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“Different persons are edified and moved by different examples : thus a religious is wont to know better, and to study more, the lives of the Saints of his Order; and they that live in the world and strive to serve God, feel more devotion to those Saints whose example seems better adapted to themselves.”
Peter Joseph Arnoudt (1811–1865) first seen 1865 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Imitation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (1865)
“She told her slaves with tidy hair, "Now listen to me, girls! The gods who live on Mount Olympus must have wished this man to come into contact with my godlike people. Before, he looked so poor and unrefined; now he is like a god that lives in heaven.”
Emily Wilson (classicist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A symptom of our national disease, not the actual problem. We can’t force or ask those who have the chance to live fuller lives elsewhere to remain in a failed system, in the name of patriotism. The brains are draining towards systems that value and nurture their dreams.”
Dare Segun Falowo wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’ve always wanted to be an actress. It’s such an amazing opportunity that through creating a character, I am able to live other people’s lives, happiness, pain, and experiences.”
Amina Khalil (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I urge young Rwandans to live for others, ready to sacrifice and driven to positively impact the lives of all Rwandans, including themselves and their families. They should always ask: How does what I'm doing transform this country for the better?”
Charles Murigande (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In Africa, there is an adage that says; ‘It takes a Village to raise a child’. It is true in the sense that a girl does not live in a vacuum. TaLI was also created to inspire girls to change their lives through confidence building, Inspiration and Exposure as well as educating them on their Reproductive Health rights with special interest on the effects and prevention of HIV and AIDS.”
Nyaradzo Mashayamombe (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want my creativity to outlive me. It’s not just the lives we live that matter, but the gifts we leave for future generations.”
Rachid Koraïchi (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have five children, when Kartel first asked me four, and I have my mother in Flankers. I have a big family to support and they are a security. I was not ready to move at first. Now he lives in Kingston and the children come and visit during the weekends when they don't have school or he goes to them. Otherwise they live with their mothers or with his mother”
Tommy Lee Sparta (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you think about ourselves as human beings, we see ourselves as finite. We die but I feel our spirit lives on. You live and grieve beyond the canvas.”
Beatrice Wanjiku (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Many African-Americans who came here found that we share stories, we find inspiration in each others’ stories. So these are stories of people trying to make ends meet, fighting racism, wanting to live normal lives despite the odds that are against them, reclaiming their space in the world and working to regain the lost dignities.”
Sabata-Mpho Mokae wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do talk with the people I go on Live regularly with. They’re my friends. We have each other's numbers. We talk through DMs on Instagram, but we never talk about the Lives and say what we're gonna do. It just happens on the spot.”
Psyiconic (born 1995) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts not breaths; // In feelings, not in figures on a dial. // We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives // Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.”
Aristotle (misattributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Once a thing's been done it's been done, so while this nostalgia — I mean for the '60s and '70s, you know, looking backwards for inspiration, copying the past — how's that rock 'n' roll? Do something of your own. Start something new, you know? Live your lives now. Know what I mean?”
John Lennon (disputed) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: BBC interview, used in a Citroën ad, as quoted in "John Lennon Appearance In Car Ad Stirs Controversy" by Monica Herrera in Billboard (4 March 2010). Though there has been no official dispute that he made this statement…
“I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him. Be honest, but hate no one; overturn a man's wrongdoing, but do not overturn him unless it must be done in overturning the wrong. Stand with a man while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.”
Abraham Lincoln (misattributed) first seen 1854 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The last sentence is from the 16 October 1854 Peoria speech, slightly paraphrased. No known contemporary source for the rest. It first appears, attributed to Lincoln, in US religious/inspirational journals in 1907-8, su…
“Tradition is not, as post-modernists maintain, a library or museum the artist plunders. It is the endless conversation between the living and the dead. Young artists enter into this conversation passionately — not merely intellectually, though study and analysis play a part. They live and breathe it. Tradition is not a public building. It is a love affair.”
Dana Gioia (born 1950) first seen 1995 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Paradigms Lost," interview with Gloria Brame, ELF: Eclectic Literary Forum (Spring 1995)
“We all went to university here and spent the last 10 years living here, and we are among people who live here, who come to the show.”
Paul Smith (musician) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each it is the performance of a dedicated set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes the shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes in some areas an athlete of God.”
Martha Graham (1894–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of course the tendency had been to say, 'Let's adopt the multicultural concept and live happily side by side, and be happy to be living with each other.' But this concept has failed, and failed utterly.”
Angela Merkel (born 1954) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Angela Merkel: German Chancellor says multiculturalism is a sham by Rick Noack, 14 December 2015, ; and in Angela Merkel: Multiculturalism Is A Lie, According To 'Time Magazine's' 'Person Of The Year (Decem…
“I come to Thee, O Christ. Faint and perishing, defenceless and needy, with many a sin and many a fear, to Thee I turn, for Thou hast died for me, and for me Thou dost live. Be Thou my shelter and strong tower. Give me to drink of living water. Let me rest in Thee while in this weary land; and let Thy sweet love, my Brother and my Lord, be mine all on earth and the heaven of my heaven.”
Alexander Maclaren (1826–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I must live little by little, it's no good living everything at once. (p27)”
Clarice Lispector (1920–1977) said by 1977 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whether people in Pakistan understand fashion or not, it is a true everyday-living history of our times. People judge you by the clothes and shoes that you wear; they are not bothered whether you live in Clifton, Nazimabad, Gulshan or FATA or anywhere. Everything is perceived by what you are wearing.”
