Live Quotes

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

~ Mohsin Hamid

I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around.

~ Eileen Myles

Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live.

~ Marcus Aurelius

They talk like angels but they live like men.

~ St. Jerome

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

~ Herman Melville

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.

~ George Dennison Prentice

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

~ Mortimer Adler

If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.

~ Leo Tolstoy

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

~ Pericles

My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.

~ St. Jerome

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

~ Edward Young

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

~ Max Lerner

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

~ Joyce Meyer

When you get frisked by the police at the age of 10, and they empty your schoolbag out in the street and kick your books around and calling you names because of where you live, you just get an anger towards everyone who is outside of your neighborhood.

~ Lukas Forchhammer

You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.

~ Ariel Dorfman

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

~ Jim Rohn

We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, and the important things will not change if we keep our priorities in proper order.

~ S. Truett Cathy

What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

~ Tupac Shakur

I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway.

~ Anne Frank

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.

~ John Lennon

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

~ Peter Marshall

A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.

~ Frank Gehry

I'm always going to live in Texas. Texas is my home - it'll be my home forever.

~ Kelly Clarkson

When you live far away, home looks a little different every time.

~ Gideon Raff

Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, because it is something you're going to live in. It must be comfortable and suit all your needs.

~ Edith Head

At home, we live on the beach, and it's like every day is a date.

~ Grant Show

My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive around festivals and have millions of children - children with dreadlocks and nose rings - and play the flute.

~ Rachel Weisz

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.

~ Alanis Morissette

I live in a sort of insular world. It's mostly my family, my house, staying home and working.

~ Mark Hamill

I live in Brooklyn, and I love all the hipsters and all the artisanal bacon you can get here now. I consider New York my home, and L.A. a place that I go. I always say I go with an empty sack and try to fill it with as much money as possible to bring back to New York.

~ Julie White

My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.

~ Gary Lineker

The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.

~ Gene Robinson

Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

~ Buddha

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

~ Pearl S. Buck

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

~ Terry Goodkind

It is said that man doesn't live by bread alone. Sometimes this is unfortunate, because people who cannot live by bread alone too often kill other people in consequence of the fights they get into.

~ John Mccarthy

Everyone thinks I live alone, but I don't. My characters all live with me.

~ Arundhati Roy

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

~ Charlotte Whitton