Live Quotes

"Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!"

Steven Wright, Comedian

"I gambled on having the strength to live two lives, one for myself and one for the world"

Ruth Benedict, Scientist

"To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death"

Jacqueline Cochran, Aviator

"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"To live without Hope is to Cease to live"

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Novelist

"Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"To live happily is an inward power of the soul"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"I live and die with the Chicago Cubs"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!"

Og Mandino, Author

"Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old"

Jonathan Swift, Writer

"Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live"

Socrates, Philosopher

"If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government"

George Will, Journalist

"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military"

William S. Burroughs, Writer

"A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born"

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Novelist

"We belong to the camp of peace. We believe in peace. We believe that our one God wishes us to live in peace and wishes peace upon us, for these are His teachings to all the followers of the three great monotheistic religions, the Children of Abraham"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations"

Christine Gregoire, Politician

"In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems"

Shelley Winters, Actress

"The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell"

Orson Scott Card, Writer

"The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive"

Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress

"German is more familiar now since I live part of the year in Rome and part in the German part of Switzerland. But it's not difficult to sing in German; it's difficult to feel in German. This takes time. It's a culture"

Cecilia Bartoli, Musician

"I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with"

Denis Leary, Actor

"I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that"

James Dickey, Novelist

"The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in"

A. E. Housman, Poet

"One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know"

Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Photographer

"Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means"

Edward G. Rendell, Politician

"We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic"

David Russell, Musician

"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company"

Charles Evans Hughes, Judge

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to a job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it"

Ellen Goodman, Journalist

"No one longs to live more than someone growing old"

Sophocles, Author

"One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die"

Bob Marley, Musician

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