Live Quotes

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

~ Frédéric Bastiat

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

~ Karl Marx

We live in a digital world where all is available at the touch of a screen. Money has been simplified, changed subtly over time from tangible bills to numbers in cyberspace. Cash is no longer in a cloth bag; it's numbers on a screen. Numbers that can be manipulated and modified. If you run out of numbers, you can just buy some more, right?

~ Rhys Darby

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

~ Jim Jarmusch

There's something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better.

~ Amy Poehler

One should live between extravagance and meanness. Don't save money by starving your mind. It is false economy never to take a holiday, or never to spend money for an evening's amusement or for a useful book.

~ Orison Swett Marden

And what is needed to prevent them from joining gangs was ample recreation for boys as well as girls, jobs and internships for training and money, and assistance to allow their families to live in decent homes.

~ Bobby Scott

The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.

~ Wendy Kopp

Read in order to live.

~ Gustave Flaubert

I think if education was celebrated in pop culture, we'd live in a better place.

~ Cote De Pablo

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

~ Robert Kennedy

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

~ Jean De La Fontaine

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

~ William Penn

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

~ H. Jackson Brown

If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.

~ Jane Smiley

It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.

~ Helmut Newton

Liberals want the government to get bigger, and they want you to drive smaller cars, and they want to dictate the way you live.

~ Rush Limbaugh

If you come down to it, there's only a handful of worlds that action films live in. You have your car chases, your gun fights, and your fights.

~ James Wan

First of all, I have to have trucks because I live most of my time on a horse farm, so I've gotta have trucks. It's in the northeast; I've got to have pickup trucks to move snow, number one. Number two, just if I'm driving, I don't have to have an SUV, but I want a big car.

~ Denis Leary

Everything I hated about L.A. I'm beginning to crave. L.A. is a place where you live behind a gate, you get in a car, your interaction with the public is minimal. I used to hate that.

~ Alec Baldwin

I think we have to act like stars because it is expected of us. So we drive our big cars and live in our smart houses.

~ Maurice Gibb

To attain inner peace you must actually give your life, not just your possessions. When you at last give your life - bringing into alignment your beliefs and the way you live then, and only then, can you begin to find inner peace.

~ Peace Pilgrim

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

~ Benjamin Franklin

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

~ Godfrey Reggio

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

~ Margaret Cavendish

The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

~ Elijah Parish Lovejoy

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

~ Jimmy Carter

Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.

~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.

~ Daniel Berrigan

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.

~ Peace Pilgrim

If a nation wants to live in peace with its neighbors, it doesn't keep rattling the saber at them.

~ Howard E. Koch

Peace in the world is everybody's business, no matter where you live or what you do.

~ Betty Williams

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

~ Agnetha Faltskog

We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.

~ Jean-Bertrand Aristide

The value of life is not in its duration, but in its donation. You are not important because of how long you live, you are important because of how effective you live.

~ Myles Munroe

The whole point is to live life and be - to use all the colors in the crayon box.

~ Rupaul

If you don't embrace who you are and accept who you are, you won't be able to live a happy life.

~ Ciara

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

~ Charles Lindbergh

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

~ Ann Landers

Each person must live their life as a model for others.

~ Rosa Parks