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“...the major objective of Brazilian society is the strengthening of peace. We believe that the ideological conflict between West and East cannot and should not be solved militarily, because if in a nuclear war we saved our lives, we would not be able to save, whether we won or were won, our reason for living".”
João Goulart (1918–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are actors who have a naturally cold aura. I don’t think I’m a big fan of that. You have to talk about people’s lives [in acting]. We probably don’t understand [others] 100 percent. It’s not possible. But I believe that the best method for acting is to love other people. ... I think there has to be warmth toward living beings”
Moon So-ri (born 1974) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Now a director and scriptwriter, actress Moon So-ri speaks about her film" in The Korea Herald (6 September 2017)
“If we were truly Christians, we would not be where we are. How deep is our faith in reality? Numbers are a good thing, but not the most important. If we profess the faith, but the next day set upon our neighbor, and if we take no interest in other people's lives—then we are not fully living our faith.”
Désiré Tsarahazana (born 1954) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Madagascar, Church faces corrupt rule, Islamization (15 June 2018)
“When I started watching movies, I liked that realistic approach. The story in this movie is fictional but I didn't want to compromise in the way I presented the way they are living their lives. I didn't have any storyboards -- I mostly followed them for four years. I became one of them. I wanted the audience to feel the beauty and the freshness that I felt in that village.”
Rima Das (born 1977) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Wrap Article - ‘Village Rockstars’ Director Says Her Acting Struggles Helped Her Oscar Contending Film - 17 November 2018 - Archive
“True, the Christian Church still lives on. But it is only a living power in small groups. Some of its apparent strength is due to its inherited wealth and to the general lack of education. All this, however, is but for the moment.”
John Neville Figgis (1866–1919) said by 1919 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It has not been easy taking care of the internally displaced persons who have been living at our Diocese for about six years now. The people are also tired and they want to start their lives afresh.”
Stephen Dami Mamza (born 1969) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Catholic Diocese in Nigeria to Relocate Boko Haram Victims in Pioneer Housing Project (8 February 2021)
“We are in fact now living in the conditions of a perfect storm and the moment of truth, that very storm and moment of truth that will ensure and protect our interests, and make it so that your lives are better, more comfortable, more stable, and more secure.”
Dmitry Peskov (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Celebrity couples should stop living their lives on twitter and Instagram; it’s ok in the real world for couples to disagree.”
Betty Irabor (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As a country, we have an experience of our people living in other countries as refugees for many years. We know what it means to be a refugee. You don’t need to have all the resources in the world to support the vulnerable and people whose lives are in danger.”
Germaine Kamayirese (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For all of us, becoming indigenous to a place means living as if your children's future mattered, to take care of the land as if our lives, both material and spiritual, depended on it.”
Robin Wall Kimmerer (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The oral tradition is a living body. It is in continuous flux, which enables it to accommodate itself to the real circumstances of a people’s lives.”
Paula Gunn Allen (1939–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The stories had changed. It was as [he] had said, the stories had changed. And our lives had changed. We were living under the machines, and under a changing landscape, which can change you, shift the insides of you. (Roimata, ch23 p151)”
Patricia Grace (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When women are living safe, fulfilled and productive lives, they can reach their full potential and contribute their knowledge and skills to the workforce while raising happier and healthier children, so let us continue to empower women and celebrate their strength, contributions and achievements in our society while protecting them,”
Abed-nego Bandim (born 1977) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Abed-nego Bandim (2023) cited in: MP urges women to overcome obstacles in political career, March-17-2023.
“Hungarian fathers and sons living in Ukraine are also giving their lives in the trenches,”
Katalin Novák (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Hope is part of the human condition and trans people’s hope is our proof that we are fully human. We are not an ‘issue’ to be debated and derided. We are symbols of hope for many non-trans people, too, who see in our lives the possibility of living more fully and freely. That is why some people hate us: they are frightened by the gleaming opulence of our freedom. Our existence enriches this world.”
Shon Faye (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lives are being transformed, and souls are finding purpose and meaning in their faith, not just learning about faith; they are living it.”
Alex Joseph Vadakumthala (born 1959) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jesus Youth India: A missionary call to ‘wake up and reach out!’ (20 October 2023) Vatican News
“I wanted to write about Jos in a way Jos has not been written about. I didn't want to talk about the conflict, the killings. I wanted to talk about how these things happened, how people are still living with it and how it is affecting their lives now, years after they happened.”
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Twenty years of APRC rule has deprived them of opportunities to fulfill their aspirations and achieve their goals. The jobs, quality education, healthcare, and decent living their country failed to provide have driven many to risk everything by crossing the treacherous Mediterranean, where tragically, many lose their lives.”
Isatou Touray (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Parish committees should allocate funds to individuals who are actively involved in their SACCOs, those living below the poverty line, and those who can effectively use the money to improve their lives, as outlined in the guidelines. I have received complaints that some PDM beneficiaries have not received the funds they applied for, despite meeting the criteria.”
Irene Linda Mugisha (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Covid has affected and impacted everything and some of the impacts will be permanent. It will play out on the issues and questions that are affecting people’s lives and living in the most immediate way.”
Funmi Olonisakin (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s completely different to be educated by a community of people who are living these lives.”
Candice Breitz (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Back when I was living in my beautiful homeland, Mauritius, I founded an organisation called S'mily in 2014. S'mily was our local version of 'Make a Wish' in Australia, with a crucial mission - to enhance the day-to-day lives of children suffering from cancer. This experience has greatly impacted my perspective and has inspired me to continue this noble cause here in Australia.”
