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“Someone who wants to grow with me, that doesn’t just live but wants to learn and progress in every area of his life. A life lover. Someone honest and most importantly someone with a big heart and a pure soul.”
Xenia Tchoumitcheva (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What I was trying to say in the article was that you can look ahead of the curve and say, ‘I know this isn’t going to go on forever. This will end.’ It’s all about being hopeful, but it’s also about remembering that you were somebody with a life and connections, and you will live that life again in time.”
Hamid Ekbia (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“don’t forget to take time to take care of yourself, to discover who you are, what you want in life and to live life to the fullest.”
Tendaiishe Chitima first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: #WomensMonth: Tendaiishe Chitima shares her passion for the creative arts 4 August, 2021
“Cleo's motto seemed to be: Life's tough and that's okay, because life is also fantastic. Love it, live it - but don't be fooled into thinking it's not harsh sometimes. Those who've survived periods of bleakness are often better at savoring good times and wise enough to understand that good times are actually great.”
Helen Brown (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is my life. These are the choices that I make. I make no apologies for them... you cannot live a life of regret.”
Iza Calzado (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We both feel it. 'Cause we are best friends in the movie and in real life. We're like brothers, and we have a line, 'when you live again, you're my guardian angel', in real life he's like that to me.”
Nova Villa (born 1947) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nova Villa turns emotional while sharing friendship with Ces Quesada, MJ Felipe, ABS-CBN News 6 May 2025.
“It serves also as a message to everyone that if your dreams mean more to you than money, than fame, or than anything else, then it’s worth pursuing. It’s worth risking everything. You can see that in the life that I live. And now I am proud to be Bb. Pilipinas Globe. I left my life there, but I’m beginning anew here. And I began it with a bang.”
Jasmin Bungay first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jasmin Bungay on how her OFW experience can help clinch Miss Globe 2024 crown, The Philippine Star 14 October, 2024.
“Yes! I could find some comfort in the thought Of being scourged, Were there but hope that this defiling sin Which mars my life, and taints my heart within Could so be purged, And I might live, in virtue of the rod, The life in God.”
Walter Chalmers Smith (1824–1908) first seen 1883 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lost and Won". North Country Folk: Poems (Glasgow: James Maclehose & Sons, 1883) p. 79. Compare: Ezekiel, xx, 37: "And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant.
“I look at life in a poetic way. I love to live and I think that poor people in my country are all doing their best to work and to create life.”
Ateyyat El Abnoudy (1938–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We see ourselves as the generation that needs to build, so our parents can live a comfortable life, and our children can have a better life than we did”
Liesl Laurie (born 1991) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Anyone could live this life, he reflected, provided they had the sense to give up the other way of life.”
Arto Paasilinna (1942–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah! O crow, give up this life and live anew! In view of God’s changes cast away your life! Choose the new, give up the old, For each single present year is better than three past.”
Rumi (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The good man prolongs his life; to be able to enjoy one's past life is to live twice.”
Martial (40–104) said by 104 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“My narrative may be invaded by inaccuracy and confusion; but if I live no longer, I will, at least, live to complete it. What but ambiguities, abruptnesses, and dark transitions, can be expected from the historian who is, at the same time, the sufferer of these disasters?”
Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810) said by 1810 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Bid me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be, Or bid me love, and I will give A loving heart to thee. A heart as soft, a heart as kind, A heart as sound and free As in the whole world thou canst find, That heart I'll give to thee.”
Robert Herrick (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If that is not the case, then we are talking about something that happened in the past, even if it was today, this morning, but it's over. You know, there are people dead and buried in their graves still affecting people, because no one ever forgave them for what they did — that's what not forgiving does — it lets an event live and live with bitterness and hurt, when it needs to be let go.”
Ysabella Brave (born 1979) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Forgiveness" (7 July 2007)
“Be careful what you say if you wouldn't want it broadcast everywhere — because you never know. My basic advice would be — for trust — is: Live the way you ought to live — all the time — as much as you can help it.”
Ysabella Brave (born 1979) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Trust — what's the secret?" (27 January 2008)
“We cannot accept the fact that Jews wouldn't be entitled to live and buy anywhere in Jerusalem. I can only imagine what would happen if someone suggested Jews could not live in certain neighborhoods in New York, London, Paris or Rome. There would certainly be a major international outcry.”
Benjamin Netanyahu (born 1949) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Israel rejects U.S. call to halt Jerusalem project" in USA Today (19 July 2009)
“Long live the walls we crashed through, All the kingdom lights shined just for me and you. I was screaming, "Long live all the magic we made," And bring on all the pretenders. One day we will be remembered.”
Taylor Swift (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The battle will decide whether Germany is to live or die. Your soldiers must fight hard and ruthlessly. There must be no pity. The enemy must be beaten, now or never. Thus will live our Germany! Forward to and over the Meuse!”
Wilhelm Mohnke (1911–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "The Longest Winter" - Page 71 - by Alex Kershaw - History - 2004.
“Mother prepared me to live in the world, but she didn't try to make me into a social being just so I could hang out with other teenagers at the lake, or have pajama parties with other girls. Her eyes were on a bigger prize - giving me the skills and nurturing the talents that would allow me to graduate from school, attend college, find a satisfying job and live independently.”
Temple Grandin (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You see, you are an optimist and live on hope. I am a pessimist and live on experience.”
Malcolm Bradbury (1932–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Maybe we have to contribute ideologies to achieve the perfect utopian government. Remember, government-sponsored health care was a communist idea. Should only the rich be allowed to live long? Does that say that because a person is poor, he is a lesser human being; and doesn't deserve to live as long, because he doesn't wear a tie to work?”
