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“Each of us must live within that reality. Forecasting is not an exact science—the future leaves no footprints. We cannot predict the future because we cannot precisely measure the present. Quantum mechanics proved that. We live in a probability-based world. We all know that the sun will rise in the morning. But even that’s just a high probability. Nothing is assured—nothing.”
L. K. Samuels (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Twice in this century men have died by the millions, largely because in what might have been the golden age of history men have learned to live with machines and have forgotten how to live with one another.”
Robert Menzies (1894–1978) first seen 1949 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1949 election campaign speech delivered in Melbourne (10 November 1949) — "Robert Menzies (1949)", Australian Federal Election Speeches (MoAD)
“I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think. I want to say, “Here, look where you can live, look what you can think.” I concentrate on giving this to young people because they are the treasurers of black culture.”
Ntozake Shange (1948–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love is the Law of God. You live that you may learn to love. You love that you may learn to live. No other lesson is required of Man.”
Mikha'il Na'ima (1889–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For a lazy man I work awfully hard, I couldn't live without acting. In fact anybody who can live without that feeling is a complete idiot.”
Peter Lorre (1904–1964) first seen 1964 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Movie Villain Peter Lorre Found Dead in His Hollywood Apartment", Los Angeles Times (March 24, 1964)
“I think cooking completes you as a woman. … I woke up one morning and said, I can't do this [eating meat] to myself anymore. I didn't feel good. I was constipated all the time. … I used to live to eat. Now I eat to live.”
Brandy Norwood (born 1979) first seen 2002 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About her vegan lifestyle. “Brandy: Baby Baby Baby Baby Talks About Growing Up, Becoming A Vegan And Keeping Her Marriage A Big Secret,” in Vibe (April 2002), p. 104.
“It doesn’t make much sense, does it?” my darling whispered to me. “People go at the oddest times and from the oddest causes.” “Soldiers live,” I muttered. “You’re turning that into a mantra.” “You feel guilty. You wonder why him and not me, then you’re glad it was him and not you, then you feel guilty. Soldiers live. And wonder why.”
“There's no chance for us It's all decided for us This world has only one sweet moment Set aside for usWho wants to live forever? Who wants to live forever? Who dares to love forever Oh, when love must die?”
Brian May (born 1947) first seen 1986 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Who Wants to Live Forever", on A Kind of Magic (1986) · "Queen - Who Wants To Live Forever (Official Video)" · "Queen & Seal - Who Wants To Live Forever (Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert)" (20 April 1992)
“When strawberries go begging, and the sleek Blue plums lie open to the blackbird’s beak, We shall live well — we shall live very well.”
Elinor Wylie (1885–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Much as we live in an economic and social order that is structured to exploit people, we live in one that is structured to exploit animals. We’re encouraged to understand both are natural and inevitable, but neither are. Both exploitations have long and contentious histories as part of the development of our modern economic order.”
Bob Torres wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You can't say to people, you're too weak to live with freedom, only that group is strong enough to live with freedom.”
Alan Charles Kors (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I think we have to acknowledge that our windows are being washed at this very moment while we're trying to do our report, but live TV, this just demonstrates this is live TV and that this happens, sometimes this happens.”
Katie Simpson first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 17 February 2017
“That light that begins to die is so sad to watch. I think at 15, you can still live the dream a little bit, right? [Graduate and] be broke and go live in New York or wherever and try and be an artist — if you're in it for the right reasons.”
David Harbour (born 1975) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Erie Reader (September 12, 2018)
“This book on simple food is vegetarian, of course. It is the simplest, cleanest, easiest way to eat. I take it for granted that to live on plants and fruits, seeds and nuts is the way for rational, kindly and perceptive people to live.”
Helen Nearing (1904–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We can not predict who will develop the cancer. Cancer is a just disease – it affects everyone, regardless of whether we are poor or rich, where we live, how we live.”
Marek Sanak (born 1958) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mazurek, Maria (13 May 2016): Komórki rakowe to anarchizujące potwory. Gazeta Krakowska (in Polish), pp. 18–19.
“We live in a querulous age; more, we live in an age in which it is argued that to be happy is frivolous, and expecting to be happy positively childish.”
Bernard Levin (1928–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's no need to wait for the bad things and bullshit to be over. Change now. Love now. Live now. Don't wait for people to give you permission to live, because they won't. That permission is your birthright, hot stuff; grab it!”
“We do not just live in an English-speaking world. We live in an English-writing and English-reading world, an English thinking-world. If we write philosophy in Spanish or Portuguese (for example), our thoughts simply do not come into existence; they remain in a kind of limbo, not even as bad or trivial (this would show some kind of visibility), but as not existent at all.”
