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“So how can we continue to help-be tuning forks in some way? I guess that's the job of writers. We're tuning forks. We strike a note and it's not what we sing, so much, just that we strike this note-and then that note resonates in someone else's life, maybe they hear a harmonious note in their own lives.”
Naomi Shihab Nye (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Please include me on the list of foreign agents of my dear country, as I agree with my husband, an honest, decent and genuine man, a real patriot of Russia who cannot be bought, who wishes prosperity, peaceful life, freedom of speech to his Homeland and who wants our boys to stop dying for illusory goals that make our country a pariah and that make the lives of our citizens harder.”
Alla Pugacheva (born 1949) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Said during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, quoted in "Famous Russian singer Alla Pugacheva asks to include her on ‘foreign agent’ list alongside her husband, TV presenter Maxim Galkin", Novya Gazeta, 18 September…
“Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.”
Annie Ernaux (born 1940) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Melodrama after the tears, ed. Jörg Metelmann and Scott Loren (Amsterdam University Press, 2016), p. 178
“Women politicians have shone a spotlight on women’s everyday lives and the need to find a good work-life balance”
Erna Solberg (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I was a little girl, I believed that my life would somehow be different from the lives of everyone around me”
Huma Abedin (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We need to be good at sex ourselves so that if the world happens to come knocking we can tell the story of God in our lives. We can say, ‘I have a great marriage and a great sex life’ … wink, wink, nudge, nudge.”
Bobbie Houston (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“.... I love Genevieve and how she has strategically positioned herself. She also lives a quiet and modest life. I love Mo Abudu, how she comes from the media and has changed the narrative for arts and film. How she is tenacious in pushing the African narrative to the world.”
Omowumi Dada (born 1989) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: People she admires in the sector (October 2020)
“It is good from this point of view that the patient should know the home of the nurse, and that the nurse should be intelligent about the housing conditions, the educational provisions, and the social life of the neighborhood in which she works and lives.”
Lillian Wald (1867–1940) said by 1940 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ensuring road safety starts with you by valuing your lives and those you transport. If you feel your life is not worth anything, then you are in a wrong profession.”
Winifrida Mpembyemungu (born 1972) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mpembyempungu noted, Rwanda National Police (09 October 2014)
“Now, she's one of the great ladies I know. She went through a lot of heartache and stuff but she's got her own life now. She lives in Palm Springs and we go to see her all the time.”
Tatum O'Neal (born 1963) first seen 1978 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Young Tatum talk about her mother in 1978.
“You know I think all of us in life are constantly — at different points in our lives — confronted with situations where we have to make choices which define us. And you know that you have to remain a morally upstanding person.”
Mira Sorvino (born 1967) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mira talk about lessons from watching film in 2012.
“I’m an advocate of don’t let what you see on social media influence your life. You cannot tell what goes on in the lives of people so don’t set a standard for yourself based on what you see”
Jumoke Odetola (born 1983) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I began writing fiction because our lives are made up of stories and a story can change a life. (2020)”
Linda Hogan (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My late husband and I loved God’s word and after his demise, the Bible remains my most important source of comfort and encouragement; by the word of God, you can overcome any challenge that you face in life and it will help you take responsibility of your own lives.”
Ernestina Naadu Mills first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mrs Naadu Mills launches SHS Bible Project", (10 June 2013)
“I want to entrust everything of what I am and what I do in the hands of God. Unless God works nothing will work both in my life as well as in the lives of the people of my diocese.”
George Rajendran Kuttinadar (born 1968) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Episcopal Ordination of Bishop Rajendran Kuttinadar (17 September 2012) Agenzia iNfo Salesiana
“WHY WRITE? Reasons to do : • Societal progress • Scientific progress • Enrich people's intellectual lives • Enrich your own intellectual life”
Natalie Wolchover wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But if life is lost, that is the end of that person. To stay alive therefore is more important than to put lives at risk in the name of going to school.”
Chinwe Obaji wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be Christian is to walk with Christ on His way, without dodging Golgotha in the impregnable confidence that the evils that can mark our lives and those of the world are known by Christ, taken in Him in the gift He makes of His life. And that thus they are held in the power of His Resurrection, which delivers us from fear and despair.”
