life. Everything else - is not you, all others are strangers. And you yourself, who are you? You don't know. You'll get to know it later, when you string the beads of memory. You'll be what is most endearing, most cruel and most eternal. ~ Sasha Sokolov

You can only love, it is impossible to unlove, as you can only drink but never can undrink. ~ Debasish Mridha

I had grown up accustomed to living a life of high drama. ~ Lorna Luft

'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change. ~ Jules Verne

Life stood over me like an immoral schoolmistress, editing my ordered thoughts. But, with a mistaken faith in intelligence, I plodded on. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life. ~ Victoria Justice