Julio Cabrera (born 1944) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why philosophy not written in English does not exist: hegemonic language as ontological policy. The case of South-American antinatalism, 2018, p. 1
“You live to realize your best self. You live to create something better than you.”
Radoslav Rochallyi (born 1980) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And now I think about it, I never really wanted to live forever. I just want to live well.”
Charles Sheffield (1935–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You had better all die -- die immediately, than live slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity. If you would be free in this generation, here is your only hope. However much you and all of us may desire it, there is not much hope of redemption without the shedding of blood. If you must bleed, let it all come at once rather die freemen, than live to be slaves.”
Henry Highland Garnet (1815–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Long live Mussolini! Long live socialism!”
Nicola Bombacci (1879–1945) first seen 1945 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 28 April 1945, during execution at Dongo, as quoted in Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism (2002) by Joshua Muravchik, p. 171
“I would think that everyone wants a place for their children to live, and to live peaceably, but why aren’t we included in — as human? You know, we’re still being excluded, and we’re still — it’s still there. Those same people that moved us are still there. The same people that signed off and drove us and forced us out of the South, into the — Tulsa, they’re still there.”
“Murals can do some amazing work in the world, because they live in the places where people live and work, because they can be made in relationship to the people who see them, because the people themselves can have input, if it’s done in a profound way. And that’s what I intend to keep doing as long as I’m standing here on earth.”
“I have my on and I have my off switch. I'm as exuberant and whatever else you want to call me; I'm very private. I usually go out to dinner here by myself, five o'clock. I love it. I mean, who could ever live up to that Betsey? I'm too much for myself to live up to. I'm very opposite, privately…”
Betsey Johnson (born 1942) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On how she differs from her public persona in “Betsey Johnson also has a low-key, private side: ‘I'm too much for myself to live up to’” in Salon (2020 Apr 10)
“Prepare your mind to live in the company of evil people, with your mind unsullied; to do this is to live like an angel.”
Guigo I (1083–1136) said by 1136 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Never refuse any who ask you for help; if your pockets are empty, give them hope. Your every action must be born of kindness, your every word spoken with love. Live as God would have you live, and others will be inspired to do the same.”
Immaculée Ilibagiza (born 1972) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Immaculee Ilibagiza, Our Lady of Kibeho: Mary Speaks to the World from the Heart of Africa. Goodreads (February 2006)
“I want to live in a world where we don't have such low expectations of disabled people that we are congratulated for getting out of bed and remembering our own names in the morning. I want to live in a world where we value genuine achievement for disabled people.”
Stella Young (1982–2014) said by 2014 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I feel in my heart that our Pharaoh has already been born. It may be that I shall not live to see Pharaoh's day but I want all those who now live in anguish to be comforted. For one day, due to the length of his roots and the depth of his wisdom, all nations shall dwell under his shadow.”
Bessie Head (1937–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My brother and I used to live in Rome,” she invented. “Rome.” The other woman turned up her nose a little. “Well, I suppose people have to live somewhere.”
Genevieve Cogman (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To live in a Western country is to live in a society still utterly saturated by Christian concepts and assumptions. This is no less true for Jews or Muslims than it is for Catholics or Protestants. Two thousand years on from the birth of Christ, it does not require a belief that he rose from the dead to be stamped by the formidable – indeed the inescapable – influence of Christianity.”
Tom Holland (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ward: A brother asked Abba Poemen, "How should I behave in the place where I live?" The old man said, "Have the mentality of an exile in the place where you live, do not desire to be listened to and you will have peace.”
Poemen (340–450) said by 450 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So take these broken wings and learn to fly again, learn to live so free And when we hear the voices sing the book of love will open up for us and let us in Take these broken wings You got to learn to fly again, got to learn to live so free And when we hear the voices sing the book of love will open up and let us in Yeah, yeah”
John Miles (1949–2021) first seen 1985 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Broken Wings" (song, 1985, by American pop rock band Mr. Mister)
“You live because you dance, you dance as long as you live.”
Rudolf Nureyev (1938–1993) said by 1993 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O admirable desert, how right it is for the holy monks to live or desire to live near you and within you, for you are rich and fertile in all the good things of him in whom all things are held.”
