There is a level of positive anger that needed to be alive and to make a head way in this life.
I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.
Acceptance is not love. You love a person because he or she has lovable traits, but you accept everybody just because they're alive and human.
The Keynesian idea is once again accepted that fiscal policy and deficit spending has a major role to play in guiding a market economy. I wish Friedman were still alive so he could witness how his extremism led to the defeat of his own ideas.
The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.
The achiever is the only individual who is truly alive.
Every acorn on the ground is just as alive as the three-hundred-year-old oak tree that towers over it.
All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.
Imagine if Steve Jobs or Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein were all alive 10, 20, 30 years before we know them to be alive; it would have advanced the world that much sooner.
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! Thy father, if he had been alive, durst not have used that word.
There is no denying that Hitler and Stalin are alive today... they are waiting for us to forget, because this is what makes possible the resurrection of these two monsters.
If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.
FDR's justices were allies while he was alive, but after he died, they developed four totally different theories of what the Constitution is, two of which are considered conservative and two of which are considered liberal.
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.
Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
There's place and means for every man alive.
