Live Quotes

"The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday"

"One must work and dare if one really wants to live"

"Through these ongoing activities and possibly in the future, a Canadian will go live and work on the International Space Station and we will continue to make Canadians proud of our achievements in space"

Marc Garneau, Astronaut

"If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates"

Julia Roberts, Actress

"Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly"

Aeschylus, Playwright

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster"

Isaac Asimov, Scientist

"I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J'aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing"

Coco Chanel, Designer

"Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous"

Coco Chanel, Designer

"The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection"

Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher

"Don't shed any tears for me. I got to live a dream most people don't get to live"

Tony Dungy, Coach

"The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set"

Mitch Hedberg, Comedian

"But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives"

Tony Dungy, Coach

"The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

"Because you know, down deep in my heart, when all is said and done, I still live under the illusion that basically people think of me as an up-and-coming young actor"

Jack Nicholson, Actor

"A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate"

Donald Trump, Businessman

"The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

"Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

"As I live and am a man, this is an unexaggerated tale - my dreams become the substances of my life"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true"

William James, Philosopher

"As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus"

Malcolm Muggeridge, Journalist

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die"

Leonardo da Vinci, Artist

"They talk like angels but they live like men"

St. Jerome, Saint

"This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live"

Omar N. Bradley, Soldier

"Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set"

Adlai Stevenson, Politician

"I'm not resigned, but I'm realistic too. The statistics in my case are very poor. Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long. And the other wager is, the part of the wager, it's a certainty you'll have a terrible time and you may wish you were dying because it's an awful process"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in"

Ken Kesey, Author

"I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

"People should have the choice to be able to live where they want to live, go to school where they want to go to school, marry whoever they want to marry regardless of what their complexion is and so forth"

Ed Smith

"Determine to do some thinking for yourself. Don't live entirely upon the thoughts of others. Don't be an automaton"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

"We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations"

Adlai Stevenson, Politician

"To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance"

Buddha, Leader

"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life"

Buddha, Leader

"We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series"

Robert Louis Stevenson, Writer

"Today is a most unusual day, because we have never lived it before; we will never live it again; it is the only day we have"

William Arthur Ward, Writer

"I try to give the media as many confusing images as I can to retain my freedom. What's real is for my children and the people I live with"

Sting, Musician

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