Live Quotes

"Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young"

A. E. Housman, Poet

"I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave"

Joseph Campbell, Author

"At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily"

Flannery O'Connor, Author

"More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Third World"

Fidel Castro, Statesman

"I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened"

Fidel Castro, Statesman

"I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together"

Keith Richards, Musician

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you"

A. A. Milne, Author

"Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape; that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love"

Eminem, Musician

"You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be"

Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

"Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality"

Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

"We live in a very complex world"

Vinton Cerf, Inventor

"Not only do I have to live, right, I have to get some cash for my troubles - it's a scary thing, and people need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn't live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death"

Morgan Freeman, Actor

"A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget"

Horst Koehler, Statesman

"Into this, for good or ill, is woven every belief of every man who has speech of his fellows. A awful privilege, and an awful responsibility, that we should help to create the world in which posterity will live"

William Kingdon Clifford, Mathematician

"Collectively, we are in thrall to media - because they deliver to us many of the psychic goods we crave, and we know no other way to live"

Todd Gitlin, Sociologist

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success"

Swami Vivekananda, Clergyman

"Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth"

Swami Vivekananda, Clergyman

"If you had your life to live over again, do it overseas"

Henny Youngman, Comedian

"A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months"

Henny Youngman, Comedian

"The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live"

Flannery O'Connor, Author

"Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies"

Ann Landers, Journalist

"I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you"

Andy Rooney, Journalist

"You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"If I have to change my lifestyle, I don't want to live"

Robert Mapplethorpe, Photographer

"The greatest public health threat for many American women is the men they live with"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone"

Orson Welles, Actor

"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age"

Lucille Ball, Comedian

"I do miss Saturday Night Live, that's for sure. There's nothing like it. I just hosted, and I felt I'd only been away for a week"

Mike Myers, Comedian

"They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage"

Jim Capaldi, Musician

"We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people"

Morrie Schwartz, Educator

"The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live"

Morrie Schwartz, Educator