#ives

In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing. ↗

— Clarence Clemons

#answers #calmness #come #find #found

Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#every #every time #excuse #female #idleness

We feel unsatisfied until we know ourselves akin even with that greatness which made the spots on which it rested hallowed; and until, by our own lives, and by converse with the thoughts they have bequeathed us, we feel that union and relationship of the spirit which we seek. ↗

— Jones Very

#bequeathed #converse #even #feel #greatness

This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#alternatives #before #best #conservatives #determine

The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad. ↗

— Stephen Cohen

#acting #alternatives #creating #dangerous #essential

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#characters #knowledge #limited #lives #men

I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#here #i #lives #music #practice

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives. ↗

— Billy Connolly

#always #army #does #go #i

I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#end #hopeless #i #lives #miserable

Every day, hundreds of thousands of men and women protect and serve, often putting their own lives at risk. ↗

— Jerry Costello

#every #every day #hundreds #lives #men