Live Quotes

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

Edward Dahlberg

I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living for words are infinitely less important than acts.

A. S. Neill

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive.

Irv Kupcinet

In essence, science is a perpetual search for an intelligent and integrated comprehension of the world we live in.

Cornelius Bernardus Van Neil

Fine art and pizza delivery, what we do falls neatly in between!

David Letterman

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

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.

Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer", 1951

God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives - - DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

Dr. Dale E. Turne

Cross - Country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

Steven Wright

Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Unknown

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

Henry David Thoreau

If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.

I. F. Stone

The longer one lives, the more one realizes that nothing is a dish for every day.

Norman Douglas

How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.

Ovid

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

W. Somerset Maugham

The evil men do lives after them, the good is often interred with their bones.

William Shakspeare, Julius Cease

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

James Baldwin

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

Margaret Fulle

Live..... Laugh..... GOLF.

Kathryn Schaefer Plaum

I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth.

William Frank Buckley, Jr.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Thomas Jefferson, 1801

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Harrison Ford

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.

William Shakespeare

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - But it is terrible when one has to live it.

Jean Anouilh

Would you live with ease, do what you ought, and not what you please.

Benjamin Franklin

We never know how far reaching something we may think, say, or do today will effect the lives of millions tomorrow.

Dr. B. J. Palme

Live together like brothers and do business like strangers.

Arab Prove

We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.

Madame Chiang

I have you and even if we never meet or ever see each other, we have left our thumbprints in the thick, moist clay of each others lives.

Hugh Elliott

Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Leoardo da Vinci

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Leo Tolstoy

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

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.

John Oliver Hobbes

Live to learn... forget... and learn again.

Brian