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“This most shameful situation is making a fierce intent to rid us of our social and city peace and tranquility. We need to make people aware of the dignity of every human person, his right to live and work in fraternal harmony and live together in an environment of respect and community stability.”
Benjamín Jiménez Hernández (1938–2020) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Church requests that the wave of violence and murder end, as it is “a grave threat to Mexico’s peace and reveals the breakdown of the social fabric” (15 May 2008) Fides News Agency
“The world must live, the world must live! We are only one species among billions. The gods don’t love us more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.”
Daniel Quinn (1935–2018) said by 2018 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Every citizen has — in his place of origin — to have the necessary means for subsistence, so that we don't need to be immigrating. Therefore, I appeal to the Mexican authorities that they will find means to help millions of Mexicans live and work here, so that they don’t have to be humiliated, seeking the means to live elsewhere.”
Renato Ascencio León (1939–2022) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Mexican, U.S. Bishops Join in Favor of Immigrants (15 May 2005) Zenit
“The world we live in has changed exponentially since the Legal Professions Act was passed 62 years ago, and there is an urgent need for its revision to reflect these changes and make the training of lawyers in Ghana more relevant and in tune with the world we live in today.”
Mary Chinery-Hesse (born 1938) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I live by certain guiding principles, the things I cannot do openly, I will not do in private. I live by the principle of selfless leadership, service and integrity.”
Oluwayemisi Oluremi Obilade (born 1958) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. Article by chimplyf, chimpreports (October 1, 2018)”
“You Christians are called upon to balance your quest for personal salvation with reverence for nature. Either you live for the common good of all, or you live for no good or God at all!”
Robert H. Meneilly (1925–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“what I'm writing about in each of these novels is the notion that these are people who look around at the society they live in or the culture they live in and say, "This isn't necessarily where I belong. I need to change my place in history and I need to change my place in this culture.”
Kathleen Alcalá (born 1954) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As a girl, you were always told you were not supposed to be able to live from football. Adults try to tell kids to choose the right way, but what they knew as normal when they were kids doesn’t necessarily mean it was normal when we grew up. It was a goal to prove them wrong, and eventually developed to: ‘I want to show that I can live from it.’”
Caroline Graham Hansen (born 1995) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The ideas around circular economy and so forth are a major philosophical change in that previously we have thought there is an outside to the environment that we live in, that there is always ‘somewhere else’ that we can put our waste. The truth is that there is only one environment, and we all have to live here. So anything that is ‘waste’ must be an input to some other process that is useful.”
Amanda McKenzie first seen 2022 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Amanda McKenzie – when passion ignites vision, TERRY ROBSON. WellBeing, September 28, 2022. Retrieved: November 21, 2023
“We live in a world where we can tell neither head nor tail. We live in a world that jeers at you and proffers insults, an incestuous world that robs you of hope.”
Véronique Tadjo (born 1955) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When you ride on faith, you’re able to live in that element of selflessness. You’re able to live in that moment of fearlessness. I don’t attribute any type of individual success to myself, but more so to God’s will to put me in places to allow things to flourish or opportunities to present themselves.”
Seun Adigun (born 1987) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Shanley Pierce, In the Fast Lane with Olympian Seun Adigun, Texas Medical Center, January 23, 2018.
“Because you live in two or three worlds doesn't mean you don't live in any of them.”
Ilan Stavans (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You learn to live with it. There are moments when it comes back and it floods you. You’re overwhelmed by it and you can’t function then there are moments where you can actually live.”
Ngozi Anyanwu first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ngozi on grief in 2017
“We all live at that intersection of art and technology. That’s where games live, in a really easy way to see.”
Gabrielle Zevin (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We’re here on Facebook Live panel. Do you know how important that is? Growing up, I didn’t have Facebook Live. I didn’t see the first lady of Nigeria or the first lady of the Congo or any of these first ladies because I didn’t know they existed, I didn’t know what they were doing,”
Grace Mahary (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Don't I have a right to live?" she said. "Can't a woman live even if she is a mother?" (book 5 chapter 5)”
Jo Sinclair (1913–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know what it is to live as an oppressed Iranian woman. Now that I live in freedom, it gives me the strength and power to struggle for the rights of Iranian women whose voices are muted.”
