
Top 100 I Live Quotes
#2. Then "wrong" is right, and "right" is wrong! Yet I'll tell you this, to help you out of your dilemma: believe nothing I say. Simply live it. Experience it. Then live whatever other paradigm you want to construct. Afterward, look to your experience to find your truth.
Neale Donald Walsch
#3. Withdrawn into the peace of this desert, along with some books, few but wise, I live in conversation with the deceased, and listen to the dead with my eyes
Francisco De Quevedo
#4. I have now lost my barrier between me and death; God grant I may live to be as well prepared for it, as I confidently believe her to have been! If the way to Heaven be through piety, truth, justice and charity, she is there.
Jonathan Swift
#5. I think you'd have to literally live in a cave to not know anything about 'Twilight'. I've seen a few of the movies, but I haven't read the books.
Jake Abel
#6. It seemed impossible that a scrappy book like 'Goon Squad' could win an award like that. It's such an iconic honor. I think what the Pulitzer means to me is that I'll need to work very, very hard to try to live up to it.
Jennifer Egan
#8. It's not realistic to live in the country at this stage. I've got a business in London. I beat myself up about it all the time.
Stella McCartney
#10. I think that one of the biggest flaws of
mankind is that we become complacent with our lives.
Daniel Willey
#11. Facing that was my ultimate fear and my biggest freedom. I was alone. I was tiny. I was no one. Live or die, the world wouldn't know or care.
Pepper Winters
#12. I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.
David Duchovny
#13. I love my daughter, but she had me on couscous and fixed me pastas and made me eat oatmeal every morning and what else, turkey burgers, turkey bacon, and that kind of stuff. So she wants her dad to live a long time, and I do, too.
Dusty Baker
#14. I love New York City. I love that I get to live there and I love everything about it.
Mike Myers
#15. I just want to live till I Die. I want to open my wings and fly. - RVM.
R.v.m.
#16. I don't really have that much contact with Americans. I mean, I see the oddest things on the Internet, I suppose. And I've got a couple of American friends, but they are Anglophiles anyway because they've decided to come live here.
Robert Webb
#17. I think I can relate to this guy [Psycho Sam] that ended up ... This desire to go off the grid and live on his own and didn't trust anyone or anything and I guess the thing that saved him in my head was that he had a great sense of humor.
Rhys Darby
#18. I enjoy theatre tremendously, and there's nothing like a live performance.
Melanie Rawn
#19. I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
Carine Roitfeld
#20. The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.
Chuck Yeager
#21. To live in this world, I realized, is to leave pieces of your heart in various places; and to move toward any place is to move away from another.
Frederic S. Durbin
#22. I guess this is gonna sound kind of weird, but I'm not scared for myself for dying. Because I believe all these places are temporary. This is just one shell. Because we Hawaiians live in both worlds.
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
#23. I knew I must not join him, but how could I tell that to the one who taught me how to live?
Stephen Smith
#24. Don't you dare hide behind your illness!"
"You were the one who just said I couldn't help it!"
"You can't help being ill, but you can help what you do about it," Eithne says sharply.
Tess Stimson
#25. Growing up around Amish farmland, I enjoyed the opportunity to witness firsthand their love of family, of the domestic arts - sewing, quilting, cooking, baking - as well as seeing them live out their tradition of faith in such a unique way.
Beverly Lewis
#26. I wonder what it's like to live in Tinaville. I get the feeling it's very shiny there.
Meg Cabot
#27. I've diagnosed myself and discovered I have a limited 'life span' you can do this to. Then live life to its fullest in everything you do!
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#29. I know what it means to go to the stream to fetch water ... what it means when people are poor and don't have enough to eat. It's not enough to say you know about poverty. You have to live it.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
#30. If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not substantiate it, neither did I ask any lawyer, judge, or magistrate for them. I live above the law, and so do this people.
Brigham Young
#32. Never let anyone tell you your dreams are not the most important thing, because they are. I am trying to live my dream, so should you! I think anything is possible, if we believe it can be. Keep dreaming dreamer.
Jennifer Lamonica
#33. I don't wanna live on in my work. I wanna live on in my apartment.
Woody Allen
#34. All I do is work, so I eat to live and to keep going.