Nathalie Lesage (born 1993) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“most South Africans love Sne Mtshali. Especially I think that our plus sized queens will start getting off their shells. Living their best thick lives”
Nombulelo Mhlongo (born 1992) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On stage, I dedicate myself to living truthfully. Yet, people try to turn their real lives into a performance. Sometimes I think our roles have been reversed, and when I say this, directors laugh and agree, “That’s true.” It all feels so artificial.”
Namsrayn Suvd (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The lives largely on s throughout the year. These they easily catch during the summer. In winter they dig through the snow for them or catch them as they wander on the surface. may constitute part of the diet and, rarely, the , especially the young. In winter, foxes are often very thin, thus indicating their difficulty of making a living during the season.”
J. Dewey Soper (1893–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I envision equitable healthcare for all Nigerian women, and I involve myself in projects that empower women. The reason is simple, I am a woman, and women in developing countries face so many barriers to living productive and fulfilled lives, poor access to health is just one barrier.”
Matilda Kerry (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What I can tell you for sure is that women who don’t care were just out there living their best lives, marching to the beat of their own drummers.”
Alicia Menendez (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My thought was that I would speak to women who don't give a damn and that they would be off living their best lives.”
Alicia Menendez (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have been a resident of Venice since 2004. For the past five years I have arranged my schedule so that I spend a full six months a year in Venice and a bit under six months in Des Moines. Approximately every two months, I go from one home and existence to the other. Sometimes I feel that I am living two completely different lives, but they are connected, and I love both of them.”
Amy Namowitz Worthen (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe that thoughtful men and women, willing to examine the issues of their own lives and those of our fellow travellers on earth, should in any case be grateful to philosophers such as Tom Regan for their commitment, scientific integrity and passion for something that has to do with what we can still call, in our forms of communal living, possible “progress” in ethics. (p. 12)”
Salvatore Veca (1943–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe the time has come to subject the Palio di Siena , and other competitions in which living creatures are exploited and risk their lives purely for human entertainment, to rigorous scrutiny. And, given what happens time and again, the Palio di Siena can no longer be considered untouchable.”
Michela Vittoria Brambilla (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man alone, of all the creatures on earth, can change his own patterns. Man alone is the architect of his destiny. The greatest revolution in our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives ... It is too bad that most people will not accept this tremendous discovery and begin living it.”
William James (misattributed) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Man alone, of all creatures of the earth, can change his thought pattern and become the architect of his destiny." Actually said by Spencer W. Kimball, twelfth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint…
“Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.”
Denis Diderot (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The reward for living is the living itself.”
Charles Hartshorne (1897–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every thread of creation is held in position By still other strands of things living. In an earthly tapestry hung from the skyline Of smouldering cities so gray and so vulgar, As not to be satisfied with their own negativity But needing to touch all the living as well.”
Don McLean (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature. … In the big cities, there are people who have never seen living nature, all things are products of humans … The bigger the town, the less they see and understand nature.”
Albert Hofmann (1906–2008) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Nearly 100, LSD's Father Ponders his 'Problem Child." (7 January 2006)
“O cool glad pasture; living tree, tall corn, Great cliff, or languid sloping sand, cold sea, Waves: river curving; you, eternal flowers, Give me content, while I can think of you: Give me your living breath! Back to your rampart, Death!”
Harold Monro (1879–1932) said by 1932 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Living", line 36, from Alida Monro (ed.) Collected Poems (London: Duckworth, [1933] 1970) p. 13.
“A woman living with her mother has limited freedom; a man living with his mother has limited freedom and limited respect. For most men, the vacuum (of no support system) is so devastating, they’d rather agree with their wife than express their feelings and risk emotional withdrawal.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In a study of more than twelve thousand teenagers after divorce, children living with single dads fared better than children living with single moms.”
Warren Farrell (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us.”
John Brunner (1934–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How old were you when you knew that there were living poets? Do you remember? In this culture a great many people don't know that there are living poets, or didn't know when I was growing up.”
Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The essential of a real picture is that the things which occur in it occur to him in his peculiarly personal fashion.. ..the idea of modernity is but a new attachment of things universal – a fresh relationship to the courses of the sun and to the living swing of the earth – a new fire of affection for the living essence present everywhere.”
Marsden Hartley (1877–1943) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: statement for catalogue of 1914 exhibition at 291, reprinted in On art, p. 62; as quoted in Marsden Hartley, by Gail R. Scott, Abbeville Publishers, Cross River Press, 1988, New York p. 49
“A living man must have a living God, or his soul will perish in the midst of earthly plenty, and will thirst and die whilst the water of earthly delights is running all around him. We are made to need persons not things.”
Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Only from our stories can we discover that our stories have come to an end, otherwise we would go on living as if there were still something for us to continue (our stories, for example); that is, we would go on living in error.”
Imre Kertész (1929–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.”
John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Living isn't courage, knowing that you're living, that's courage (p16)”
Clarice Lispector (1920–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]erms "vital energy" or "vital force" have disappeared. Energy, like money, has many denominations, but... fixed exchange ratios throughout the universe, whether in the living organism or... non-living world.”
Frederick Soddy (1877–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O, for a living faith in a living Redeemer!”
Richard Fuller (minister) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We need to focus more on how information is managed in living systems and how this brings about higher level biological phenomena... more investigation into how living systems gather, process, store and use information, as was emphasized at the birth of .”
Paul Nurse (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“New York City is a living organism; It evolves, it devolves, it fluctuates as a living organism. So my relationship with New York City is as vitriolic as the relationship with myself and with any other human being which means that it changes every millisecond, that it's in constant fluctuation.”
Timothy Levitch (born 1970) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Cruise (1998)