Live Quotes

So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.

Author Unknown

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, however, if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Maya Angelou

Love is a flame that burns in heaven, And whose soft reflections radiate to us. Two worlds are opened, two lives given to it. It is by love tht we double our being It is by love that we approach God.

Aimee Martin

As I sit I see a dove And think of our deep, dear true love Think not about our future lives Except perhaps our growing size Keep all your thoughts alive, aglow, All will be well, no fear, I know

Unknown

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for good.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 18 - 04

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Horace

Believe in life Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader and fuller life.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Only a novel... in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

Still seems it strange, that thou shouldst live forever Is it less strange, that thou shouldst live at all This is a miracle and that no more.

Brigham Young

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Gilbert Highet

Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - A date which will live on in infamy - The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Address to Congress, Dec. 8, 1941

Work hard, live cheap, and save your money.

Edward C. Moroney, Jr.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Amy Lowell

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

Archibald MacLeish

Believe me The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I am long on ideas, but short on time. I only expect to live only about a hundred years.

Thomas Alva Edison

You only live once - - But if you work it right, once is enough.

Joe E. Lewis

Formula for success Underpromise and overdeliver.

Thomas Peters

We make war that we may live in peace.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

Heaven endures and the earth last a long time because they do not live for themselves.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

Edgar Watson Howe

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins commited in previous lives.

James Joyce

Every man dies. Not every man lives.

Tim Robbins

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thine own.

Smart

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.

Kahlil Gibran

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

No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Mae West

I still live.

Daniel Webster, last words, 24 October 1852.

By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation.

Fyodor Dostoevsky