Eucherius of Lyon (380–449) said by 449 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I am a Rwandan; the central idea of our existence is not just our slogan. Rather, it is our irrevocable choice. We do not ask anyone for the right to live, and to live well. Ndi Umunyarwanda is the bond we share; it is the legacy we will leave to the younger generation,”
Jeannette Kagame (born 1962) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rwanda: 'Ndi Umunyarwanda' Is the Bond We Share, the Legacy We Leave, ' Says First Ladyallafrica ( November 8,2025)
“When faced with violence, we stand up against it. This is not the way, not the solution. So how do we live? We live with pain. Every day we have to encourage those brothers or sisters who say they are happy and that everything is fine. No it isn't! There are many forms of injustice and we must get involved. We cannot just remain on the side lines.”
Celestino Aós Braco (born 1945) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Attacks in Chile “a blow to the hearts of Catholics” (22 October 2020)
“Nobody wants to die, everybody wants to live, but the Russians want to rebuild a Russian empire and we don’t want to live in a Russian empire. The Russians try to put us on our knees, but we’re fighting right now for freedom and for the future of our children and our country.”
Vitali Klitschko (born 1971) first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko says he’s ready to give his life for Ukraine", New York Post, 18 March 2022
“people who move through the world without the privilege you have are uncomfortable, probably every minute of the day, but are actively choosing to be their liberated self. They make it possible for everyone else to live more honestly, even if that means we live more uncomfortably.”
Nikkita Oliver (born 1986) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love is all we leave when we are gone live on In every heart of those we touch In every dream that means so much Yes I believe that all of us live on.”
Olivia Newton-John (1948–2022) said by 2022 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want there to exist—respecting cultures—a single society. That both the k'ara and the Indian recognize each other as equals; enough of confrontation, enough of remembering the 500 years... There must be forgiveness between us... As long as we live in confrontation, it will be a second-class Bolivia, underdeveloped, and that is why my first pillar is to live among equals; it is the first thing.”
Rafael Quispe (born 1969) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Daniela Romero (7 February 2021) "Tata Quispe: 'Yo llego a la clase media y a los indios, es mi fortaleza'", Página Siete.
“[On a decision Freeman made in her 30s] I just thought: "I’m not going to be scared to say things anymore. I can see all [these things I want to talk about] in front of me. I don't live in Stalinist Russia, I don't live in Nazi Germany. I'm going to write about them... It's been interesting watching who tries to shut it down.”
Hadley Freeman (born 1978) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For a number of years I also believed that political bondage was the cause of many of the ills endured by those of my own sex; until I discovered that the man without a job was about as badly off as the woman without a ballot. In fact, a little worse, for we can live without voting but we cannot live without eating.”
Lena Morrow Lewis (1868–1950) said by 1950 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One, to turn around the collapsed economy and the reforms I implemented to achieve that, and secondly, that I [reduced] maternal mortality from 675 per 100,000 live births to 460 [per 100,000 live births] in 24 months.”
Joyce Banda (born 1950) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: BPR Interviews: Dr. Joyce BandaBrown Political Review(November 13, 2016)
“At last it was understood why if I come to your party, at 8pm I had to go home to bed and to take my pain killers; because when you live with endometriosis, you live with pain. I have a library in my home. It is a library about pain. I have so many books on pain cure”
Nike Oshinowo (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This work is not for yourselves. Kill that spirit of self and do not live above your people but live with them and if you can rise, bring someone with you.”
Charlotte Maxeke (1871–1939) said by 1939 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Aug 22, 2021
“I haven't fought the illness; it's still within me and will be forever. Hopefully, we'll find a miracle, a way to heal through scientific research, but I have to learn to live with it, I work on everything, from my toes to my knees, calves, fingers, singing, voice... It's the condition I have to learn to live with now, by stopping questioning myself.”
Celine Dion (born 1968) first seen 2024 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Céline Dion On Her Return to the Stage: 'I Know That Nothing Will Stop Me' Canada Billboard (April 22, 2024).
“For liposuction, my policy is live and let’s live. Whatever rocks your boat is fine. I am a very active person in sport hence I try to keep my body fit at all times. So, I don’t think I have need to consider liposuction for now, but I can’t speak for the future.”
Belinda Effah (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was a tough time, but I still tried to work with them because they also needed to live, and to live in peace.”
Godeliève Mukasarasi (born 1959) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rwandan wins human-rights award. Theglobeandmail. (November 2004)
“A man over forty is in his prime. When can one live if not now? When does one know how to live if not in these years? It's not with twenty, but with forty that one comes into one's true youth. In France they understand these things.”
Anna Margolin (1887–1952) first seen 1909 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In France" published in 1909 in the New York newspaper Di Fraye arbeter shtime, translated from Yiddish by Daniel Kennedy