Live Quotes

"Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves"

"Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves"

"To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard"

"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future"

Carl Sandburg, Poet

"Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself"

Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher

"People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life"

Isadora Duncan, Dancer

"Live every day as if it is your last, and you'll be correct sooner than you otherwise would be"

Craig Bruce

"It was a place that is trying to destroy the individual by every means possible; trying to break his spirit, so that he accepts that he is No. 6 and will live there happily as No. 6 for ever after. And this is the one rebel that they can't break"

Patrick McGoohan, Actor

"Ethiopia didn't just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, 'Would you take my son with you?' He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die"

Bono, Musician

"I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

"He who is hated by all can not expect to live long"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

"Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system"

John Madden, Entertainer

"You never really meet a human being until you live with them or know them for awhile, so this is my clown and they understand that and so these interviews don't bother them"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"My neighborhood was rough, but I live a great life now. I don't fight that much now. I don't look for it anyway, but if someone hits your mother, whether you're a star, an accountant, or an astronaut or anything... I mean it's your mother, so I lost my mind"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"I don't have to live this lavish lifestyle"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"I used to be such a militant city-ist, but more and more I've seen forests and nature and oceans, and I don't know any more if this is the awesomest way to live"

Regina Spektor, Musician

"We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree"

Pablo Casals, Musician

"So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality"

Bono, Musician

"Live or die, but don't poison everything"

Anne Sexton, Poet

"Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities"

Robert Anton Wilson, Writer

"For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"While I've lived in L.A. since 1985, I'll always consider Chicago my home town and have much affection for it. My parents and sister still live there so I try to visit as often as I'm able"

Douglas Wood, Writer

"What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for"

Ray Bradbury, Writer

"Well, I mean, bread, I mean, I've got to have bread too to live"

Anthony Quinn, Actor

"I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams"

Miley Cyrus, Musician

"We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving"

Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher

"The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent"

Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Philosopher

"I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange"

Alexis Bledel, Actress

"Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved"

Isadora Duncan, Dancer

"Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper"

Billy Sunday, Clergyman

"The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it"

Edmond De Goncourt, Writer

"It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how"

Bobby Darin, Musician

"You who live your lives in cities or among peaceful ways cannot always tell whether your friends are the kind who would go through fire for you. But on the Plains one's friends have an opportunity to prove their mettle"

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there"

Anne McCaffrey, Author

"We live in a strange bubble"

Brian Molko, Musician

"People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly"

Andy Warhol, Artist

"I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor"

Laurence Sterne, Novelist

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