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“I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.”
Christopher Hampton (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I would live in your love as the sea-grasses live in the sea, Borne up by each wave as it passes, drawn down by each wave that recedes.”
Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion; if you want to live in that paradise where happy mares and stallions live, open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.”
Orhan Pamuk (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Some live lies who won’t tell them; some tell lies who won’t live them.”
Henry S. Haskins (1875–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[Failed to answer a "video call" on a pair of glasses.] Uh-oh. That’s too bad. I don’t know what to tell you guys. It’s really live. That’s how we prove it’s live.”
Mark Zuckerberg (born 1984) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Almost Everything Went Wrong in Zuckerberg’s Meta Connect Keynote. Why His Awkward Response Was a Huge Win. Inc. (Sept 20, 2025)
“Under British law, you’re not allowed to fire a live round unless you are a qualified armourer. This is why the live game has to take place overseas.”
Derren Brown (born 1971) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you live in a glass house, don't be chucking stuff about. - Karl interprets the phrase Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.”
Karl Pilkington (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People who live in a glass house have to answer the door - Karl invents his own phrase based on Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.”
Karl Pilkington (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dear God I've heard your name from teachers, family and friends, you made the universe and so will live on when it ends. Everyone I know admits they’ve never seen your face, they’re not sure where you live and have no map to the place.”
Dawud Wharnsby (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People who fear death live no longer than those who don't, and live scared.”
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Wizard Knight (2004), Volume 1: The Knight, Ch. 62
“As you intend to live hereafter, it is in your power to live here.”
Gene Wolfe (1931–2019) first seen 1994 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Volume 2: Lake of the Long Sun (1994), Ch. 1
“If Brexit is a disaster, I will go and live abroad, I'll go and live somewhere else.”
Nigel Farage (born 1964) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Responding to a caller's question on his talk radio show, LBC, 27 March 2017
“The Book of Job is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of nature. Leviathan is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of the state.”
Donald Phillip Verene (born 1937) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When she's layin' on my shoulder on the sofa in the dark And about the time she falls asleep, so does my right arm. And I want so bad to move it, 'cause it's tinglin' and it's numb; But she looks so much like an angel that I don't wanna wake her up. Yeah I live for little moments When she steals my heart again and doesn't even know it. Yeah I live for little moments like that.”
Brad Paisley (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we live in a plebeianized world, it is because so many human beings have busied themselves making a world fir only for plebeians to live in.”
R. W. K. Paterson (born 1933) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I can’t live forever. Each time something like this affair lands in my lap, I suddenly recall that I don’t want to live forever.”
Scott Lynch (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you do not care about networks, the networks will care about you, anyway. For as long as you want to live in society, at this time and in this place, you will have to deal with the network society. Because we live in the Internet Galaxy.”
Manuel Castells (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The fearsome fact of our time is that other elements than the government have assumed the role of directing our affairs. To a very large extent the way we live and the things we live for are determined by the interests of powerful and monopolistic corporations”
Stanley Knowles (1908–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Had you learned to flatter the Kaiser, you would need not live in the back woods.” “Had you learned to live in the back woods, you would need not flatter the Kaiser.”
Michael F. Flynn (1947–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Much of my criticism of religion comes about when I see it not only affirming the system of normalcy but teaching folks how to live there comfortably. It just increases our “stuckness” in the old world. As does a lot of poor psychotherapy. Cheap religion teaches us how to live successfully in a sick system.”
Richard Rohr (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With the truth, one cannot live. To be able to live one needs illusions, not only outer illusions such as art, religion, philosophy, science and love afford, but inner illusions which first condition the outer [i.e., a secure sense of one’s active powers, and of being able to count on the powers of others].”
Ernest Becker (1924–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If various races and nationalities can live together peaceably in the United States, why is it not within the bounds of possibility that they can learn to live this way throughout the earth?”
Kirby Page (1890–1957) said by 1957 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I try to forget about the bitter past as I [also] recommend for my fellow countrymen. I do not live in the past, I live in the present, always hoping for a brighter future. This is my message to all my countrymen.”
Farah Pahlavi (born 1938) first seen 2010 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview: Farah Pahlavi Recalls 30 Years In Exile, Radio Free Europe, (July 27, 2010).
“In science he could see nothing useful to mankind. ...He advised the scientist the surgeon the teacher and the artist to go and live as the poor live and try to minister to their actual wants instead of counting up insects chemically analyzing the contents of the Milky Way painting water nymphs and historical pictures writing novels and composing symphonies.”
Robert Hunter (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To the realpolitik cynics who say Islamist theocracy is a reality we have to live with, I respond: funny – they never said they can live with YOU! To those who say the theocrats can reform if we are nice to them, I say you do not know the difference between Islamist revolution and secular ones. Those who believe they speak with the absolute authority of Allah demand absolute submission.”
Reza Pahlavi (born 1960) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement by Reza Pahlavi of Iran - Democracy & Security Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, Jun. 5, 2007.
