#lives

Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower. ↗

— William C. Bryant

#beyond #earth #flower #hour #little

In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything. ↗

— Harold Brodkey

#alone #always #anything #difficult #guess

I've always been interested in past lives, because they're earmarks of what creates us. ↗

— Sylvia Browne

#because #been #creates #earmarks #i

The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

#basic #because #collapses #culture #embraces

The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one of us. ↗

— James Lee Burke

#every #good #jesus #knight #lives

Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you. ↗

— Rufus Wainwright

#been #believe #cuts #explore #fog

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all. ↗

— Lord Byron

#each #great #had #hopes #i

Our extended family is an integral part of our daily lives and Connie and I welcome you with open arms. ↗

— Frank Jordan

#connie #daily #daily lives #extended #extended family

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#arguing #believing #debating #lives #man

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#elbow #giving #himself #lives #man