Live Quotes
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.Emiliano Zapata
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?Irv Kupcinet
He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.Homer, The Iliad
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.Martin Luther King Jr.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.James Branch Cabell, The Silver Stallion, 1926
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.Buddha
I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.Henry Truman
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.Logan Pearsall Smith
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved... the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.Jack Kerouac, "On the Road".
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars.Gerald R. Ford
If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.Emily Dickinson
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 live in an age when to be young and indifferent can no longer be synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.Benjamin Disraeli
If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.Dorothy Law Nolte
Houses are built to live in, not to look on therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.Francis Bacon
Jesus was a bachelor and never lived with a woman. Surely living with a woman is one of the most difficult things a man has to do, and he never did it.James Joyce
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.Brian Tracy
A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.Miguel de Unamuno
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.Rita Mae Brown
Mistakes live in the neighbourhood of truth and therefore delude us.Henry C. Blinn
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.Norman Cousins
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".
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
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.T. S. Eliot, Quoted in the May, 24 edition of "The Montreal Gazette".
God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute.Edwin Holt Hughes
It was always said of him Scrooge that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us.Charles Dickens
A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre - Flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift - Off?Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, All is Vanity, 1991
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with... the earth and the wonders thereof - The sea - The sun.Katherine Mansfield
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
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers - On, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.Henry Ward Beeche
If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.Robert Francis Kennedy
He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief.Thomas Fulle
The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - Of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.Robert F. Kennedy
We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.David P Gardne
For long you live and high you fly, For smiles you give and tears you cry, For all you touch and all you see Is all your life will ever be.Pink Floyd
To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.Ralph Waldo Emerson
