Live Quotes

Life is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Vivir para contarla (Living to tell the tale)

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

W. H. Auden

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.

Dwight D. Eisenhowe

I was born an American I will live an American I shall die an American.

Daniel Webste

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

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 18 - 04

It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.

Earl Warren

Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

Man can live far from God - - Not outside God. God is wherever we are. Even in suffering? Even in suffering.

Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.

Henry David Thoreau

You must be still in the midst of activity, and be vibrantly alive in repose.

Indira Gandhi

With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die.

Horace, Odes

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

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

W. E. B. Du Bois

He will live ill who does not know how to die well.

Seneca

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live.

Peter Cochrane

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

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

William James

Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.

J. Todd

I muse with the greatest affection on every flower I have known from my infancy - Their shapes and colours are as new to me as if I had just created them with a superhuman fancy - It is because they are connected with the most thoughtless and happiest moments of our lives.

John Keats, Letter to James Rice, Feb 1820

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

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

Edward Weeks

Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - - Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Robert

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Charles de Montesquieu

What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress Imagine that you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.

Thomas Crum

Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - - The things we live by and teach our children - - Are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.

Walt Disney

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Henry Drummond

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this.

Henry David Thoreau

Death is more universal than life everyone dies but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berline.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

Marquis de Vauvenargues

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Traditional Indian Saying

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".

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears.

John Ruskin

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.

Andrew Schneide

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

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Martin Luther King Jr., Speech at St. Louis, March 22, 1964