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“A political society does not live to conduct foreign policy; it would be more correct to say that it conducts foreign policy in order to live.”
George F. Kennan (1904–2005) first seen 1954 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lecture at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (March 1954); published in “The Two Planes of International Reality” in Realities of American Foreign Policy (1954), p. 4
“Not all women, in fact, very few, have had the good fortune to live and work among women and men actively involved in the . Many of us live in circumstances and environments where we must engage in feminist struggle alone, with only occasional support and affirmation.”
Bell hooks (1952–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Worthy work carries with it the hope of pleasure in rest, the hope of the pleasure in our using what it makes, and the hope of pleasure in our daily creative skill. All other work but this is worthless; it is slaves' work — mere toiling to live, that we may live to toil.”
William Morris (1834–1896) said by 1896 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.”
Bruce Springsteen (born 1949) first seen 1975 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Time magazine (27 October 1975)
“Look here, uh ... see here's another thing you guys don't understand ... you've got an underworld and a overworld ... you guys live in the overworld ... I live in the underworld”
Charles Manson (1934–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I die, when I die, I'll rot. But when I live, but when I live, I'll give it all I've got.”
Sufjan Stevens (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Men live after their death—they live not only in their writings or their chronicled history, but still more in that ἄγραφος μνήμη exhibited in a school of pupils who trace their moral parentage to them.”
John Henry Newman (1801–1890) first seen 1830 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Rev. S. Rickards (20 July 1830), quoted in Letters and Correspondence of John Henry Newman During His Life in the English Church With a Brief Autobiography, Vol. I, ed. Anne Mozley (1890), p. 203
“Learn as if you were to live forever; live as if you were to die tomorrow.”
John Wooden (1910–2010) said by 2010 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All I can say is at 82, if I had it to live over again, I'd live it the same, sweet — or not so sweet — way. At 82, I feel like a 20-year-old. But unfortunately, there's never one around.”
Milton Berle (1908–2002) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At his 82nd birthday party, as quoted in "Uncle Miltie's Birthday Bash" by the Associated Press, The Journal-News (July 13, 1990), p. 3
“A young woman can live off the folly of men; a man of any age can live off the folly of women.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read.”
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) said by 1873 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is an inevitable law that a man, in spite of himself, should live for something higher than his own happiness. He cannot live in himself or for himself, however egotistical he may try to be. Every desire he has links him with others.”
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) said by 1873 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Frankly, part of me says…"you know what, we deserve the problem on our hands because some things Bin Laden says are true". One of the things he said on that last tape was that "until we live in security, you’re not going to live in security", and there is a certain amount of rightness in that.”
Norman Finkelstein (born 1953) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People: A Conversation with Professor Norman Finkelstein,” CounterPunch (December 13, 2001) by Don Atapattu
“Since Pharaoh’s bits were pushed into the jaws of kings, these dyings — patient or impatient, but dyings — have happened, by the hundreds of millions; they were all wasted. They taught us to kill others and to die ourselves, but never how to live. Who is “taught to live” by cruelty, suffering, stupidity, and that occupational disease of soldiers, death?”
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't sit here / I want to live above / I want to live just once!" (from Brava Giulia, 1987)”
Vasco Rossi (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fourth rule is: Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules. You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”
Saul Alinsky (1909–1972) said by 1972 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These monster cities we live in today are blights of modern society. They will certainly give way to planned cities interlinked to the countryside. Everybody will live with the natural advantages of the country and the cultural associations of the town.”
James P. Cannon (1890–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If Jeezy's payin' LeBron, I'm payin' Dwyane Wade Three dice Cee-lo, three Card Molly Labor Day Parade, rest in peace Bob Marley Statue of Liberty, long live the World Trade Long live the King yo, I'm from the Empire State that's”
“By all means I will be married if you wish it. But on these conditions: everything must be as it has been hitherto—that is, she must live in Moscow while I live in the country, and I will come and see her. ... I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.”
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to A.S. Suvorin (March 23, 1895)
“Resolved, to live with all my might, while I do live.”
Jonathan Edwards (theologian) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I shall not die but live — in the mean time dear F. let us live as merrily but as innocently as we can. — It has ever been as good, if not better, than a bishoprick to me — and I desire no other.”
Laurence Sterne (1713–1768) first seen 1764 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Montpellier, Jan. 15, 1764.
“Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there. We black and they white. They got things and we ain't. They do things and we can't. It's just like livin' in jail.”
Richard Wright (1908–1960) said by 1960 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To live in silence is to live like the whales.”
J. M. Coetzee (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't worry so much where you live but how you live. Make the family of man your family as well. (Edgar Cayce On the Millennium Chapter One - The great new planet earth.)”
