Live Quotes
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
The neurotic and the artist - Since both live out the unconscious of the race - Reveal to us what is going to emerge endemically in the society later on.Rollo May
How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.Ovid
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.
What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it.Henry Mille
Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.Albert Camus
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each othe.Roger Banniste
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.Maya Angelou
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
Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.Homer, The Iliad
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.Socrates, from Plutarch, How a Young Man Ought to Hear Poems
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.Socrates, in Plato, Dialogues, Apology
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.Charles Farrar Browne
It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.Thomas Jefferson
He will live ill who does not know how to die well.Seneca
When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03 - 25 - 05
I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.Samuel Johnson
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.Samuel Johnson
The key to immortality is first to live a life worth remembering.Bruce Lee, Film: (Dragon The Bruce Lee Story. Quotation posted at end of film just before credits)
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do.Friedrich Nietzsche
Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to - Day his own He who, secure within, can say, To - Morrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.John Dryden
You despise books you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.Voltaire
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.Robert Louis Stevenson
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.Ashley Montagu
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.Israel Zangwill
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
Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?Irv Kupcinet
Live free or die.New Hampshire State Motto
Believe me The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Death hangs over thee, While thou still live, while thou may, do good.Marcus Aelius Aurelius
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.Rachel Carson
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.Margaret Young
I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.Abraham Lincoln
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.Samuel Butle
Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past.Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
He that lives in a glass house must not throw stones.English Prove
