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“You would be better off, frankly, to use the name of Jesus Christ or God in an occasional curse word than to live an ongoing, hypocritical life that blasphemes His name from beginning to end.”
John F. MacArthur (1939–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God’s grace means.”
Brennan Manning (1934–2013) said by 2013 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Once you were committed to a course of action, you didn’t waste your time looking back and second-guessing the decision, because every action in life was taken on the basis of incomplete information. You looked at what you had, and you did all you could to improve the odds; but at some point you had to roll the dice—and live or die with whatever you had thrown.”
Charles Sheffield (1935–2002) said by 2002 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As far as possible i stay away from sadness, I seek to live felicity and happily because life is short, and does not deserve to grieve or regret something.”
Pascale Machaalani (born 1969) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: lahamag.com,8 August 2019
“Wild animals" merely strangers to us—beings who live apart from and independent of us. They suffer and enjoy the same as we do. They have their own ends and justifications of life.”
J. Howard Moore (1862–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Art is nothing abstract, theoretical. We cannot detach it or set it apart. Art must live, and I want to be the intermediary of life.”
Lubo Kristek (born 1943) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quote in an interview by Sven Mueller, published in 'Das kunstvolle Leben des Bildhauers: Lubo Kristek', Collage: Zeitschrift für Literatur und Grafik 3, p. 33. Translated in Kristek Thaya Glyptotheque, Barbora Putova; …
“...you shouldn't stay trapped in the past or be frightened of the future. You only have one life, but if you live it well, that’s enough. The only reality is now, today. What are you waiting for to be happy? Every day counts, I can tell you!" (p193)”
Isabel Allende (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When I write, I fly to another dimension. Like Eva Luna, I try to live life as I would like it to be, as in a novel. I am always half flying, like Marc Chagall's violinists.”
Isabel Allende (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There's tons of books out there about writers who suffer insecurities, who suffer all kinds of other ailments. To live in your head for a long time is a difficult thing, especially in terms of novelists, where you have this whole blueprint of this world in your head. I feel like, because I'm so much in my head, I forget that I have a real life, you know? That's a major challenge…”
Helena Maria Viramontes (born 1954) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On one of the challenges of being a writer in “Fiction and Social Justice: Interview with novelist Helena María Viramontes” (Gonzaga University; 2019)
“Every woman should be free to live the life she chooses.”
Buchi Emecheta (1944–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The more I think about it, the more I realize that we, women, set impossible models for ourselves. That we make life intolerable for each other. I can't live up to our role models, older wife. That’s why I need to create my own.”
Buchi Emecheta (1944–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Earth is our Mother. From her we get our life, and our ability to live. It is our responsibility to care for our Mother, and in caring for our Mother, we care for ourselves.”
Winona LaDuke (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“i hope my shoulder finds a head that needs nestling ...i hope i die warmed by the life that i tried to live”
Nikki Giovanni (1943–2024) said by 2024 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle ... I'm going with B, everything.”
Amy Krouse Rosenthal (1965–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Look, I can't speak for all trans women, but I just want to live my life the way I always imagined it. I have become the version of myself I wanted to be when I was four.”
Juno Dawson (born 1981) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'm going to live a first- the first time I talk openly about my life.”
Adam Silvera (born 1990) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“…The base of every good play is an unanswerable question. It’d be very pompous of me to say “I have the answer.” But they are a driving questions for me, and how I live my life and I look at the world.”
Karen Zacarias (born 1969) first seen 2015 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On what she considers a good play in “DC playwright Karen Zacarías: How to write plays, raise kids and avoid the creative ‘desert’” (2015 Apr 16)
“It is a fallacy to hold That Life’s patrician is the prime, And outcast tribe the sterile old, Who live for death to bide their time.”
Gopi Krishna (yogi) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m still learning, I’m still finding stuff that fascinates me. I’m still putting people out front who I call the “unsung” — those who once had places in history and made a difference, but who have now been forgotten. Because, you know, you bring them back to life [when you write about them], and they live again.”
