Live Quotes
Our lives teach us who we are.Salman Rushdie
We make war that we may live in peace.Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics
But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead? a dead parent, for example? can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.Jacques Derrida, Quoted in New York Times, January 23, 1994
When you are at Rome live in the Roman style when you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.Saint Ambrose
Being a hero is about the shortest - Lived profession on earth.Will Rogers
The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.Boutros Boutros - Ghali
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.Thomas Carlyle
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.Albert Schweitze
I think there is a choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice.Muriel Rukeyse
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.Jack London, The Call of the Wild
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you do not trust enough.Frank Crane
At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, I was always happy. Hopefully we will be able to say, I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.Barbara DeAngelis
Many brave men lived before Agamemnon but all are overwhelmed in eternal night, unwept, unknown, because they lack a sacred poet.Horace
A lively, disinterested, persistent looking for truth is extraordinarily rare. Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not to be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism or doubt.Henri Frdric Amiel
One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.John Ernst Steinbeck
Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consist of what happened, but of what men believe happened.Gerald W. Johnston
Profits are like breathing. You have to have them. But who would stay alive just to breathe.Maurice Mascaranhas
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.Sarah Ban Breathnach
When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone. As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them.Euripides
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.John Donne
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.Upham
Life is short; live it up.Khrushchev
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it.Henry Mille
I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake, 1997
Live dangerously and you live right.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (1806)
It is in his pleasure that a man really lives it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.Agnes Repplie
Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for good.Lyndon B. Johnson
To live so that you would not be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip, is to have lived well.Author Unknown
I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives.Benjamin Franklin
The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.Laurens Van der Post
My friends, your people have both intellect and heart; you use these to consider in what way you can do the best to live.Spotted Tail (Sioux Indian)
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - The great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.W. B. Yeats
While the fates permit, live happily life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned.Seneca
We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.Marilyn Manson
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.Soren Kierkegaard
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
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.Margaret Cho, weblog, 10 - 30 - 03
