Live Quotes

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

~ Hermann Hesse

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

~ Dante Alighieri

So long as these kinds of inequalities persist, all of us who are given expensive educations have to live with the knowledge that our victories are contaminated because the game has been rigged to our advantage.

~ Jonathan Kozol

But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.

~ Thomas À Kempis

Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.

~ Julian Baggini

We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.

~ J. J. Abrams

I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.

~ Kate Mckinnon

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.

~ Sylvia Plath

Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are better off have always been addicted to peace and order because they live comparatively better and may be the losers in civil disturbances.

~ José Rizal

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

~ Joyce Meyer

When we started making 'Where You Live', I bought a bunch of Polaroid cameras in so that people could record the experience. Some of those pictures are in the CD sleeve.

~ Tracy Chapman

Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

~ Marilyn Monroe

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that you'll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.

~ Esperanza Spalding

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

~ Thomas Hobbes

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don't live angry, let go now!

~ Joel Osteen

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

~ Stephen King

I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.

~ Sean Combs

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

~ Dorothy Thompson

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

~ Thomas Jefferson

If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If they live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If they live with criticism, they learn to condemn.

~ Ron Finley

We live in a society obsessed with public opinion. But leadership has never been about popularity.

~ Marco Rubio

Never in a million years would I want to live at Versailles with Marie Antoinette or anybody else. I hate to tell you this but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream.

~ Kathryn Lasky

I did every diet: Atkins. Cabbage-soup diet. Dean Ornish. But I couldn't live the rest of my life like a rabbit.

~ Mike Huckabee

Most Americans live on a diet that includes processed fare that is neither fresh nor natural.

~ Homaro Cantu

In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee.

~ Lana Del Rey

The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.

~ Dan Buettner

I don't diet, I don't do fads, I've just decided to not eat carbs. So no more bread and pasta for the month. I can't live without chocolate, though. I've always got a bar in my handbag. It has to be 72%. Any less and it's too sweet, any more and it's inedible. Like I said, I'm very particular.

~ Nancy Meyers

Food does not rank high on my list. I eat to live, and I'm very particular about my diet. It's strictly low fat diet for me.

~ Terence Lewis

I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

~ A. J. Jacobs

Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.

~ Ike Skelton

My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.

~ Walter Matthau

When I was a medical student in the 1950s, we practically never spoke about Alzheimer's disease. And why is that so? And that is because people didn't live long enough to have Alzheimer's disease.

~ Eric Kandel

I did live through Katrina and also Hurricane Rita, which hit Lake Charles. Interestingly, when Katrina hit, they evacuated and Lake Charles was one of the evacuation destinations. We opened up the civic center of the city to the evacuees and provided them free medical and psychiatric care there.

~ Dale Archer

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

~ Roland Barthes

Live truth instead of professing it.

~ Elbert Hubbard

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Being tall has a major impact in general. It takes some courage to be as big as you are - to live up to it and not be intimidated by the graceful tiny people.

~ Sigourney Weaver

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

~ Barbara De Angelis

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

~ Thomas Carlyle