Beverly Jenkins (born 1951) first seen 2017 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On writing about unsung figures in “Romance Novelist Beverly Jenkins Talks Normalizing Diversity in Her Genre” in Shondaland (2017 Oct 12)
“A lot of people have had a brush with what it’s like to live a disabled life these last two years, and a lot of them want to forget it as quickly as possible. They’d rather expose themselves to all kinds of harm than continue to be disabled like us — mask, discuss risk, stay home, pass public policies for the safety of all.”
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To be a scientist is to learn to live all one's life with questions that will never be answered, with the knowledge that one was too early or too late, with the anguish of not having been able to guess at the solution that, once presented, seems so obvious that one can only curse oneself for not seeing what one ought to have, if only one had looked in a slightly different direction.”
Hanya Yanagihara (born 1974) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Live life like you're writing your own obituary.”
Ron English (born 1959) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You have all these choices at the supermarket and then you go to government, which is far more important than what brand of soda you drink, and you're told it's got to be Boris Johnson or Jeremy Corbyn. To hell with that! I want my views and I want to live my life and you setting up this false alternative is completely unacceptable. I'm not playing this game.”
Michael Malice (born 1976) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Friendly Chat with Michael Malice" (at 37m29s), Sargon of Akkad on YouTube, 22 June 2021.
“Any acknowledgment of the existence of the Second Body immediately demands the question mankind has pondered since the day he learned to think: Do we live on? Is there life beyond the grave? Our religions say believe, have faith. This is not quite enough for the syllogistic thinker who seeks valid premises that are clear-cut, leading to an inescapable conclusion.”
Robert Monroe (1915–1995) said by 1995 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He who wants to live the supernatural life clings to the Mother of Divine Grace. He who wants to convert and sanctify himself must have recourse to the Mother of God, for she is the Mediatrix of all graces. This mystery, that we receive everything through the Immaculata, is still little known. That is why we must propagate it; more, we must conquer the whole world to the Immaculata.”
Maximilian Kolbe (1894–1941) said by 1941 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’ve never been one to fit into a box. I’ve never been normal. I think that this is part of the reason why I love this life that I live, and that I am an actor, and I am a chameleon, because I am okay with the not knowing sometimes, and I’m okay with the questioning and I’m okay with being different”
Katherine McNamara (born 1995) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview: Arrow’s Katherine McNamara (November 30, 2018)
“You will never understand freedom. You and your son will never understand true freedom. You think freedom is the throne of the world, where no one can alter your words, and no one can tell you what to do, and men live or die by the slight twitch of your eyebrow. That isn’t freedom. That is a life of fear.”
J. M. McDermott (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This book is about a clash of absolutes, life against liberty. No right is more basic than the right to live. ...If infanticide is wrong, is the destruction of a fetus at eight months of , or at five, any different?”
Laurence Tribe (born 1941) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He who spends life in remoteness is much better, for it was the practice of the foremost saintly people. They liked to live comely instead of grandeur.”
Sufyan al-Thawri (716–784) said by 784 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Live as one family with love; then, there will not be any suffering in life.”
Dada Bhagwan (1908–1988) said by 1988 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I don’t care about people. I don’t care about anything, not even the white man. I want to feel what it is like to live in a free country and then maybe some of the evils in my life will correct themselves.”
Bessie Head (1937–1986) said by 1986 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I’m just one of those guys you know. I lived in England for eight years, I lived in America and I live in Canada. It’s sort of Canadian syndrome. There’s a whole bunch of British actors like that too, where you go, "I think I know that guy, I’ve seen him a million times but I have no idea what his name is." It’s that kind of thing, I don’t know if that will ever change but that is what my life is.”
Daniel Kash (born 1959) first seen 2013 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview: Daniel Kash Talks Mama, Aliens and Defiance (June 14, 2013)
“I definitely like myself more as I grow older, and there’s no way I would want to return to my younger days of people pleasing and uncertainty. But the journey doesn’t end here. I wish to be more courageous, to have the courage to live life more fully, stand up for what I believe in and fight for who I’ll eventually fall in love with.”
