We shall not understand the history of men and other times unless we ourselves are alive to the requirements which that history satisfied.
It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.
The last time you're doing something - knowing you're doing it for the last - makes it even more alive than the first.
Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.
If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.
I could only relax when there was just one tiny white last spot left. I could see more clearly. I could grasp the shape of the picture again. . . The pictures are alive because of the white remnant, the almost concealment.
I would rate the fact that I get to be alive a big beautiful 10. Satisfaction with myself - work in progress.
It seems to me that all the things we keep in sealed boxes are both alive and dead until we open the box, that the unobserved is both there and not.
And what does it mean -- dying? Perhaps man has a hundred senses, and only the five we know are lost at death, while the other ninety-five remain alive.
That love of movies is very much alive in me.
The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.
There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne - bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive. One only feels really free when one can go in whatever direction one pleases over the plains, to get to the river at sundown and pitch one's camp, with the knowledge that one can fall asleep beneath other trees, with another view before one, the next night.
The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.
The Zionists'. . . main preoccupation is not to save Jews alive out of Europe but to get Jews into Palestine.
With, or despite our scars, we stay alive.
Elation and pain are experiences that make you realize youre alive. Thank God you feel them; otherwise youd be numb.
The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.
Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.