Live Quotes
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.Charles Caleb Colton
To believe in something to yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives it is the only way we can leave the future open.Lillian Smith
States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.George W. Bush, Gov. of Texas, state leading in executions
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., quoted by Human Behavior, May 1978
You only live once, but if you live right, once is enough.Unknown
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.Anatole France
The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks.La Rochefoucauld
May you live all the days of your life.Jonathan Swift
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. You are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.Ashley Smith
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy - Invincible determination - - A purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton
Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.John Adams
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.R. D. Laing
Live truth instead of professing it.Elbert Hubbard
Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams
Our The Stoic motto, as you know, is live according to nature.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Become the change you want to see - Those are words I live by.Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine
I believe that God has planted in every human heart the desire to live in freedom. And even when that desire is crushed by tyranny for decades, it will rise again.George W. Bush, State of the Union address, January 20, 2004
If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.Jacques Martin Barzun
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.Dwight D. Eisenhowe
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
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.Socrates, In "Apology, " sct. 21, by Plato.
A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - A place where history comes to life.Norman Cousins
The unfit die - - The fit both live and thrive. Alas, who say so They who do survive.Sarah N. Cleghorn
Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.Home
I have lived some thirty years on this planet and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.Henry David Thoreau
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
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
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.Voltaire
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.Horace Mann
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.Henry David Thoreau
To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.Henry Miller, The Henry Miller Reader (1959), "Reunion in Brooklyn".
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.Oscar Wilde
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.Thomas Jefferson
Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.Mark A. Clement
You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
Me, we. Supposedly the shortest quote in the English language delivered at a Harvard graduation.Muhammad Ali
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.Martin Luther King, Jr.
