Live Quotes
Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
Socrates called beauty a short - Lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods.Francis Quarles
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.Charles Horton Cooley
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.Oscar Wilde
I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious!Steven Wright, Standup Comedy Routine
There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself.Roscoe Snowden
Take death for example. A great deal of our effort goes into avoiding it. We make extraordinary efforts to delay it, and often consider its intrusion a tragic event. Yet we? d find it hard to live without it. Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.Boutros Boutros - Ghali
None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.Kathleen Norris
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
Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 18 - 04
The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.Albert Einstein
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.Henry David Thoreau
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
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head - On and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.Gene Roddenberry
Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.Harry S Truman, August 8, 1950
We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.Mark Twain
It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.Horace Mann
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.Clarence Darrow
It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self - Consciousness; to make us more aware of what we are, and therefore of what the universe in which we live really is. And since mathematics, in its own way, also performs this function, it is not only aesthetically charming but profoundly significant. It is an art, and a great art.John W. N. Sullivan
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick - And - Jane books and the first word you learned - - The biggest word of all - - Look.Robert Fulghum
Lots of people are willing to die for the person they love, which is a pity, for it is a much grander thing to live for that person.Jason Hurst
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
Live free or die.New Hampshire State Motto
Live as brave men and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.Cicero
We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.David P Gardne
Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires I have lost friends, some by death others through sheer inability to cross the street.Virginia
Far better it 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 nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.Theodore Roosevelt
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.James Thurbe
It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.George Smith Patton, Jr.
All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.Samuel Butle
We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing.Charles Schaefe
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?Jane Austen
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.Aristotle, Politics
Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves.Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
When you learn how to die, you learn how to live.Morrie Schwartz, "Tuesdays with Morrie".
Fear grows out of the things we think it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.Barbara Garrison
