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“Until what is significant is created by you, you aren’t living your life, you are living some inherited life.”
Werner Erhard (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't.”
“If they are living a fake life, they are living it for a reason, and the reason is so that they can get more jobs. Whether you like it or not, people don’t associate with broke people, so you need to fake it to make it. Fake life is expensive on its own.”
Eniola Badmus (born 1983) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: , Boomplay (October 27, 2020)
“Life is good in America, but the good life still eludes us. Our standard of living is admittedly high, but measured by those things that truly distinguish a civilization, our living standards are hardly high at all. We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.”
Stewart Udall (1920–2010) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Commencement Address, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (June 13, 1965): cited in Bruce Bohle (ed.) The Home Book of American Quotations (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1967), p. 187
“Why do I live in Israel? Because Israel lives in me, as it lives in all Jews. It is who we are. And those of us lucky enough to recognize this truth and embrace it in all its fullness and depth are the luckiest Jews in the world.”
Caroline Glick (born 1969) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Written in the award booklet for the Guardian of Zion Award presentation at Bar Ilan University (May 31, 2009)
“Ireland is a country in which the political conflicts are at least genuine; they are about something. They are about patriotism, about religion, or about money: the three great realities. In other words, they are concerned with what commonwealth a man lives in, or with what universe a man lives in, or with how he is to manage to live in either.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This difference is the ultimate distinction between Stalin and Trotsky. In Stalin, 'Lenin lives for ever' as an obscene spirit which 'does not know it is dead', artificially kept alive as an instrument of power. In Trotsky, the dead Lenin continues to live like Joe Hill he lives wherever there are people who still struggle for the same Idea”
Slavoj Žižek (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At this very moment, so many of them, our fellow Americans, are on the front lines of this pandemic trying to save lives and still — still are forced to live in fear for their lives just walking down streets in America," he said. "It's wrong, it's un-American, and it must stop.”
“All of us live by the employment of countless untested assumptions, the truth or falsehood of which we can determine only through the hazard of our lives. Since most of us value our lives more than the truth, we leave such drastic tests for the fanatics.”
Robert Sheckley (1928–2005) said by 2005 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This led to a neat generalization, which is so tidy it ought to be true and probably would be if physicists ran the world: every animal has roughly the same number of heartbeats per lifetime. An elephant lives longer than a mouse, but its pulse rate is so much slower that, measured in heartbeats, they both live lives of the same length.”
Matt Ridley (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it's medically conservative to cut people open or put them on powerful cholesterol-lowering drugs for the rest of their lives … Animal products are the main culprit in what is killing us. We can absolutely live better lives without them.”
Dean Ornish (born 1953) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Roberto Suro, "Hearts and Minds", New York Times Magazine (29 December 1991).
“Our religious convictions are not a private matter. We may think our lives are private but really they are not. Our concern for family values, our sense of honesty and decency, our dedication to the church our love for the things of God, in all of these things and so many more our attention is always directed beyond to someone else. This is the way to live our lives as clergy.”
Raphael Michael Fliss (1930–2015) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ordination Homily (9 July 2007) Superior Diocese
“The case of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux powerfully underscores the fact that, by the grace of the Lord, death must, as far as possible, be a voluntary act, undertaken as a deliberate and consummate offering to the Lord, because – as has been said so many times – it is the supreme act of our lives, the act for which we live our lives.”
Giuseppe Dossetti (1913–1996) said by 1996 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All those moments in our lives—and in our children's lives—become eternally meaningful as we live out the reality of the ministry of motherhood. In so doing, we truly give our children an eternal gift—the gift of knowing and following the Lord who gives us everything.”
Sally Clarkson (born 1953) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Ministry of Motherhood: Following Christ's Example in Reaching the Hearts of our Children (2004), WaterBrook Press. p. 18.
“The man who will live above his present circumstances is in great danger of living in a little time much beneath them; or as the Italian proverb runs, "The man who lives by hope, will die by hunger.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) first seen 1711 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: No. 191 (9 October 1711)
“And this God, the living God, your God, our God, is in me, is in you, lives in us, and we live and move and have our being in Him. And he is in us by virtue of the hunger, the longing, which we have for Him, He is Himself creating the longing for Himself.”
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) said by 1936 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is not good to feel too much joy, nor to be glad that our body lives. For we matter not and it must not matter to us whether we live or die, which is to be as our brothers will it. But we, Equality 7-2521, are glad to be living. If this is a vice, then we wish no virtue.”