Miley Cyrus
#35. You will live as you live anywhere. With difficulty, and grief. Yes, you are dead. And I and my family and everyone, always, forever. All dead, like stones. But what does it matter? You still have to go to work in the morning. You still have to live.
Catherynne M Valente
#36. Now is now, and I live everything one day at a time. The fact that I'm still on the planet and able to still make music is such a miracle.
Ronnie Milsap
#37. I was dying. Like all the other people who live in this world.
Haruki Murakami
#38. I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people participate.
Stephen Chbosky
#39. Yeah, I love living in New York, man, and people who live in New York, we wear that fact like a badge right on our sleeve because we know that fact impresses everybody! I was in Vietnam. So what? I live in New York!
Denis Leary
#40. Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.
Pope Paul VI
#41. The way I look at it, I'm a guy who acts to live.
Dean Norris
#42. It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#43. I think we are just insects, we live a bit and then die and that's the lot. There's no mercy in things. There's not even a Great Beyond. There's nothing.
John Fowles
#44. The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that was how I survived. I had to find a safe place to go in my mind where there was no violence being done to my body and where I could reflect on the life I had lived and the life that I still wanted to live.
Amanda Lindhout
#45. I am fairly tired
bored beyond endurance
by the world we live in, and its ideals, and am ready to say so, not violently, but kindly, as one rubs salt into the back of a flogged sailor as though one loved him.
Henry Adams
#47. But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.
Tobias Wolff
#48. One personal tip that my trainer gave me was, "Don't take things personally. People are calling on the worst days of their lives and you're their first point of contact. Be like a duck and let the water roll off your back." I live by those words when I'm at work.
Cameron West
#49. You owe it to yourself to live beautifully. And I am.
Jill Scott
#50. And in fact the only way I can deal with this eerie situation at all is to make a conscious decision that I have already lived and finished the life I planned to live - and everything from now on will be A New Life, a different thing, a gig that ends tonight and starts tomorrow morning.
Hunter S. Thompson
#51. I love touring, I love doing the live show and it's just like a musical artist, you just keep coming up with material and as long as you're coming up with the material and as long as audiences like it, you just keep doing it, it's your job.
Jeff Dunham
#53. I love Michigan, to be honest. I don't think I'd live nowhere else. It's cheap! This is Detroit. A little bit of nothing gets you a lot of something.
Danny Brown
#54. If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.
Erma Bombeck
#55. My wife bought me a vintage Gibson guitar that isn't just beautiful but has tremendous sentimental value. I have plenty of guitars for live gigs but this is one to treasure.
Bill Bailey
#56. I wanted to be on 'Saturday Night Live' since I was ten.
Olivia Wilde
#57. I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other.
David Duchovny
#58. I'm more preoccupied with furnishing my head than the place where I live. The most beautiful rooms I have entered have been empty ones.
Yann Martel
#59. I don't like expeditions where it is a total lottery whether you live or die. You have to keep those sort of good luck cards for rare occasions!
Bear Grylls
#60. I think in rural settings, people have a different appreciation for animals than might the city dweller. In parts of India where poisonous snake bite is common, people have a much different value system. I live in a city. I'm not thinking about wolves, lions, etc.
Henry Rollins
#61. Reality, my strange and precious one. Reality is fabric. Fabric is
reality. And your reality here is far easier to live with than where I
was on the other side. So that's why I don't want to go back, and
why you wouldn't like it.
Esme Ellis
#62. I close my eyes and ride the mindless bliss. It's all I can do. Be. Feel. Live.
I'm Pri-ya again.
I always will be with this man.
Karen Marie Moning
#63. While I live, no rich or noble knave shall walk the world in credit to his grave.
Alexander Pope
#64. I myself hope to live long enough to graduate from being a 'bad boy,' which I once was, to becoming a curmudgeon....
Christopher Hitchens
#65. I think you're an improvement on my imagination," I said, flipping back through the pages.
"You, too," he said. "My imagination - well, what little imagination I have - doesn't quite live up to the real thing."
"Agreed," I said. "The real thing is much better.
Francesca Zappia
#66. I really do fear that I'm dying I really do fear that I'm dead I saw it in your eyes what I'm looking for I saw it in your eyes what will make me live.
Rufus Wainwright
#67. One of the best things Dr. G. told me was that I didn't have to judge every new situation I encountered. Living alone, for example. She said I didn't have to say that living alone was good or bad, I could just live alone and not make a judgement on it.