Darya Safai (born 1975) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Darya Safai: The Story Behind The Iranian Woman Forced To Take Down Her Banner At The Olympics" (2016)
“I truly want us to live in a world 50 or 100 years from now where people are jumping in their rockets like the Jetsons and there are families bouncing around on the moon with their kid in a spacesuit. … I also think if we are going to live in that world, we better conquer childhood cancer along the way.”
Jared Isaacman (born 1983) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "US billionaire buys SpaceX flight to orbit with 3 others" AP News (1 February 2021)
“Women who are married do not need a monthly wage to live, of course, as they live off their husband's salaries.”
Mounia Meslem (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As we commemorate CASSINGA day let us remember our Mothers, Fathers, Daughters and Sons who continue to water our freedom with the blood of their sacrifice. May the memory of CASSINGA always spur us on to pursue a future of peace and prosperity for all NAMIBIANS . Long live heroes and Heroines of CASSINGA. Long live the memory of our struggle.”
Margaret Mensah-Williams (born 1961) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man does not live by bread alone, but also by the Word of God." I want to put it another way: Man does not live only by the Word of God, but also by bread.”
Hendrikus Fernandez (1932–2014) first seen 1990 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Religious Leaders Should Multiply Bread, Not Religious Doctrines (10 June 1990) Union of Asian Catholic News
“. The power to regrow lost parts permits to survive and even to multiply after injury. Three planarians may live and flourish because one was cut into three pieces. All ns are aquatic. A considerable number live in fresh water and a few on moist soil. Most of them are marine.”
Ann Haven Morgan (1882–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“That, let us rail at women, scorn and flout 'em, We may live with, but cannot live without 'em.”
Frederick Reynolds (1764–1841) first seen 1797 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Will (1797), act 3
“So feminism means work to maintain a good family; live for your family; live for your husband; let your ideas match that of your husband; move beside your husband and be one in decision and in unison. Any other thing is not feminism.”
Ngozi Chuma-Udeh wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'll live tomorrow," 'tis not wise to say:'Twill be too late tomorrow—live today.”
Francis Fawkes (1720–1777) said by 1777 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Translation of Martial's Epigram i.15, in Fawkes' Sappho, Bion, Moschus, Musaeus (2nd ed., 1789), footnote on p. 101
“I want my closing statement to be one of love and a calling to [his] fellow Christians to end the death penalty. An eye for an eye was used as justification to the jury for seeking the death penalty. Why? Because we no longer live under the Old Testament law but now live under the New Testament. [...] We are now under God's grace and mercy.”
Brad Sigmon (1957–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's always such a buzz coming over me when I'm on a farm. A farm you have to live. But you can look at the city, you don't have to live it.”
Dricky Beukes (1918–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An inclusive South Africa means Freedom to live, it means a Country where I'm not seen differently. A safe country for all who live in it, where I get men who respect a Lesbian woman and not feel inferior because I married a woman not a man”
Nomsa Buthelezi (born 1982) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is because they kill the tiresome mice that people should not shoot, or trap, or allow the eggs to be taken, of hawks and owls. Owls, and the in particular, live almost entirely on mice and young rats, and when we kill a (the barn owl is the white owl which files about so silently over the fields) we are allowing hundreds of mice to live and thrive and eat our things.”
Frances Pitt (1888–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I begin to understand that a white woman of the South can live and write, but not of the dead heroes. She can live and write a new kind of honor, the daily, conscious actions of women in true rebellion. ("Rebellion")”
Minnie Bruce Pratt (1946–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To live in the heart of Christ, in the heart of the Trinity, one must live with Mary.”
Marthe Robin (1902–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I live and breathe sustainability. Whatever I do, it needs to live. I don’t like the word charity”
Susan Mboya (born 1965) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ah, but what about persons in our society who are not members of our ethnos? I shall not mince words. We are not responsible for members of such groups. This is our society. We live here, and we shall govern here. We thus strongly encourage others to go and live where their own ethnos-groups hold sway. We see no need for them in our land.”
