"All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something."
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"The universe is alive and conscious, and it responds to our intent when we have our intimate relationship with the universe and see it not as separate but as our extended body."
"Life is the one thing you cannot get out of alive."
"We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission."
"I'm excited to flex my Broadway muscles - it keeps you alive as an actor."
"As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to be burned alive or dismembered in the street."
"The conversation with the dead is one of the great pleasures of life. Somebody who is sitting reading Chekhov, Beckett, reading Toni Morrison - you are not in any way dead, in many ways you are intensely alive."
"like the fox I run with the hunted and if I’m not the happiest man on earth I’m surely the luckiest man alive."
"All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things : That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave"
"She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it"
"I feel vulnerable to the astonishing beauty of being alive and to Mother Nature."
"Is there anybody alive out there?"
"No,' the professor replied. 'Her Majesty s alive and well - at least I assume so if she hasn't met a certain van driver from Yeovil.' ~Professor Hamilton"
"I'm just so grateful, because to feel this vulnerable means I'm alive."
"I am alive again, now that I can no longer stand to live."
"He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he? And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head. He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man."
"A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive."
"We must protect the minority writers because they are the research workers of literature. They keep it alive. It has been fashionable of late to seek out and force such writers into more popular channels, to the detriment of both writer and an unprepared public."
"I'd like to think, that were he alive today, Andy Warhol would be painting the Housewives."
"Women do not avoid fighting because they are dainty or scared, but because they have a greater stake than men in staying alive to rear their offspring. Women compete with each other just as tenaciously as men, but with a stealth and subtlety that reduces their chances of being killed or injured."