Live Quotes

"It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world"

John Steinbeck, Author

"The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it"

Alfred North Whitehead, Mathematician

"Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

"The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom"

George W. Bush, President

"The United States and our allies are determined: we refuse to live in the shadow of this ultimate danger"

George W. Bush, President

"States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live"

George W. Bush, President

"I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger"

George W. Bush, President

"I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom"

George W. Bush, President

"Women... can't live with 'em... can't shoot 'em"

Ivan Turgenev, Novelist

"I live now on borrowed time, waiting in the anteroom for the summons that will inevitably come. And then - I go on to the next thing, whatever it is. One doesn't, luckily, have to bother about that"

Agatha Christie, Writer

"If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud"

Emile Zola, Novelist

"I am an artist... I am here to live out loud"

Emile Zola, Novelist

"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"We live, not as we wish to, but as we can"

Mencius, Philosopher

"I don't get to live by different rules. The same boundaries that apply to everyone apply to me"

Tiger Woods, Athlete

"Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them"

Rita Rudner, Comedian

"You shouldn't get to live in society and give nothing back. People complain about their taxes, yet they do nothing for the community. That makes me furious"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death"

George P. Baker

"I didn't study; I live"

Eric Cantona, Athlete

"For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied"

Susan Sontag, Author

"Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted"

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Poet

"In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day"

Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Leader

"But I love the idea - whether it's in my work or where I live - exploring new frontier, and I like putting myself in strange places and trying to survive and figure things out and gather up an infrastructure. I like knowing that I could figure out a way to live anywhere"

Madonna Ciccone, Entertainer

"Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well"

Kathleen Turner, Actress

"Live to learn, learn to live, then teach others"

Douglas Horton, Clergyman

"The necessary transformation of which I speak and of which my presidency will be a part is built on turning creative possibilities into live realities for all our people"

Michael D. Higgins, Politician

"Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God"

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator

"If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly those moments"

Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Writer

"We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled"

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

"Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently"

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

"We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential"

Barack Obama, President

"Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly"

Jean Baudrillard, Sociologist

"He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world"

Arthur Miller, Playwright

"A playwright lives in an occupied country. And if you can't live that way you don't stay"

Arthur Miller, Playwright

"Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto"

Dale Carnegie, Writer

"A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time"

James Lovelock, Scientist

"To live outside the law, you must be honest"

Bob Dylan, Musician

"Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made"

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

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