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“Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbour, Seeking help from none; Life is mostly froth and bubble; Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.”
Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833–1870) said by 1870 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Variant: Many quoters, including Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919), have "in our own" instead of "in your own".
“The life expectancy in Hong Kong is among the highest in the world … you can come to only one conclusion: we have the most environmentally friendly place for people, for executives, for Hong Kong people to live”
Donald Tsang (born 1944) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Statement during a Business for Clear Air conference, as quoted in "Tsang hit for 'naive' comments" by Mimi Lau in The Standard (28 November 2006)
“I try to really understand every aspect of the most high; for me, the most high is Allah... I live my life by Islam.”
Busta Rhymes (born 1972) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My name is Patrick, and I'm a biped carbon-based life form. In my spare time I enjoy walking upright and being warm-blooded, and I'm a Scorpio.* I live here … on planet Earth, a piece of rock orbiting a giant fireball in the middle of nowhere. I feel I belong here.”
Pat Condell (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I admire anyone who's genuinely trying to achieve spiritual enlightenment and live a peaceful life. But religious dogma is a barrier to that. The last thing a dogmatist wants is for anyone to be enlightened, any more than a pharmaceutical company wants anybody cured.”
Pat Condell (born 1949) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Time Out London" (2006)
“One person I do feel a little sorry for, though, is the Archbishop of Canterbury, the most important clergyman in Britain and he's only got two lousy palaces to live in. What sort of life is that for a man of God? I bet if Jesus came back, even he'd be embarrassed for him; I bet he wouldn't be able to look him in the eye.”
Pat Condell (born 1949) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Religion in the UK" (17 April 2007)
“That dissociated selves were an everyday part of life in antiquity and the Middle Ages is a much-denied fact of historians, just as anthropologists deny that their subjects are dissociated personalities who live in an animistic world full of alters inhabiting animals, objects, and dead ancestors.”
Lloyd deMause (1931–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For me, life is about enjoying yourself because you only live once. We should try to make the most of things and follow our dreams.”
Heidi Klum (born 1973) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted by New Weekly, ninemsn Australia, 19 April 2009
“Liberal values like tolerance and individual freedom are prized most intensely when they are denied: People who live in brutal dictatorships want the simple freedom to speak, associate, and worship as they choose. But over time life in a liberal society comes to be taken for granted and its sense of shared community seems thin.”
Francis Fukuyama (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I decided a long time ago I didn’t want to be a star personality and live my life out in public. I don’t think it’s a good idea to wave personality about like a flag and become labeled.”
Paul Scofield (1922–2008) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Benedict Nightingale, "Paul Scofield, British Actor, Dies at 86", The New York Times (21 March 2008)
“You had to form for yourself a lucid language for the world, to overcome the battering of experience, to replace everyday life’s pain and harshness and wretched dreariness with — no not with certainty but with an ignorance you could live with. Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial.”
Gregory Benford (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Behold, we live through all things,—famine, thirst, Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery, All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst On soul and body,—but we can not die. Though we be sick, and tired, and faint, and worn,— Lo, all things can be borne!”
Elizabeth Chase Allen (1832–1911) said by 1911 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with nostalgia for the other ninety nine. p51”
Fernando Sabino (1923–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose: I was chosen to be a dancer, and, with that, you live all your life.”
Martha Graham (1894–1991) said by 1991 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For a moment, sitting there in above the city, I imagined life outside narcissism. I wondered how beautiful it might be to think of others as more important than myself. I wondered at how peaceful it might be not to be pestered by that childish voice that wants for pleasures and attention. I wondered what it would be like not to live in a house of mirrors, everywhere I go being reminded of myself.”
Don Miller (author) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you live your life and don't confess your sins to God Almighty through the authority of Christ and His blood—I'm going to say this very plainly—you're going straight to hell with a nonstop ticket.”
John Hagee (born 1940) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thou must be true thyself, If thou the truth wouldst teach; Thy soul must overflow, if thou Another's soul would'st reach! It needs the overflow of heart To give the lips full speech.Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed; Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed; Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.”
Horatius Bonar (1808–1889) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Be True," from Hymns of Faith and Hope (1867)
“Take a close look at the part that "love" plays in your life. Make an inventory of love: people, things, ideas, experiences. Try to live your gratitude.”
Patch Adams (born 1945) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Those who live forever, who have no stake in the dance of death’s inevitable approach, can never understand the sanctity of life.”
Charles de Lint (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“While you live … you have a duty to life. … The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. … Otherwise they fade away.”
Charles de Lint (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Study your craft and know who you are and what's special about you. Find out what everyone does on a film set, ask questions and listen. Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.”
Paul Newman (1925–2008) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Craig Modderno, "Newman remains animated at 81," Reuters (12 June 2006)
“Until face to face with the enemy, who inexorably advanced well protected toward sure prey, they cried with the last spark of life, "Long Live Italy!”
Rodolfo Graziani (1882–1955) first seen 1940 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "Marshal Is Frank" - "New York Times" article, December 23, 1940
“Give me to live with Love alone And let the world go dine and dress; For Love hath lowly haunts... If life's a flower, I choose my own— 'T is "love in Idleness".”
Samuel Laman Blanchard (1804–1845) said by 1845 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dolce far Niente", Stanza 4, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The conception of life as constructive rather than antagonistic effort finds beautiful illustration in every approach that we make toward true civilization. You measure the quality and the value of the civilization of individuals or peoples, not by the houses which they live in or the clothes which they wear, but by the width and power of their sympathy.”
