Live Quotes

"If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself"

"Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills"

O. Henry, Writer

"Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that"

Lyn Nofziger

"I always tell people I want to live to be 150 and they say why would you want to do that. I say, well there's a few people I haven't made mad yet, I want to get them"

Mike Ditka, Coach

"It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls"

Epicurus, Philosopher

"It is impossible to live a pleasant life without living wisely and well and justly. And it is impossible to live wisely and well and justly without living a pleasant life"

Epicurus, Philosopher

"The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate"

Jessamyn West, Author

"It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind"

Lucretius, Poet

"But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough"

Don Marquis, Journalist

"In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people's perspectives... I really try and live the mission of the company and... keep everything else in my life extremely simple"

Mark Zuckerberg, Businessman

"In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art"

Sallust, Historian

"He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed"

Sallust, Historian

"Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times"

Ben Jonson, Poet

"They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can"

Christian Bale, Actor

"We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery"

Charlie Chaplin, Actor

"Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use"

Mother Teresa, Leader

"Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me"

Walt Whitman, Poet

"I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"To seek the highest good is to live well"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times"

Saint Augustine, Saint

"Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage"

Charlie Chaplin, Actor

"If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

"If you live among dogs, keep a stick. After all, this is what a hound has teeth for-to bite when he feels like it!"

Nikita Khrushchev, Statesman

"You will live your life secure in that you are no longer manipulated by what other people want you to do and be, but are directed by your own inner desires"

H. Stanley Judd, Author

"If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them"

Camille Paglia, Author

"My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'"

Tupac Shakur, Musician

"There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"Man cannot live by incompetence alone"

Charlotte Whitton, Politician

"Muslims should live like brothers"

Abu Bakr, Leader

"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

"You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face"

Ian Fleming, Author

"I never thought I was gonna live to 30"

Patti Smith, Musician

"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

"Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation's promise through civility, courage, compassion and character"

George W. Bush, President

"I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived"

Michelangelo, Artist

"I live and love in God's peculiar light"

Michelangelo, Artist

"I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint"

Michelangelo, Artist

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