“Ow! Have mercy on my little Tulane She's too alive to try to live alone And I know her needs And although she loves me She's gonna try to make it While the poor boy's gone Somebody should tell her to live And I'll understand it And even love her more When I come back home”
Chuck Berry (1926–2017) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Have Mercy Judge" (1970)
“Characters in novels are all fiction like the world they live in. Of course Vivien Lash has things in common with me but if she actually was me I wouldn’t have been able to invent her. And I’m not plotting to murder my husband! The closest connection between me and my characters is that we live in a city that’s recognisable as London, but it’s a version of London that came out of my head.”
Carole Morin wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Time does not live for them, they (girls) live in the absolute. A curious creature. But then all women are curious creatures, girls above all.”
Remy de Gourmont (1858–1915) said by 1915 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is important to inject love into the place where you live. It is not healthy to rent an interior designer to create a home for you because it is not good to live in another person's fantasy. People should select for themselves and stamp their own identity on a place. They should mix and match everything to make their own cocktail.”
Philippe Starck (born 1949) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attributed to Starck in: Vinny Lee (2002) The Essential Guide to Decorating
“It’s a terrible thing, being afraid. It’s like an illness; like wanting to fall down, and not being able to faint. You see you never get used to it. You live with it and live with it and every day it’s worse; and one day it’s the worst of all. I thought, when it...happened, I wouldn’t be afraid. But I was wrong....”
Keith Roberts (1935–2000) said by 2000 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My point is simply that kids turn out okay as long as the parents are involved, no matter where they live. It's not like small towns have a monopoly on values. I mean, I'm sure if I did some digging, I'd find lots of kids that were in trouble here, too. Kids are kids, no matter where they live.”
Nicholas Sparks (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I chose to dream and act on my dreams, following the example that my father taught. To live with this dream may be crazy, it may be foolish, but to live without it would be a nightmare.”
Yolanda King (1955–2007) said by 2007 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Everybody exists. It is only the few who live. To live, you should have an ideal.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is not necessary to live in India to be a Hindu. In fact one must live in harmony with the land where one is located to be a true Hindu.”
David Frawley (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To live, indeed, is not in our power; but to live rightly is.”
Quintus Sextius (51–101 BC) said by 101 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As he mentions this last sin, he looks down my nightgown, which I’m just loving. I press his hand against my warm thigh. “Don’t worry, sweetie. I don’t live in Hell. I live in San Jose.”
Rudy Rucker (born 1946) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to put my little affairs in order that I may live, if I am to live, or at least die, in comfort...and do, my good friend, let me then have a final account with you; for I am strongly inclined to suspect that we shall never meet again.”
Joseph Ritson (1752–1803) said by 1803 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We’ve got to find a way to make the world work for everyone. Climate change is an issue that impacts [sic] that greatly by making it harder for people to live where they live, by causing disruptions, and lack of resources.”
Ron Klain (born 1961) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interviewed, together with his wife, at Georgetown University gotnews (2008)
“Someone once told me that archaeologists are anthropologists who don’t like live people. They dig up dead ones because dead ones can’t talk back. That’s not quite true. But I think live people are too fast for most archaeologists. We’re a slow-moving lot. We look at a change in pottery technology that took a hundred years and say that’s pretty quick. We’re used to taking our time.”
Pat Murphy (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Muhammad isn't sacred to me. I don't blame Muslims for not laughing at our drawings. I live under French law. I don't live under Quranic law.”
Charb (1967–2015) first seen 2012 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Deccan Chronicle (2012)
“Lewd did I live & evil I did dwel (Lewd did I live, evil I did dwel)”
John Taylor (1578–1653) first seen 1614 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Early author-attributed palindrome (c. 1614); reported in Dave Fisher, The Wonderful World of Palindromes (October 30, 2015).
“The live-and-let-live system that emerged in the bitter trench warfare of World War I demonstrates that friendship is hardly necessary for cooperation based upon reciprocity to get started. Under suitable circumstances, cooperation can develop even between antagonists.”
Robert Axelrod (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People think it’s a failure to live alone. But it isn’t. The failure is to live with someone because you can’t face anything else.”
M. John Harrison (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[...] It is better to live for just a single day as a ruler than to live for forty years as an abject slave.”
Babak Khorramdin (798–838) said by 838 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: Al-Tabari
“Man cannot live on charm alone, and an ambitious man cannot live on anything less than wealth, good social connections and substantial political influence.”
Susan Howatch (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have always been a great believer in today. Most people live either in the past or in the future, so that they really never live at all. So many people are busy worrying about the future of art or society, they have no time to preserve what is. Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.”
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) said by 1946 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Modern Art and America: Alfred Stieglitz and His New York Galleries, Sarah Greenough, Washington: National Gallery of Art. 2000, pp. 26–53; as quoted on Wikipedia
“Only the idea of God gives me the confidence that morality will become reality on earth. And because I cannot live without this confidence, I cannot live without God.”
Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) said by 1918 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a strong element of shame in Trauma that makes thinking and behavior so inflexible. The person cannot accept adjustment, an altering of their self-concept; they won’t bear it and they won’t live with it. And if their group, clique, family, community, religion, or country also doesn’t support self-criticism, they ultimately can’t live with it.”
Sarah Schulman (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Are people like market who live as humans when they’re alone but live as great complexity when they’re in groups?”
Suman Pokhrel (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My name is Luka. I live on the second floor. I live upstairs from you. Yes, I think you've seen me before.”
Suzanne Vega (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source