Timothy McVeigh (1968–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People are able to live with only half a heart, to live without real compassion, because they are able to use words that are only forms.”
Angus Wilson (1913–1991) first seen 1972 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed in Iona Review no. 3 (Fall 1972).
“We tell stories and listen to them because we live stories and live in them.”
John Barth (1930–2024) first seen 1981 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Tales Within Tales Within Tales" (1981), p. 236
“To live like a lion for a day is far better than to live for a hundred years like a jackal.”
Tipu Sultan (1751–1799) said by 1799 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Encyclopedia of Asian History (1988) Vol. 4, p. 104
“I don't live in the fast lane I live on the off ramp.”
Fred Shero (1925–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you don't live with kids they grow to hate you. If you live with them they hate you more. Not a shred of respect. [...] Take my money, and then look me in the eye and say who asked you to be our father.”
J. P. Donleavy (1926–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There haven’t been fundamental structural changes in America. There’s been a very important symbolic change and that is the election of Barack Obama. But the only black people who truly live in a post-racial world in America all live in a very nice house on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”
Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born 1950) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview with The Root, July 21, 2009.
“It is better to live poorly upon the fruits of God’s goodness than live plentifully upon the products of our own sin.”
T. B. Joshua (1963–2021) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In a sermon titled 'Our Condition' - "Indebted Ghanaian Saved From Prostitution By TB Joshua" The Ghanaian Journal (August 4 2009)
“Remember, you are not a tree, that can live or stand alone. You are only a branch. And it is only while you abide in Christ, as the branch in the vine, that you will flourish or even live.”
Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1813–1843) said by 1843 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?”
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Fatal Fulfillment" (Short Story), March 1970. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
“Islam needs to delegitimise the urge to “behead all those who insult the Prophet” but only Muslims can do this. That’s why everyone interested in a safer world should be reaching out to “live and let live” Muslims and encouraging them to reclaim their faith from the zealots.”
Tony Abbott (born 1957) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An historical, national Jewish right to the city of Jerusalem does not extinguish the property rights of individual Arab homesteaders acquired over the years. Muslims residing in East Jerusalem must just learn to extend to their Jewish neighbors the courtesy their Muslim brethren receive from their Jewish neighbors, in Israel proper. In other words, allow Jews to live in peace. Or, just to live.”
Ilana Mercer first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Make Jerusalem Safe Again" The Unz Review, January 25, 2017
“We don't live in our fears, we live in our hopes.”
Mike Tomlin (born 1972) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Following the Steelers win over the Rams in 2007, quoted in "Steelers Notebook: Turf wars — Natural or artificial at Heinz Field?" by Gerry Dulac in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (22 December 2007)
“My dad always told us never to live where we could see the smoke from another man's chimney. He told us we should never live so close to another's house that the chickens would mingle in the woods.”
Jesse Stuart (1907–1984) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Conversations with Jesse Stuart, Dave Peyton. May 5, 1975.
“I want to live in a city where the people who make the rules have to live by them.”
Martin Firrell (born 1963) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every dollar counts And every morning hurts We mostly work to live Until we live to work”
Ezra Koenig (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Goethe, whose letters I've been reading very intensively during the past few weeks, is always stressing Verträglichkeit - agreeing to live and let live - as the most important element of friendship: we shouldn't try to change people, but simply let them be as they are, making the best of even partial concord, instead of trying to force a fictitious perfect harmony.”
Ida Friederike Görres (1901–1971) first seen 1951 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Broken Lights p. 82 Diaries 1951-1952
“'Long live the king,' cry the loving and the loyal, beside themselves with joy. 'Long live the king,' responds the republican hypocrite in dire terror. What does it matter? There is only one cry. And the king is crowned.”
Joseph de Maistre (1753–1821) said by 1821 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have studied the Jewish problem scientifically. Essentially it is an abnormal situation that the Jews should live among other races, whereby they violate the great natural law that every race shall live in its own country.”
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899–1938) said by 1938 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What a disgrace to live at the beginning of the 20th century. … One is always influenced by one's own time. And ours is that of Sarah Bernhardt and Rostand. Things will be much better in another ten years. You will see a new art born, new and beautiful. You will see that, but I shall not. I shall be dead. But … Sarah Bernhardt will live forever, and go on playing L'AIGLON forever!”
Renée Vivien (1877–1909) said by 1909 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you. Were your ancestors 'primitive'? I don't think so. We respect our ancestors. We love our children. This is the same for all people.”
Roy Sesana (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We have no sympathy with those who are controlled by ideas and passions which we neither understand nor feel. Thus they who live to satisfy the appetites do not believe it possible to live in and for the soul.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The more we live with what we imagine others think of us, the less we live with truth.”
John Lancaster Spalding (1840–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[In] the world we used to live in... there were some choices, but not everything was a matter of choice, and the world we now live in looks like [The Ten Commandments Do-It-Yourself Kit]. Is this good news or bad news? [T]he answer is both.”
Barry Schwartz (psychologist) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If I were to live to the world's end, and do all the good that man can do, I must still cry, " Mercy!" Why then should I be unwilling or afraid to die this moment, with a sense of God's pardoning love, when I can have no other claim to salvation if I were to live forever?”
Thomas Adam (1701–1784) said by 1784 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As fish cannot live without water, so guerrillas cannot live without the people.”
Kim Il-sung (1912–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided man.”
Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) said by 1968 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source