Anne-Marie Pelletier (born 1946) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: INTERVIEW: Anne-Marie Pelletier, Who Pope Entrusted to Write Meditations for Via Crucis at Colosseum, Speaks on 'The Victory of Love' (11 April 2017) Zenit
“We need to think about globalization as being much more than structural adjustment policies by the World Bank, or the economic policies of the IMF which have devastated so many societies and lives; or just the financial infrastructure through which life becomes financialized on behalf of speculative capital which currently rules the world; the markets and all that.”
Patricia McFadden (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She thought: How hard it is to change one’s life. And again she thought: How terrifyingly simple to change the lives of others.”
Cynthia Ozick (born 1928) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Foreign Bodies (2010), p254
“The Catechism is a safe and authentic reference text for the teaching of Catholic Doctrine. One can know what the Church professes and celebrates, lives and prays in its daily life. For this reason, I decided to translate it into Umbundu. It was very difficult because it concerned philosophical, theological, scientific and bioethical terms.”
Francisco Viti (1933–2023) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ANGOLA: The Catechism of the Catholic Church now translated into Umbundu (14 December 2019) Vatican News
“Only the community can stop drug trafficking, and it is our responsibility however you look at it. After all, those junkies are our brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers, neighbors and friends; they are no strangers. We must organize to save their lives and the life of our community.”
Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I consider my views to be progressive, democratic, and humanitarian. ...[W]e could restructure the economy ...to improve our lives by focusing on increasing our life satisfaction instead of on income growth.”
John Komlos (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every follower of Jesus has a role to play in evangelization and spreading the faith. People need to be formed in missionary consciousness; the lay faithful can reach out to so many different people in different walks of life, giving witness of how important the Lord is in their own lives.”
John Francis Doerfler (born 1964) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Bishop Doerfler: “Every follower of Jesus has a role to play in evangelization” (25 February 2018) Catholic World News
“If we could get to a place of true equality, where what we do in life is determined not by gender but by our passions and interests, our companies would be more productive and our home lives not just better balanced but happier.”
Sheryl Sandberg (born 1969) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We do all this to change people’s lives. We are in this world but you know this world is not really perfect, but what we have to do is to try and just do something which can change someone’s life.”
Aline Gahongayire (born 1986) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: https://www.newtimes.co.rw/article/184697/Lifestyle/video-gahongayire-on-music-life-and-initiatives-to-empower-women-girls ( March 17, 2021)
“Until you put on those big girl pants, just crawl back into trophy and borrowed life and let hardworking people breathe and appreciate their self-made lives.”
Georgina Onuoha (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My aspirations in the next years to come is to see Nigeria improve for the better, to see good things happening in the country and for our youths to eschew violence and embrace good values and principles that will develop them and the nation at large. I also intend to continue to touch lives positively through my music and my life.”
Christy Essien Igbokwe (1960–2011) said by 2011 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We’ve built this amazing life for ourselves, and sometimes I feel like it can be a curse,” she said. “Sometimes, I feel like I’ve helped build something that can also be a burden. The haters, they’re so brutal sometimes. And I feel bad that I brought this element to our lives. It’s hard, it’s a struggle.”
Kris Jenner (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life is beautiful. We are the architects of our lives.”
Jumoke George first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How I was disowned by my father, rejected by mum at 8 — Olajumoke George. 22 July 2018, The Tribune
“I believe that when you touch a life, you add value. And when you support someone, you make an impact in their lives.”
Ayisat Yusuf (born 1985) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Service in the military is a way of life. Every day, the people you work with and for all have a common bond: we took a solemn oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States. At its core, we swore to give our lives if necessary to defend the country. There is no higher calling.”
Larry O. Spencer (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dialogue of action, if it is to be truly effective, must be nourished by every other form of dialogue - dialogue of theological discourse, dialogue of religious experience, dialogue of life. Only then will religion touch deeply the lives of people, answer their deepest needs and thus fulfill its own true function.”
Peter Seiichi Shirayanagi (1928–2009) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: - H. Em. Card. Peter Seiichi SHIRAYANAGI, Archbishop of Tokyo (21 April 1998) Press Office of the Holy See
“(Kindness) is a little precious secret, with simple acts of kindness we may improve our life and other people’s lives… and change the world.”