Deepak Perwani (born 1973) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: , December 25, 2008.
“Science can... transfer energy... into living bodies, so that... two may live where before one would have struggled miserably for an existence. A simple people, who confused power with deity, like the ancient Greeks or primitive Vikings, would have seen, in this control... the act of a god, and from their... view... the most god-like achievement man has ever accomplished.”
Frederick Soddy (1877–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does.”
William Mountford (1816–1885) said by 1885 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the end, people have to learn to live together. That is what I didn't like about America — it is so homogeneous. I like places where there are people who are different culturally, physically, in every way. And I like to see how they succeed in living together.”
Terry Gilliam (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When we speak of the Rumanian nation, we refer not only to the Rumanians currently living on the same territory, with the same past and same future, the same habits, the same language, the same interests. When we speak of the Rumanian nation we refer to all Rumanians, dead or alive, who have lived on this land of ours from the beginnings of history and will live on it also in the future.”
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My mother [Eva] told me he used to go behind enemy lines, rub shoulders with the enemy forces and never get caught. … He was always saying how we have to live in harmony with all living things in this world.—Duncan Pegahmagabow (son).”
Francis Pegahmagabow (1891–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows that from the forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it. What is said in it constitutes the common world in which we live. … The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it — what is said.”
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Man and Language (1966)
“There’s no point living if you can’t, at least occasionally, live.”
Robert Charles Wilson (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We live in an enlightened age, however, an age that has learned to see and to value other living things as they are, not as we wish them to be. And the long and creditable history of science has taught us, if nothing else, to look carefully before we judge—to judge, if we must, based on what we see, not what we would prefer to believe.”
Robert Charles Wilson (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“More inspiring and interesting teaching alone can make progress in education possible: for such teaching alone has power to produce greater self-activity, greater concentration of mind, greater desire to learn not only how to get a living, but how to live.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living.”
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) said by 1980 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are always getting ready to live, but never living.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) first seen 1834 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: April 12, 1834
“In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time.”
Albert Camus (1913–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When the woman showed her love for the children that were not her own, and wept over them, I saw in her the living God, and understood What men live by.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) said by 1910 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Good, to forgive; Best, to forget! Living, we fret; Dying, we live.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) said by 1889 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O blessed letters that combine in one All ages past, and make one live with all, By you we do confer with who are gone, And the dead living unto counsel call: By you th'unborn shall have communion Of what we feel, and what doth us befall.”
Samuel Daniel (1562–1619) said by 1619 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whatever America has to show in heroic living to-day, I doubt if she can show any thing finer than the quality of the resolve, the steadfast effort hundreds of black and coloured men are making to-day to live blamelessly, honourably, and patiently, getting for themselves what scraps of refinement, learning, and beauty they may, keeping their hold on a civilization they are grudged and denied.”
H. G. Wells (1866–1946) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Future in America (1906)
“The Pope talks so much shit. The Pope was castigating the media for making gays look normal. YEAH, you're a real GOOD judge of normal, with your gold dress and your matching gold hat, living it up in the Vatican with 500 men surrounded by the finest antiques in the world! Queen, please! You live like Versace did!”
Margaret Cho (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The living have never shown me how to live.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.”
Emil Cioran (1911–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No eye saw him, while with loving pride Each voice with each in praise of Jubal vied. Must he in conscious trance, dumb, helpless lie While all that ardent kindred passed him by? His flesh cried out to live with living men, And join that soul which to the inward ken Of all the hymning train was present there.”
George Eliot (1819–1880) said by 1880 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So, when the last and dreadful Hour This crumbling Pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And musick shall untune the Sky.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) said by 1700 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) first seen 1932 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in A Woman's Journal : A Blank Book with Quotes by Women (2002) by Running Press Staff, p. 1932
“A slave is one who must produce wealth for another," the Brain said. "There is only one true wealth in all the universe. I have given you some of it. I have given your father and your mate some of it. And your friends. This wealth is living time. Time. Are we slaves because we have given you more time to live?”
Frank Herbert (1920–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Basically It's a hypocritical view, because what your saying is it's okay for us to live in the dirt, in the gutter, in less than human conditions, but it's not okay for us to tell people that we are living in these conditions.”
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Old and sick, more than one hundred years Face haggard, hair white, I'm happy to still live in the mountains A cloth covered phantom watching the years flow by Why envy people with clever ways of living?”
Hanshan (born 800) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be cut off from the land of the living, and yet not to be dead. How could I bear that? That's how most men live, and don't even know it.”
Orson Scott Card (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Someone trying to live well would seem eccentrically abstemious in most of the US. That phenomenon is only going to become more pronounced. You can probably take it as a rule of thumb from now on that if people don't think you're weird, you're living badly.”
Paul Graham (born 1964) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dark and sad will be the hour to this nation when it forgets to pay grateful homage to its greatest benefactors. The offering we bring to-day is due alike to the patriot soldiers dead and their noble comrades who still live; for, whether living or dead, whether in time or eternity, the loyal soldiers who imperiled all for country and freedom are one and inseparable.”
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) said by 1895 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I recommend getting your heart trampled on to anyone Yeah, oh. I recommend walkin' around naked in your living room Yeah.Swallow it down (What a jagged little pill) It feels so good (Swimming in your stomach) Wait until the dust settlesYou live, you learn. You love, you learn. You cry, you learn. You lose, you learn. You bleed, you learn. You scream, you learn.”
Alanis Morissette (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source