Edgar Cayce (1877–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's. A few gifted individuals manage to do both.”
Saki (1870–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can live without a father who accepts you, but you cannot live without a world that makes some sense to you.”
Rollo May (1909–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Fascism] was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly.”
Oswald Mosley (1896–1980) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Excerpt from My Life by Oswald Mosley (1968), Ch.16.
“Live through deeds of love, and let others live understanding their unique intentions: this is the fundamental principle of free human beings.”
Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fundamental maxim of free men is to live in love towards our actions, and to let live in the understanding of the other person's will.”
Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925) said by 1925 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To live effectively is to live with adequate information.”
Norbert Wiener (1894–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Take it back Oh, take it back I don't want your lovin', anymore Let me live Oh, let me live It's not you who I sing for”
Zooey Deschanel (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The changing seasons of the Midwest – the intense heat in summer, bitter cold in winter, and unsurpassable beauty and invigorating weather of fall and spring – is what makes it an interesting place to live. Only robust and virile people can live in such a climate and enjoy it.”
Nile Kinnick (1918–1943) first seen 1942 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Journal entry (January 6, 1942)
“So go out and live real good and I promise you'll get beat up real bad. But, in a little while after you're dead, you'll be rotted away anyway. It's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.”
Rich Mullins (1955–1997) first seen 1997 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lufkin, Texas (July 19, 1997)
“My wife said "I want to sell the house and buy a yacht". I said "What?! You do realise I live here? Comedian, Scottish guy. There's 3 kids over there, each have their own rooms. C'mon, I'll show you, they live here too.”
Billy Connolly (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I’ve grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place. So let’s peek behind the curtain and hail the others like us. The open-faced sandwiches who take risks and live big and smile with all of their teeth. These are the people I want to be around. This is the honest way I want to live and love and write.”
Amy Poehler (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In Sacramento, my brown was not halfway between black and white. On the leafy streets, on the east side of town, where my family lived, where Asians did not live, where Negroes did not live, my family's Mexican shades passed as various.”
Richard Rodriguez (born 1944) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“3263. Live, and let live.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'd rather live in the gutter embracing reality than live like a king embracing unreality.”
“Therefore, he developed an ethical theory which had room both for instincts as well as the intellect. He said that man is not one but multiple; He is not one self, but a colony of selves. He must live all his selves and all his parts, and live them not moderately but fully.”
Ram Swarup (1920–1998) said by 1998 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don't regret one minute of the twelve years I've spent in baseball, but I could regret one season too many. [...] I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with complete use of my body.”
Sandy Koufax (born 1935) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1966 press conference announcing retirement, as quoted by UPI, in "Sandy Koufax Announces Retirement from Baseball at News Meeting" by Alex Kahn (UPI), in The Pittsfield Berkshire Eagle (November 19, 1966)
“What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. They are to be happy in: Where can we live but days?”
Philip Larkin (1922–1985) first seen 1953 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Days" [1953]
“I hope I will live to see a final meeting of the minds between Puerto Rico and statehood, but [even] if I don't live that long, I am certain it will happen.”
Luis A. Ferré (1904–2003) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by the Associated Press after the 1998 status referendum in Puerto Rico.
“More than ever before, for humanity to live under capitalism, is to live on borrowed time.”
David Horowitz (1939–2025) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: from the 1969 book Empire and Revolution.
“You must learn to live within yourself … You must establish the values by which you live. You must first recognize the need, and if it is right you will be amazed at how things will open up.”
Cary Grant (1904–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are two types of people in this world: those who live in the cities - or 'citizens' as I call them - and those who live in the countryside... who shall remain nameless.”
Simon Munnery (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than love and the physical rather than the intellect. We live in the container culture, which despises the content.”
Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Parkour belongs to the ones who live it, not the ones who want to live thanks to it.”
David Belle (born 1973) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: David Belle Communique, Paris July 25th 2006
“I am convinced that those societies (as the Indians) which live without government enjoy in their general mass an infinitely greater degree of happiness than those who live under the European governments.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) first seen 1787 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Colonel Edward Carrington, Paris, (16 January 1787)
“Oh, Richard!" exclaimed she, on one occasion, "if you would but dismiss such gloomy subjects from your mind, you would live as long as any of us; at least you would live to see the girls married, and yourself a happy grandfather, with a canty old dame for your companion.”
Anne Brontë (1820–1849) said by 1849 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We're extremely fortunate not to know precisely the kind of world we live in. One would have to live a long, long time, unquestionably longer than the world itself.”
Wisława Szymborska (1923–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source