#lived

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it. ↗

— Carl T. Rowan

#ask #because #been #before #believe

If they're singing about heartbreak, they've lived it. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#heartbreak #lived #singing

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#down #high #hostility #level #lived

On the surface we all act like we all love each other and we're free and easy, and actually we're far more moralistic than any other society I've ever lived in. ↗

— Kathy Acker

#actually #any #each #easy #ever

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#find #get #i #just #length

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#been #boundaries #build #compelling #creation

Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative. ↗

— Alfred Adler

#could #creative #death #discourage #ever

We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child. ↗

— James Agee

#disguised #evenings #i #lived #myself

Beside all this I think there was something personal, being Muslim myself who lived in the west I felt that it was my obligation my duty to tell the truth about Islam. It is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about it which surprised me. ↗

— Moustapha Akkad

#being #beside #duty #felt #following

I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated. ↗

— Jean Alesi

#england #english #first #first time #friends