Live Quotes

"A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not"

Dalton Trumbo, Novelist

"From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life"

Dirk Benedict, Actor

"I can't believe we're being paid to live in New York"

Blake Lively, Actress

"Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music"

Brian Eno, Musician

"I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind"

Brian Eno, Musician

"Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television"

Eartha Kitt, Actress

"This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment"

Eartha Kitt, Actress

"It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably"

Carl Levin, Politician

"No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis"

Brad Henry, Politician

"I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim"

Dawn French, Comedian

"But cord blood also holds the great potential of producing pleural potential cells that could cure many other diseases such as juvenile diabetes, a disease that I live with every day"

Dan Lipinski, Politician

"My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

"In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington"

Fred Thompson, Politician

"But at the same time you can't assume that making a difference 20 years ago is going to allow you to sort of live on the laurels of those victories for the rest of your life"

Angela Davis, Activist

"All musicians start out with ideals but hanging on to them in the face of media scrutiny takes real integrity. Tougher still is to live up to the ideals of your dedicated fans"

Billy Bragg, Musician

"The age in which we live can only be characterized as one of barbarism. Our civilization is in the process not only of being militarized, but also being brutalized"

Alva Myrdal, Diplomat

"We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?"

David Brin, Author

"The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with"

Alija Izetbegovic, Activist

"I would like to learn, or remember, how to live"

Annie Dillard, Author

"Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live"

Alexander Herzen, Journalist

"I wrote a novel about Israelis who live their own lives on the slope of a volcano. Near a volcano one still falls in love, one still gets jealous, one still wants a promotion, one still gossips"

Amos Oz, Writer

"You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter"

Charles Spurgeon, Clergyman

"If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man"

James Dean, Actor

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today"

James Dean, Actor

"I want to live my life, not record it"

Jackie Kennedy, First Lady

"May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine"

Frank Sinatra, Musician

"I'm gonna live till I die"

Frank Sinatra, Musician

"A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know"

Dwight L. Moody, Clergyman

"I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain"

Cathy Guisewite, Cartoonist

"Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense"

Ron Paul, Politician

"Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war"

Tony Blair, Statesman

"I have a lot of money stashed away, but I do live my life from day to day"

Elton John, Musician

"If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live"

Ron Paul, Politician

"So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique"

Josiah Royce, Philosopher

"Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying"

Johannes Tauler, Theologian

"To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no longer"

Gaston Bachelard, Philosopher

"If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat"

Simone de Beauvoir, Writer

"To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self"

Charles Horton Cooley, Sociologist

"Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten"

Lewis Mumford, Sociologist

"You don't live on the Earth you want, you live on the Earth you have"

Jeff Rich, Explorer

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