Ayn Rand (1905–1982) said by 1982 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The dead do not suffer. And if they live again, their lives will surely be as good as ours. We have no fear. We are all children of the same mother, and the same fate awaits us all. We, too, have our religion, and it is this: Help for the living, hope for the dead.”
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) said by 1899 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How many special people change? / How many lives are living strange? / Where were you while we were getting high? People believe that they're gonna get away for the summer/ But you and I/ We live and die/ The world 's still spinning round we don't know why. Someday you will find me, caught beneath a landslide / In a champagne supernova in the sky.”
Noel Gallagher (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yet saw he something in the lives Of those who'd ceased to live That rounded them with majesty Which living failed to give.”
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have a saying, “Where one lives, all live; where one suffers, all suffer.” One, in our language, includes all living things. In your language someone has said, “No man is an island,” which encompasses the concept but which, by mentioning only mankind, misses the point.”
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Alice doesn't live in the restaurant, she lives in the church nearby the restaurant, in the bell-tower, with her husband Ray and Fasha the dog. And living in the bell tower like that, they got a lot of room downstairs where the pews used to be in. Having all that room, seeing as how they took out all the pews, they decided that they didn't have to take out their garbage for a long time.”
Arlo Guthrie (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Myriads of individuals, each one unique, live out their lives in rapt intercourse with one another, contribute their heart’s pulses to the universal music, and presently vanish, giving place to others. All this age-long sequence of private living, which is the actual tissue of humanity’s flesh, I cannot describe. I can only trace, as it were, the disembodied form of its growth.”
Olaf Stapledon (1886–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“God hath made the pious living in their death and hath made the wicked dead during their lives, i.e., the pious, though they be dead, yet live, since the angels utter blessings on their piety until they are made immortal by the recompense which they receive at the Resurrection.”
Shaqiq al-Balkhi (died 810) said by 810 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I live in daily gratitude for everything I have now that would have been unfathomable for Chinese immigrants not so long ago. Our lives are built on the shoulders of giants. Honoring their legacy means living up to our privilege and continuing to push the movement forward. My vision for the beautiful country is this: to every new generation, more rights, more equality, more justice.”
Qian Julie Wang (born 1987) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Immigrant’s Story, Once Secret, Told At Last" in Kirkus (2 September 2021)
“Everyone still lives with the consequences. Some of the perpetrators went to jail, but they come back and live close to the survivors. The genocide is not over; the survivors are still living with those who committed the crimes.”
Godeliève Mukasarasi (born 1959) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How Rwandans Cope With the Horror of 1994. The Atlantic. (April 2014)
“Neat and clean. That's the way I want to live. My idea of the perfect living room would be the bridge on the Starship Enterprise: big chair, nice TV, remote control. That's why Star Trek really was the ultimate male fantasy. Hurtling through space in your living room, watching TV.”
Jerry Seinfeld (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Too much time is spent getting ready to live and making a living and not enough in living dynamically and enjoyably right now. The most important thing – and I am sure I am right – is to maintain an active, alert interest in everything going on about you.”
Nile Kinnick (1918–1943) first seen 1939 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to his parents (January 16, 1939)
“American women, like so many others around the world, were trained largely to live as second-class citizens, and living as a second-class citizen meant living as a victim. It was only by empowering them with full social and economic equality that average mothers, wives, and daughters of the world stood a chance of providing for themselves and the offspring they bore.”
“Life cannot wait until the sciences may have explained the universe scientifically. We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, "here and now" without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank. And culture, which is but its interpretation, cannot wait any more than can life itself.”
José Ortega y Gasset (1883–1955) first seen 1930 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mission of the University [Misión de la Universidad (PDF)] (1930; translation © 1944, first published 1946), p. 73 [p. 15 in Spanish PDF], translated by Howard Lee Nostrand.
“It is important for human beings and animals to drink healthy water. Chemically purified water, chlorinated or ozonated water is no longer living and healthy water. Good water, full of life and rich in energy, is synonymous with strong and healthy life. Bad water is synonymous with sick life. No water is the same as no life.”
Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have to also realise that celibacy itself is not an easy life and I think anyone who tells you it's an easy life, will not be truthful. Celibacy is not an easy life but is a life that is worth living with the grace of God.”
Robert Ndlovu (born 1955) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: ‘Pius Ncube now living a life of prayer’ (5 August 2012)
“We have two lives, Roy, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.”
