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Lives Quotes by Michael Ondaatje
- For the first forty days a child is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths, a hundred small lessons and then the past is…
- But we were interested in how our lives could mean something to the past. We sailed into the past.
- Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to,…
- For we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives, the way shattered pieces of glass in a kaleidoscope reappear…
- She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back…
- When we are young we do not look into mirrors. It is when we are old, concerned with our name, our legend, what our lives…
- There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at…
- So we came to understand that small and important thing, that our lives could be large with interesting strangers who would pass us without any…
More Lives Quotes
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- We must have a theme, a goal, a purpose in our lives. If you don't know where you're aiming, you don't have… — Mary Kay Ash
- What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange
- Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,… — Chinua Achebe
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of… — David Attenborough
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine
- He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. — Marcus Aurelius
- Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. — Marcus Aurelius