Live Quotes

"Yes, I'm a patriotic person. For these people who disgrace the American way and burn our flag and do all of these things... I say, don't live here and disgrace my country. Go live in the Middle East and see how you like it"

Payne Stewart, Athlete

"I do it because I can't seem to live with myself if I do not. I don't know any other way to be. It isn't something you can explain; it is just something that you do; it is something that you are"

Martin Sheen, Actor

"One half of the world's people live on less than two dollars a day. This should concern our national security policy as well as our conscience"

Lee H. Hamilton, Politician

"Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible"

Isaiah Berlin, Philosopher

"It is by acts and not by ideas that people live"

Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman

"Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive"

Matt Cameron, Musician

"I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it"

Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman

"The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live"

Bob Riley, Politician

"There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live"

John Adams, President

"We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives"

Fred Melamed, Actor

"You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough"

Joe E. Lewis, Comedian

"People try to live within their income so they can afford to pay taxes to a government that can't live within its income"

Robert Half, Businessman

"Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals "love" them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more"

Edwin Way Teale

"Know how to live the time that is given you"

Dario Fo, Playwright

"A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes"

Phil Crosby, Author

"From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It's not a miracle; we just decided to go"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff"

Al Jarreau, Musician

"Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments"

Alan Jackson, Musician

"Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones"

Pericles, Statesman

"We live in a democracy. We have this extraordinary opportunity to use our mind and say what we think, speak as we think. Sometimes what we say is objectionable to other people. But that is part of a free society"

Hal Holbrook, Actor

"The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race"

Taylor Caldwell, Author

"Your high points and your low points. High points don't last that long, it's a high and it happens. It's great at the moment but you really can't live on it"

Ric Ocasek, Musician

"Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation"

Vita Sackville-West, Novelist

"We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence"

Remy de Gourmont, Novelist

"No, I'm a theatrical, live performer or a movie performer"

Liza Minnelli, Actress

"It's really a question of fairness and what kind of country we're going to live in. There are 22,000 people making over $1 million. They're paying an effective tax rate in the teens. As Warren Buffett said, he pays less in taxes effectively than his secretary does. That's not right"

David Plouffe, Public Servant

"Life! Can't live with it, can't live without it"

Cynthia Nelms, Author

"I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live way up on a hill, way, way back in the country"

Robert Duvall, Actor

"I have so much respect for people in the theater. You can't do 10 or 15 takes. It's all live. It's like life in motion"

Puff Daddy, Musician

"Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some"

Robert Fulghum, Author

"On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath"

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist

"Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

"We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard"

Mahmoud Abbas, Statesman

"I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely"

Mary Pickford, Actress

"There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live while at the same time protect the plants and animals around them"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"I would not want to live in a country that would have me as a leader in any sort of political bent"

Tom Hanks, Actor

"Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up"

Olivia Wilde, Actress

"I'm not going to live my life unhappy and why should he and we talk about it and I think what's great about the film is that it shows is the meaning of family doesn't have to be as traditional as it once was, like you can make a family"

Nia Long, Actress

"As I walk around, I have met 70-year-old women who live on the Upper West Side who love the show. And I met a couple in Kansas - a couple of truck drivers who drove around together - who loved it. It's popular all over the place and definitely in the gay community"

Lee Tergesen, Actor

"Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die"

Johnny Carson, Comedian

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