I feel most alive, most electric with faith, breath, and courage, when I think of God as a current that runs through all that is. Not by will or by choice. Not as a benediction but because there are laws even God must obey.
The only one who is alive today and still being talked about is Pierre Cardin.
A sore ankle, a swollen knee or a bruise makes you feel alive.
I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.
People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.
I think it takes a lot of trickery to keep up with the media and its perception of you. I don’t know if I have it in me most of the time to care. The music is made first, and the interviews or photos to keep it alive come later as a necessary evil, I suppose.
The sheik is, thank God, still alive and this hurts Bush who promised to his people to kill Osama.
On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives. More than 400 of those first responders did not make it out alive. In rushing into those burning buildings, not one of them asked, ‘What God do you pray to?’ What beliefs do you hold?’
As a singer, I might have fallen among thieves. I wonder if I’d still be alive by now.
Americans are so stiff when it comes to nudity. For me, I’ve always walked around the house naked. My husband, in real life, is like, ‘Babe, could you just put some clothes on! Keep the mystery alive!’
You are alive, but you should enjoy that while you can. I try to keep that same life philosophy of just enjoying the moments that come my way and not be the one that gets in my own way from making the most of the opportunities that I have.
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
I have an over-attachment to precision, which is why I’ve sold more magazines than any man alive.
I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles.
When we are not sure, we are alive.
By the end of the week, if I’m still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all.
To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings – it’s all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle.
When my father died, my mother was still alive. And I think when your second parent dies, there is that shock: ‘Oh man, I’m an orphan.’ There’s also this relief: It’s done; it’s finished; it’s over.
So here we are, just two months away from the election, with more and more examples that modern day Jim Crowe laws are alive and well in the state of Florida.
It’s a great time to be alive.
Al Qaeda is alive and well in Libya, Iraq, Syria and the wars are not receding.
Even if people pretend that they’re OK with it, jealousy can eat people alive.
When something is new to us, we treat it as an experience. We feel that our senses are awake and clear. We are alive.
Sometimes a book is better than it ever had a right to be because of the history the reader brings to the reading and because of the methods educators use to bring a particular story alive.
But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it’s absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there’s a new generation of musicians.
I feel like the luckiest person alive. I spend my life doing the stuff I love. I’m surrounded by inventive people who are full of energy and life.
You women will live as if father is still alive and in the next room.
I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
A man is as alive as he can communicate.
It takes a long time to drag myself out of bed, and at night I’m buzzing. As a young man it was helpful, but now I’d like to be tired when I go to bed and alive in the morning.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
I can’t imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.
It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should be only organized dust.
To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn’t architecture unless it’s alive. Alive is what art is. If it’s not alive, it’s dead, and it’s not art.
We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.
The spirit of the great outdoors and the spirit of America is freedom – let’s keep freedom alive by preventing woke bureaucrats from trampling on property rights with more land grabs.
My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.
If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what makes a subject come alive.
There isn’t a person alive who doesn’t like being caressed.
Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.
I feel like theatre gives me the grounding, and keeps me alive, basically. Film gives me the thrill, and it’s like a one night stand. But I do enjoy being around people who love it so much.
I have the luxury of being alive and healthy, and I’m very grateful for that.
Because of the increase in life longevity, America can now assume that at any given time three, and perhaps four, former presidents will still be alive, even when the current president is occupying the White House.
I still think that I’m playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It’s interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments.
I didn’t like to stop playing for a second to bother with eating or going to the bathroom. I was a really skinny kid, and I remember my mother always telling people, ‘I don’t know how she’s alive. I think she gets all of her nutrients from air pollution.’
You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
I was alive during the women’s lib movement, and I do not remember anyone taking a position against cooking. I think they were talking about other things.
Their toys are alive and can sometimes come to their aid, or get lost and Olie has to find them. They go to other planets. They go to the ice cream planet.
He’s very alive in a scene. He’s a very good actor to act with. Even though through most of the picture he’s blind, there are many places early in the picture I got to be with him before he was blind. Like convincing him in the office to do the picture.
We never broke up. As long as I’m living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.
On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you’re thinking so fast, you’re thinking so hard, every bit of you is alive to ‘What should I do?’ ‘What can I do?’ There isn’t a lot of time for contemplation.
If you’re going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it.
I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!
What I care about is whether or not a leader will work with America’s working people, whether or not a leader cares about responsibility and honest work and whether or not a leader will fight to keep the American Dream alive.
If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don’t text; don’t e-mail. Call them on the phone.
Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you’re alive.
We should keep silent about those in power; to speak well of them almost implies flattery; to speak ill of them while they are alive is dangerous, and when they are dead is cowardly.