M. A. R. Barker (1929–2012) said by 2012 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Plastics. We can't live with them, can't live without them… it's a tough relationship. That's the challenge HyaPak is taking on.”
Joseph Nguthiru first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twitter/X, May 17, 2025
“I live alone to work ... My friends are very few now, but more quality. Friends, family and works of art are the only reasons why I live.”
Rita Angus (1908–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As stated in NZ On Screen's "Lovely Rita," NZ On Screen 2007. NZ On Screen. Published: 2007.
“I, as other painters do, live to paint and paint to live.”
Rita Angus (1908–1970) said by 1970 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In Angus' letter to Gordon Brown. As stated in City Gallery Wellington's "Rita Angus: Live to Paint and Paint to Live," City Gallery Wellington 2001. City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi. Published: 2001.
“Being shown a well-walled city, and asked if it were not a fine thing; “For women,” he answered, “not men, to live in.” Thus Agis II, observing the high and strong walls of Corinth, asked, “What women live there?”
Agesilaus II (444–360 BC) said by 360 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I live in faith, do not live in fear.”
Toni Gonzaga (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I live one day at a time because you never know if you might be gone tomorrow. Don't! Because it's better to just enjoy each day that you have. Live in the moment and enjoy the present,”
Kim Chiu (born 1990) first seen 2025 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Metro Fascinating Women 2025: Actress, Host, and Entrepreneur Kim Chiu, Angela Nepomuceno 26 March 2025.
“Death for a cause unworthy of dying for, was called a "dog's death." "To rush into the thick of battle and to be slain in it," says a Prince of Mito, "is easy enough, and the merest churl is equal to the task; but," he continues, "it is true courage to live when it is right to live, and to die only when it is right to die.”
Nitobe Inazō (1862–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I can live as the boys live, and if God wishes the work to succeed, He will surely provide the means.”
John Christopher Drumgoole (1816–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It is no wonder that we, though distant, are present to each other and without having known each other we know each other, since we are members of a single body, we have a single head, we are inundated with a single grace, we live on a single bread, we walk on a single road, we live in the same house.”
Paulinus of Nola (354–431) said by 431 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In both productions, actors speaking directly to their (own) recorded bodies or the recorded bodies of others, whilst others were also performing live, activated a spatiotemporal entanglement of spaces, time(s), bodies, actors, film/live performance and imagery that destabilised established notions of theatrical absence and presence, whilst progressing the narrative content.”
Gopala Davies (born 1988) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It’s expensive to fly. You burn out. You fry the machine. You melt the engine. Every creature on earth has approximately two billion heartbeats to spend in a lifetime. You can spend them slowly, like a tortoise and live to be two hundred years old, or you can spend them fast, like a hummingbird, and live to be two years old.”
Brian Doyle (American writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Always remember that it is your honour and integrity that will live long in the memory several years after you have left this world. If you live right in this world, you would leave a good legacy for your family and future generations.”
Olivia Obeng Owusu first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Let's nurture well-balanced women for leadership - High Court Judge, Modern Ghana, 10 March 2015.
“When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.”
Joseph Addison (misattributed) first seen 1869 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: St. Ambrose, Si fueris Romæ, Romano vivito more as translated in Latin Proverbs and Quotations (1869) by Alfred Henderson; very commonly paraphrased as "When in Rome do as the Romans do".
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
Mahatma Gandhi (disputed) first seen 1175 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The aphorism "Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow" is variously attributed to Isidore of Seville (c. 560 – 636), in FPA Book of Quotations (1952) by Franklin Pierce Adams, to Edmund…
“Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.”
Michel de Montaigne (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I know we don't have any guarantee that we're gonna live tomorrow. That's why I live everyday as it was my last.”
Melanie Thornton (attributed) first seen 2001 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: One of her last interviews before her death in a plane crash on November 24, 2001.