Live Quotes

"To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living"

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it"

William Styron, Novelist

"You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility"

Stevie Nicks, Musician

"What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"We live in a country where people still get beaten to death because of their sexual orientation"

Peter Krause, Actor

"The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do maybe two dozen lines. Then they do that for three hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don't like waiting"

Lee Hazlewood, Musician

"I love to perform live"

Katey Sagal, Athlete

"To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them"

Hugh Prather

"When we want to reach a dream for the second time, you want it to come true, when you try so hard, you are so close to achieving it, it makes things very difficult to live with afterwards"

Guy Forget, Athlete

"They say I live a fast life. Maybe I just like a fast life. I wouldn't give it up for anything in the world. It won't last forever, either. But the memories will"

Dennis Wilson, Musician

"I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live"

Daniel Berrigan, Clergyman

"Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger"

Timothy Radcliffe, Clergyman

"I think seeing Pryor's first movie, Live In Concert, when I was in high school changed my life. Pryor really put the heart in darkness for me"

Marc Maron, Entertainer

"We need real leadership, Democrat, Republican and independent to stand up and say, we have to live within our means"

Tom Coburn, Politician

"If you live long enough, you'll experience everything"

Robert Torricelli

"To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work"

Krzysztof Kieslowski, Director

"How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear"

Shirin Ebadi, Lawyer

"Anything can happen to anyone at any time and you shouldn't just live through the days, or you lose them. You should do what you can to enjoy every moment"

Sarah Brightman, Musician

"I've been in this business for a long time at my age, I've just turned 30, and I feel like my wife's career is going incredibly well, my kids are happy and healthy in schools, we've both been able to buy a house for our parents, respectively, in the places they live"

Ryan Phillippe, Actor

"I've never fancied that footballer lifestyle. I suppose I could live that kind of flash life. People stereotype child actors and kind of expect you to go off the rails a bit, be a bit crazy, but that's not really happened yet. I've got a big family so that helps, and they live really close to the studios so it's just so much easier"

Rupert Grint, Actor

"My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it"

Jacques Delors, Economist

"For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all"

Lactantius, Author

"I'm in a little bit of a different situation, because working in the business that I do and living in the city that I live in, I haven't had a problem with people who are gay. Since I was 10 I've been working alongside them, and some of my best friends are gay"

Jason Bateman, Actor

"When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others"

Peace Pilgrim, Activist

"Each day I live in a glass room unless I break it with the thrusting of my senses and pass through the splintered walls to the great landscape"

Mervyn Peake, Writer

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art"

Charlie Parker, Musician

"We want you to visit our State of Excitement often. Come again and again. But for heaven's sake, don't move here to live. Or if you do have to move in to live, don't tell any of your neighbors where you are going"

Tom McCall, Politician

"It appears I am destined for something; I will live"

Robert Clive, Musician

"There are things that I would say that you could call an instant of time; or better, a now. As we live we seem to move through a succession of instants of time, nows, and the question is, what are they? There are where everything in the universe is at this moment, now"

Julian Barbour, Scientist

"I wouldn't say Malkovich is totally insane, but he's not living in the real world. He's living in his world, which is a fine world to live in apparently"

Martha Plimpton, Actress

"In life there are no problems, that is, objective and external choices; there is only the life which we do not resolve as a problem but which we live as an experience, whatever the final result may be"

Alberto Moravia, Novelist

"Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees"

Dolores Ibarruri, Politician

"The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable"

Storm Jameson, Writer

"The U.N. can be very frustrating and at times impotent, but it can also be a valuable forum for discussion and resolution of world problems. We should not walk away from it just because it's failed to live up to its promise"

Robert Foster Bennett, Politician

"You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you"

Haruki Murakami, Writer

"Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship"

Greg Louganis, Athlete

"Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that"

Doris Roberts, Actress

"Pursuing employment or climatic relief, we live in voluntary exile from our extended families and our longer past, but in an involuntary exile from ourselves and our own past"

John Thorn, Historian

"I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad"

John Pomfret

"I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore"

Jeremy Renner, Actor

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