Live Quotes
To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.Jorge Luis Borges
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.Albert Einstein
We can begin by noting that the body prefers to keep itself alive.John Tierney, Esquire, August 1981
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.Martin Luther King, Jr.
Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short - Lived achievement.Author Unknown
What, then is our duty It is to carefully distinguish the historic moment in which we live and to consciously assign our small energies to a specific battlefield. The more we are in phase with the current which leads the way, the more we aid man in his difficult, uncertain, danger - Fraught ascent toward salvation.Nikos Kazantzakis
The man who lives free from folly is not so wise as he thinks.La Rochefoucauld
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.Norman Cousins
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
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.David H. Lawrence
I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.Henry David Thoreau, "Resistance to Civil Government".
I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.Henry David Thoreau
A dreamer lives for eternity.Anonymous
I have felt it and lived it and now it leaves me here, love is the ultimate pain and joy, without it you die with it you perish.Christopher S. Drew
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I wish there could have been an invention that bottled up a memory, like perfume, and it never faded, never got stale. Then whenever I wanted to, I could uncork that bottle and live the memory all over again.Daphne DuMaurier, Rebecca
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same. The more things change the more I am the same. I am what I started with, and when it is all over I will be all that is left of me.Hugh Prathe
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men.Plato, The Republic
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
He had the entertainment of thinking that if he had for that moment stopped the clock it was to promote the next minute this still livelier motion.Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Eighth, Chapter 2
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.Conte Vittorio Alfieri
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishfull thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers chapter 4
Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.James Thurbe
The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well doing.Boerhaave
I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty... This is my highest and best use as a human.Ben Stein, E! Online, 12 - 20 - 03
One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all.Alcaeus
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.Annie Dillard
All say, How hard it is that we have to die - - A strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.Mark Twain
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.Alexis Carrel
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - - Either by themselves or by others.Unknown
In how many lives does love really play a dominant part The average taxpayer is no more capable of the grand passion than of a grand opera.Israel Zangwill
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?Irv Kupcinet
Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils.General John Stark
Self - Esteem is something you have to earn! The only way to achieve self - Esteem is to work hard. People have an obligation to live up to their potential.Bette Midle
Life is not a laughing matter, but can you imagine having to live without laughing.Leonid Sukhorukov