Bernard Malamud (1914–1986) first seen 1952 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Natural (1952), p. 152
“Someone like Mary Daly doesn't even know how people live-but other women, I think they come from suburban lives or something like that, and no family. That's a certain kind of life but it's not general female life.”
Mary Daly (1928–2010) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1981 interview anthologized in Conversations with Grace Paley edited by Gerhard Bach and Blaine Hall (1997)
“Lives of nations are determined not by the count of years, but by the lifetime of the human spirit. The life of a man is three-score years and ten: a little more, a little less. The life of a nation is the fullness of the measure of its will to live.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Someone like Mary Daly doesn't even know how people live-but other women, I think they come from suburban lives or something like that, and no family. That's a certain kind of life but it's not general female life. (1981)”
Grace Paley (1922–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.”
Steven Pressfield (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is not cinema harnessing life; this is life harnessing cinema. Not a film. An attempt at a film. The imperfect effort is ever present, mischievously decorating every frame. Reminding us: one never actually makes a film—one merely attempts to make a film. Reminding us: one never actually lives—one attempts to live.”
Scott Crary (born 1978) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in “180 Words on Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot Le Fou” in Cinema Magazine (2004)
“Success is when you live a purposeful life, an intentional life and creating a positive impact on other people’s lives.”
Purity Ngina (born 1990) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dr Purity Ngina on Rewriting Your Story", Qazini (May 28, 2019)
“Despite everything he had or might have (except, of course, another human being), life gave no promise of improvement or even of change. The way things shaped up, he would live out his life with no more than he already had. And how many years was that? Thirty, maybe forty if he didn’t drink himself to death. The thought of forty more years of living as he was made him shudder.”
Richard Matheson (1926–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am not afraid to lose because politics is not the air I'm breathing. In fact, I long for the day when I'm no longer in politics and will live a quiet and less complicated life - I won't use the word simple because I'm living a simple life now.”
Francis Escudero (born 1969) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kap Maceda Aguila, "The Substance of Chiz", People Asia, 2006 June, p. 51, ISSN 0119-657X.
“The very first right of every animal is the right to live. As you cannot give life to a dead creature, you do not have the right to take life away from a living one.”
Dada Vaswani (1918–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We must never lose sight of the deep and indestructible connections between translation/literature and life. If what we write is to have a chance of living on the page, then we must also live, we must observe life, we must experience and learn to transmute that experience. Translators no less than creative writers.”
John Minford (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I saw other people living life and it became clear. I was 21, and I thought this was not a way to live. I didn’t watch movies anymore. I didn’t watch TV. I was missing out on life and that is when I stopped everything.”
Mo'Cheddah (born 1990) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mo’Cheddah spoke on taking break in 2017.
“What kind of legacy do you want to leave? What life messages are worth living and dying for? You have a God-sized story to tell, a destiny to live into! Yet you must choose to take a step of faith toward Him. Now is the time; today is the day. Own your life.”
Sally Clarkson (born 1953) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Own Your Life: Living with Deep Intention, Bold Faith, and Generous Love (2015), Tyndale Momentum. p. 241.
“I wanted to be as a child, delighting in life, at peace with God, living in the grace of the moment. I wanted to live above the pull of depression and cultivate a heart of joy from which others could draw. I wanted to learn what it really meant to be filled with the reality of God, the love of God, and the joy of God every day, no matter what else was going on in my life.”
Sally Clarkson (born 1953) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dancing With My Father: How God Leads Us into a Life of Grace and Joy (2010), WaterBrook Press. p. 7.
“What a life, you wear it like propriety What a life, you do it like you really mean it What a life, I watch it like a scary movie What a life, what a life, what a life.”
Juliana Hatfield (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Life Is Beautiful: Enjoy It/ Life Is Fragile: Foster It/ Life Is Relational: Share It/ Life Is Paradoxical: Encounter It/ Life Is Fascinating: Contemplate It/ Life Is: Be”
Kuruvilla Pandikattu (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Church has her principles and one of them is life. I am only stating that the Church supports life and will always support life, regardless of the politics or laws of the moment. God is the only owner of every life conceived by woman, and as such that life will always have rights, the most important of which is the right to life.”
Luis Morales Reyes (1936–2024) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twelve Mexican states now protect right to life in their constitutions (22 May 2009) Catholic News Agency
“Those who did not fight for a place in the sun for White children will not live in that place after Ragnarok. To allow them to live among us would be a disgrace to the memory of Robert Mathews and to all who have sacrificed their lives, their freedom, their time or their wealth for the Fourteen Words.”
David Lane (white nationalist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source