Charles Fletcher Dole (1845–1927) said by 1927 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Until we know that death is equal to life, we live in fear.”
Byron Katie (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'T is not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die.”
James Montgomery (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: James Montgomery
“You can’t even trade a single fart with the next guy. Each and every one of us has to live out his own life. Don’t waste time thinking about who’s most talented.”
Kodo Sawaki (1880–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Zen ni kike (To you) (Tokyo: Daihorinkaku, 1987)
“We shall all live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the egret perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.”
Chinua Achebe (1930–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To live in perpetual employment, is to travel rapidly through life. Tranquility lengthens our existence. (p. 136).”
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert (1647–1733) said by 1733 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.”
Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life by Elizabeth Partridge (1994)
“… stop pretending to be good, and realize that doing good will do you no good on Judgement Day. Instead, repent and trust the Saviour, and then live a good life - not to impress anyone or bribe God, but out of gratitude to Him for His mercy.”
Ray Comfort (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When we chant or say the General Confession we pray that hereafter we may live "a godly, righteous and sober life.” But I wonder sometimes if we are too sober. The impression made by the apostles was that they were drunk; intoxicated with God.”
Leslie Weatherhead (1893–1976) said by 1976 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If these gouaches [Bram van Velde recently made] live at all, it is because they are true, they derive from life. They are born of the unknown – and not of habit or know-how, or intention, or of some recipe.. ..there comes a time when serious work is no longer an effort. When demanding work of that kind no longer tires you.”
Bram van Velde (1895–1981) said by 1981 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognise your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.”
Muriel Spark (1918–2006) said by 2006 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can’t have life unless you live it.”
Marsden Hartley (1877–1943) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: letter to Adelaide Kuntz, November 6, 1935; as quoted in Marsden Hartley, by Gail R. Scott, Abbeville Publishers, Cross River Press, 1988, New York p. 169
“Does Michael Jackson or Archie Bunker or the president of General Motors need to know about quantum mechanics? Of course not. You can live a full life without that. But if you don’t believe that the universe is understandable, then it leads to the notion that one idea is just as good as another. And that’s horrible.”
Frank Wilczek (born 1951) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm gonna marry the night. I won't give up on my life. I'm a warrior queen, Live passionately tonight.I'm gonna marry the dark, Gonna make love to the stark. I'm a soldier to my own emptiness. I am a winner.”
“Live your life as if you are writing your Biography.”
Keshia Chante (born 1988) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Official Website (2009)
“Let Life Live.”
Keshia Chante (born 1988) first seen 2009 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As told to National Post on her life motto. (2009)
“We know that hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death. Life is just a place where we spend time between games.”
Fred Shero (1925–1990) said by 1990 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whatever work you undertake to do in your lifetime, it is very important that first you have a passion for it — you know, get excited about it — and second, that you have fun with it. That's important. Otherwise, you see, your work becomes nothing but an idle chore. Then, you hate the life you live.”
Julius Sumner Miller (1909–1987) first seen 1963 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Why Is It So?, episode 1 (1963), Australian ABC Television show
“Now if I seem to be afraid To live the life that I have made in song Well it's just that I've been losing so long.”
Jackson Browne (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The minister is to be a live man, a real man, a true man, a simple man, great in his love, great in his life, great in his work, great in his simplicity, great in his gentleness.”
John Hall (Presbyterian pastor) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We live in a three dimensional plane. Life is on the third planet from the sun not the second. Ain't nobody lying on a piece of paper looking at each other”
Eddie Griffin (born 1968) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You couldn’t live your life getting up and seeing the same things every day. You had to keep moving, otherwise people started to know who you were, and then they started to expect things from you. It was one step from there to being gobbled up.”
Brandon Sanderson (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A constructive work is an embodiment of freedom itself, and is unconsciously perceived, even by those who are consciously against it. The desire to live is the strongest universal emotion, it springs from the depths of our unconscious sensibility – and the desire to give life is our most potent, constructive, conscious expression of this intuition.”
Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In: 'Circle', 1937; as quoted in Voicing our visions, - Writings by women artists, ed. by Mara R. Witzling, Universe New York 1991, p. 279
“It is what you believe that translates in the life you live.”
T. B. Joshua (1963–2021) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the need to believe in your business - "TB Joshua Speaks On Beauty, Business" Nigeria Films (March 23 2015)
“I've prayed every night for the past 10 years. There's a lot more to thank God for now. My philosophy is 'live life to the fullest,' [and] I was saved for a reason. Maybe I'm going to help someone else. I don't question it. All I know is, I'm thankful I'm still here.”
Adam Goldstein (1973–2009) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: James Montgomery DJ AM Says He Was 'Saved For A Reason' In First Post-Crash Interview October. 15 2008. Retrieved August 30, 2009. (October 2008).
“Don't know what ya talkin' 'bout, I'll always have hoes by my side (Uh) Smokin' blunts, gettin' drunk, stayin' high 'til the very last day I die (Uh) And there's nothing like new pussy, so there's no worries 'bout wives (Yeah) And there ain't nobody out there gonna tell me how to live my life”
Eamon (singer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A world of life and mystery, a world of splendor and striving and wistful beauty. Yes, it was good to live, and even if he was now to join the sun in an endless night, he was glad of what he had been given.”
Poul Anderson (1926–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source