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Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.

~ Michelangelo

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

~ Baltasar Gracián

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end, locked in your head, alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

~ Tony Parsons

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

~ Florida Scott-Maxwell

Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.

~ John Hannah

Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.

~ Evo Morales

We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. It's just not in usable form yet.

~ Peter Diamandis

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.

~ Paul Hawken

Truly, we do live on a 'water planet.' For us, water is that critical issue that we need. It's the most precious substance on the planet, and it links us to pretty much every environmental issue, including climate change, that we're facing.

~ Philippe Cousteau

It is all very well for 2% of the population to live in a monastic state of meatlessness while everyone else gorges their way towards environmental meltdown or the nearest heart clinic. Vegetarianism is good for the willing minority, but not much use as a campaign tool.

~ Tristram Stuart

I find it interesting that many of the people who want to restrict fossil fuels live in well-developed countries where abundant and affordable energy is readily available.

~ Lee R. Raymond

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

~ Neil Labute

We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.

~ Marilyn Manson

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.

~ Erma Bombeck

As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.

~ Sam Harris

Islam cannot have a significant presence in Australia if we are to live in an open, secular, and cohesive society. We have seen the destruction it is causing around the world.

~ Pauline Hanson

We live in a disposable society. We throw so much away. But it doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from the planet and it comes from future generations' lives.

~ Julia Butterfly Hill

Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.

~ Alan Greenspan

I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad.

~ John Pomfret

We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to mouth, juggling short-term funding and perpetual minor crises. Even the bigger ones rarely get much time to stand back and look at the bigger picture. Many are on a treadmill chasing after contracts and new funding.

~ Geoff Mulgan

We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.

~ Mike Peters

As a creative person, you just put something out into the consciousness of the society you live in.

~ Annie Lennox

If capitalism is to remain a healthy, vibrant economic system, corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live.

~ Simon Mainwaring

We live in a multi-cultural society far more open to international ideas. If you'd told me 20 years ago I'd drive through Bury and see someone sitting outside a cafe drinking a latte, I'd have laughed. In fact, I wouldn't have even known what a latte was.

~ Gary Neville

I feel that I'll be buried in Ireland and don't think I'll ever live in the U.S. I'm not comfortable with many aspects of U.S. society - especially the justice system.

~ John Connolly

We will have to accept a certain degree of legal immigration; that's globalisation... In the era of the smartphone, we cannot shut ourselves away... people know full well how we live in Europe.

~ Angela Merkel

We should all have the legal right to purchase health insurance from any insurance company in any state, and we should be able use that insurance wherever we live. Health insurance should be portable.

~ John Mackey

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.

~ Anthony Weiner

To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.

~ James Mcgreevey

I made my own assessment of my life, and I began to live it. That was freedom.

~ Fernando Flores

I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.

~ Malala Yousafzai

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.

~ Epictetus

In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.

~ Vince Mcmahon

The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

I grew up watching my dad scout games live. They played on Saturday. Sometimes they wouldn't get the films until Monday. Sunday air shipping from wherever the college team was located - Starkville, Mississippi, or wherever the film was coming from. It took two days.

~ Bill Belichick

It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

~ Christine Gregoire

I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

~ Narendra Modi