Live Quotes

"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life"

"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

"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

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

Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Love the life you live. Live the life you love"

Bob Marley, Musician

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

Bob Marley, Musician

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts"

Cicero, Philosopher

"What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes"

Cicero, Philosopher

"If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live"

Cicero, Philosopher

"Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things"

Epictetus, Philosopher

"It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"We make war that we may live in peace"

Aristotle, Philosopher

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

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

"Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

"You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

"Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever? Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all? This is a miracle; and that no more"

Edward Young, Poet

"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live"

Jean-Paul Sartre, Philosopher

"The environment should act as an aquarium which reflects the ideas, ethics, attitudes, and culture of the people who live in it"

Loris Malaguzzi, Teacher

"The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"Live your life, do your work, then take your hat"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Live the life you've dreamed"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Live constructively and live optimistically"

Alfred A. Montapert, Philosopher

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