Elisabetta Dami (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Without goals to aim for and without any figures on the horizon in whom we can crystallize our life and our need for encouragement and for example, what would our lives be?”
Federica Montseny (1905–1994) first seen 1928 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Max Nettlau, or The Choice of Modesty" (1928)
“Well, that happens in fairy tales, doesn’t it? In real life, when a manager fucks up and ruins a million working people’s lives, when he bungles so badly the company loses a decade’s profits, his Christmas bonus turns up a little short. That’s all.”
William Barton (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Radio is an important tool in the lives of human beings because it depends on the knowledge of human beings. It gives us a chance to listen to songs, stories. It gives us a chance to share opinions and a space to talk about life around us.”
Rebecca Joshua Okwaci (born 1960) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ethical responsibility ... involves more than leading a decent, honest, truthful life, as important as such lives certainly remain... Our moral obligations ... must include a willingness to engage others in the difficult work of defining what the crucial choices are that confront technological society and how intelligently to confront them.”
Langdon Winner (born 1944) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Winner, L. (1990), Engineering Ethics and Political Imagination, in Paul T. Durbin (ed.), Broad and Narrow Interpretations of Philosophy of Technology, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers Group, p. 62
“If one thinks of nonviolence as a way of life, then it works to the extent that one lives nonviolently and infuses everyday conduct with a nonviolent spirit...whether we act nonviolently, considerately, and respectfully of others in all that we do is within our control. Nonviolence in that sense cannot fail to work if we resolve to see that it works.”
Robert L. Holmes (born 1935) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Robert L. Holmes, The Ethics of Nonviolence: Essays by Robert L. Holmes, Editor: Predrag Cicovaki, (2013) p. xx
“I didn’t see the point, personally, of working for any corporation my whole life, where I would not be able to impact people’s lives and engage in endeavours that matter to me.”
Wanjiku Chebet Kanjumba wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can use science to solve the most critical problems faced by society. You save lives, you improve the quality of life, you tackle environmental issues and so on. What other profession can be more rewarding than this?”
Segenet Kelemu (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This sounds cliche, but I’m just always driven by this need for social justice. I do feel like, on one hand, that digital tech has the ability to transform people’s lives in terms of improving their life experiences and how they interact with governments, how governments provide services, how you receive education, how you receive entertainment, and how you work.”
Neema Iyer wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am grateful for what science has already brought to people's lives. My mother had open-heart surgery, and her life was saved. There are no borders in science, people are equal: scientists are not separated by color, gender, religion, or money”
Zohra ben Lakhdar (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think that misperceptions are always going to be part of our lives. I also think that diversity is meant to be our key challenge in life.”
Azza Karam (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“.. most people think of science as technology and engineering—life-saving drugs, computers, space exploration, and so on... It is less commonly understood that social and behavioral sciences have also produced technologies and engineering that dominate our everyday lives. These include polling, marketing, management, insurance, and public health programs.”
H. Russell Bernard (born 1940) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The science in social science" PNAS 109 (51) pages 20796-20799 (December 3, 2012)
“In life, as in pictures, there is only the Romantic. Behind the scenes of our lives, there is everything unspoken, unseen, unknown and nothing.”
Deborah Poynton (born 1970) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m still passionate and busy in the world of sport and about the impact it can have on people’s lives. I feel that it is my purpose in life, to use sport to impact people in a positive way,”
Derartu Tulu (born 1972) first seen 1992 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reunited: Derartu Tulu and Elana Meyer remember iconic 'lap 26' at Barcelona 1992 Olympics,27 September 2022,By Andrew Binner
“Victor made another series of large smoke drawings of farm animals on glass called "Brief Lives", which were displayed in an abandoned abattoir. The glass drawings deal with the loss of body and identity and the nature of the smoke speaks of the transience of life.”
Diane Victor (born 1964) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: DAVID KRUT PROJECTS, Brief Lives: new smoke drawings on by Diane Victor. 2011/09/07 (2011/09/23) by Juliet White. Retrieved 28 March 2025.
“A Woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.”
Nita Barrow (1916–1995) first seen 1916 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Barrow, Nita (1916–1995) Retrieved 1 April 2025
“I’m afraid for my life and the lives of my family.”
Amina Tyler (born 1994) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source