Rebecca Lim (born 1986) first seen 2019 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in "Rebecca Lim Opens Up About Being An Introvert Who Feels Lonelier In Big Groups" in Her World (10 June 2019)
“We have to change the situation. Everybody is closing his country against the neighbor. We have to open these frontiers to each other and live in one community, one fraternity of people. This is the meaning of Christian life, this the meaning of our religion.”
Samir Nassar (born 1950) first seen 2020 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Syria: Church perseveres in spite of war (20 February 2020)
“I maintain that rather than the sin of pride, the transhuman advocates—much like the transgender advocates—are more likely suffering from the effects of the sin of envy. They envy those—including the God of creation—who have the power to create life and live forever on this earth. But faithful Christians know that such a quest for power like this is more demonic than divine.”
Anne Hendershott (born 1949) first seen 2021 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From transgender to transhuman: The expanding culture of death (February 12, 2021)
“The internet itself is just a modern technology originally invented for US military information network. Yes, we cannot live without it anymore, It does amplify people's dark emotions, but if you can have a good happy real life with friends and family, you can realise there is just nothingness in the internet. There aren’t two worlds really, we should just use it as a useful tool.”
Hideo Nakata (born 1961) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: HIDEO NAKATA INTERVIEW (29 April 2011)
“Regardless of the problems in the family they can live a happy life. This is translated in mutual care in respect for each other.”
John Lee Keh-Mien (born 1958) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: John Baptist Lee, bishop of Hsinchu (24 May 2018)
“In North Korea, I lived as Kim Il-sung's robot. In South Korea, I got to live a new life.”
Kim Hyon-hui (born 1962) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: She killed 115 people before the last Korean Olympics. Now she wonders: ‘Can my sins be pardoned?’" in The Washington Post (25 February 2018)
“At the end of the day I was born alone, I’m going to die alone, I breathe alone. So I definitely have the right to how I want to live my life.” I’m a woman who makes her own choices (April 2019)”
Genevieve Nnaji (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“At the end of the day I was born alone, I’m going to die alone, I breathe alone. So I definitely have the right to how I want to live my life, and as a woman, the fact of the matter is no one needs to tell me otherwise.”
Genevieve Nnaji (born 1979) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“True success is about a passion to create a better world, live a life that you can look back on and be truly proud of.”
“If you can find a way to combine your passion for making a difference with your desire to live a life that you can be proud of, you will be well on your way to finding true success.”
“This is a massive problem with media platforms right now. YouTubers who know nothing about anything can misunderstand a bunch of articles and spread lies to millions of people. And then they get to vote how you live your life! I wonder why everything’s getting worse all the time!”
Hbomberguy (born 1992) first seen 2023 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Iilluminaughtii and the perils of lazy video essays 5 December 2023
“He who builds a house for himself takes great pains to make it commodious, airy, and handsome, and says: “I labour and give myself a great deal of trouble about this house, because I shall have to live in it all my life.” And yet how little is the house of eternity thought of!”
Alphonsus Liguori (1696–1787) said by 1787 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I pray for my children, for their success and not even just material success, success as human beings so that they may be solid, because in our world today somebody has to have the qualities and the skills to live a successful life. I also continue to pray for success in this job, to make a difference in the energy sector.”
Rebecca Miano (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“We are not second class citizens. We will no longer live life in an eternal state of apology for being women.”
Mmakgosi Anita Tau (born 1989) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I believe all free thinkers, all artists and writers, should be independent from the mainstream so they won’t take the value system or moral standards of the mainstream for granted. They should take it as their duty to question and doubt the way of life and way of thinking of the majority. I am glad to live overseas as a Chinese writer, to remain independent and critical of both sides.”
Geling Yan (born 1958) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: What War Does to Human Hearts: Interview with Geling Yan" (30 April 2016)
“I use the scale of preference. I live my life based on what is more important and that’s how I follow it.”
Mercy Johnson (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In order to write about life first you must live it.”
Ayra Starr (born 2002) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As it was in the beginning it will be until the end. Your money buys you people but it will not buy you friends. Your life is an illusion so live it day by day. Just draw your own conclusion It's gonna happen anyway”
John Miles (1949–2021) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: John Miles, "You Have It All" (1976 performance. 27 March 1976. On YouTube.)