Live Quotes

"Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart"

"I live way out in the country, so there's not a lot of people around to remind me. And my friends don't think of me as 'Kim Novak' anymore anyway. It's like they forgot, too. And so it's nice"

Kim Novak, Actress

"Live by publicity, you'll probably die by publicity"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"Playing live if the thing I love doing best"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity"

Barbara de Angelis, Writer

"When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home"

Tecumseh, Leader

"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"What the New Yorker calls home would seem like a couple of closets to most Americans, yet he manages not only to live there but also to grow trees and cockroaches right on the premises"

Russell Baker, Journalist

"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers"

Mignon McLaughlin, Journalist

"Most people like to read about intrigue and spies. I hope to provide a metaphor for the average reader's daily life. Most of us live in a slightly conspiratorial relationship with our employer and perhaps with our marriage"

John Le Carre, Author

"I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives"

John Le Carre, Author

"I'm sure I'm very difficult to live with because of my make-up and personality"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children"

Jimmy Carter, President

"I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

"In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"Live and die in Aristotle's works"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

"Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields"

Christopher Marlowe, Dramatist

"You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision"

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady

"Live always in the best company when you read"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"Part of that is that New York has proved to be too much fun for me to live and work; I love New York so much"

Beth Henley, Playwright

"Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

"The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness"

Simon Bolivar, Leader

"We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these"

William Dean Howells, Author

"As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"Plan for this world as if you expect to live forever; but plan for the hereafter as if you expect to die tomorrow"

Solomon Ibn Gabriol, Poet

"Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining"

Dwayne Johnson, Actor

"Members of Congress must live according to the same laws as everyone else"

Bobby Jindal, Politician

"You know how fighting fish do it? They blow bubbles and in each one of those bubbles is an egg and they float the egg up to the surface. They keep this whole heavy nest of eggs floating, and they're constantly repairing it. It's as if they live in both elements"

Audre Lorde, Poet

"Sometimes when you make a film you can go away for three months and then come back and live your life. But this struck a much deeper chord. I don't have the ability yet to speak about it in an objective"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore"

Guru Nanak, Philosopher

"Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

"I just moved into the world of Xbox Live. And I've discovered that everyone on the Internet is a lot better than me. I spent half an hour the other day designing a boxer, and I got knocked out twice in the first round"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people"

Richard Leakey, Environmentalist

"One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us"

Philip Zimbardo, Psychologist

"You only can live on adrenaline for so long; one thing is for sure, it doesn't pay the bills"

John Barrow, Politician

"Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

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