Live Quotes

Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror. referring to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

George Walker Bush

Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

Henry David Thoreau

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Groucho Marx

We can spend our whole lives underachieving.

Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality

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

Publilius Syrus

Indeed, we do not really live unless we have friends surrounding us like a firm wall against the winds of the world.

Charles Hanson Towne

I decided long ago never to walk in anyone? s shadow. If I fail, if I succeed, at least I? ll live as I believe.

Whitney Houston, The Greatest Love Of All

When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it? s magical.

Pamela Ribon, Why Girls Are Weird, 2003

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

Emiliano Zapata

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

Benjamin Franklin

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

Kathleen Norris

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you cannot bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel all you are beyond the pain.

Bartholomew

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Georges Bernanos, "Why Freedom? " The Last Essays of Georges Bernanos, 1955

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

Hermann Hesse

Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

Dietrich Bonhoeffe

There are so many different ways lives work out, so many stories, and every one of them is precious: full of joy and heartbreak, and a fair amount of situation comedy.

Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004

Are you bored with life Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

There are two things I know about life... Only the good die young but the real jerks will live forever.

Lewis Black, "Black on Broadway" (2004)

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Malcolm S. Forbes

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Publilius Syrus

Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

Alice Thomas Ellis

Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe.

Maurice Mascaranhas

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.

Martin Luther King Jr.

To laugh is to live profoundly.

Milan Kundera, The Book Of Laughter and Forgetting

It is in the knowledge of the genuine conditions of our lives that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons for living.

Simone de Beauvoi

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

Gertrude Stein

In order to be able to live in America I must be unafraid to live anywhere in it, and I must be able to live in the fashion and with whom I choose.

Alice Walke

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

David Russell

Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

Frederick Bastiat, "Government" published in 1848

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Leo Tolstoy

You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Ruth Smeltze

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

H. L. Mencken

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

One of the things that has helped me as much as any other, is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

George Washington Carve

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.

Rita Rudne

All say, How hard it is that we have to die - - A strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

Mark Twain