Natalie Taylor
#68. I learned my lesson that in the live-action world, you have to earn the support of people over a very, very long time. And in animation, I already have the support.
Henry Selick
#69. I don't like to be overexposed. Too many articles, too many tweets, too many posts, I just don't like that. But at the same time, we live in a culture where that's almost necessary. People want content and they want their stuff when they want it.
Issa Rae
#70. Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.
Denis Waitley
#71. That's a really good question - what is it like living with a writer? I guess it depends on the writer. You know what? They live in a fantasy world a lot of the time. My husband lives in a fantasy world.
Rene Russo
#72. Lie down there in the shade and sleep, and I will soon build the castle for you. If it would be a pleasure to you, you can live in it yourself.
Jacob Grimm
#73. What I find relatively funny is that I'm not a model. I'm five foot six and a half; I have absolutely no dream or desire to be a model, I don't live for fashion. But when an opportunity comes your way very early in your career, like Burberry, you do it.
Sophie Kennedy Clark
#74. Well, I live a double life. Tonight, I'll escort you to dinner. Then I have to rush home and finish my calculus homework.'
'You're not joking, are you?'
'I never joke about calculus homework.
Rick Riordan
#75. All the difference in the world between the movies and the thrill I get out of a play at the theater. Ay, yes! Like fooling around with paper dolls when you could be playing with a real live baby.
Edna Ferber
#76. There are a million things out there that can kill you, and about half of them are invisible. If you're going to stick your body parts into them just to see what will happen, even after I've warned you about them, then you won't live long, and you certainly can't work on my ship.
J.Z. Colby
#77. I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I suppose.
Jarvis Cocker
#78. I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.
Samuel Johnson
#79. Jews read the books of Moses not just as history but as divine command. The question to which they are an answer is not, 'What happened?' but rather, 'How then shall I live?' And it's only with the exodus that the life of the commands really begins.
Jonathan Sacks
#80. Performing live actually thrills me. Just get me a stage, get me a mic, and I'm going to be happy.
Rita Wilson
#81. U2 was involved in Live Aid, and I ended up going to Ethiopia and working there for some time with my wife, Ali.
Bono
#83. You needn't consult me about redecorating. I know no female can live two days in a house and leave anything as it was. I shall be much astonished if I can find my way about when I return.
Loretta Chase
#84. I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.
Steven Wright
#86. I don't consider myself a moral man. I do not philosophize about life or bother with laws and principles that govern most people. I do not pretend to know the difference between right and wrong. But I do live by a certain kind of code. And somethimes, I think, you have how to shoot first.
Tahereh Mafi
#87. You know how a lot of people say they could go crazy? Well, I feel I live very close to that line.
Hope Davis
#88. At first, I didn't like coming down to Los Angeles at all. It's like, everything's black and white compared to where I live out in the middle of nowhere. There's, like, 400 people in my town!
Max Thieriot
#89. I visited many places,
Some of them quite
Exotic and far away,
But I always returned to myself.
Dejan Stojanovic
#90. I always really liked magicians. I'm not even sure why - except that they know things other people don't, and they live in untidy rooms full of strange objects.
Susanna Clarke
#91. It was a brilliant idea: You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing. It
Richard Feynman
#92. I live in my dreams - that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.
Hermann Hesse
#93. I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.
Salman Rushdie
#94. I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over
I just wanna live simple and free.
Christina Aguilera
#95. The Way I See It: If you're worried about getting a job-or keeping one-start a company of your own. By doing so, you'll reap the rewards of your hard work and you'll only get fired if you fail. This is the land of opportunity. Live in it.
Bruce Campbell
#96. If I have a dry spell ... I wait and live harder, eyes, ears, and heart open, and when the productive time comes, it is that much richer.
Sylvia Plath
#97. And may you live to see it,' said Fermin, as he signalled to the siren from Calle Escudillers to start displaying her wares.
I saw her caress the old man with infinite delicacy,
kissing the tears that fell down his cheeks.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#98. I'm a European, and I live there. I work in European films, and then once in a while, I make an American movie.
Monica Bellucci
#99. I love green. Green is the color of nature, trees. I'm a tree freak. I spend a lot of my time planting trees, nurturing them, and studying them. It's one of the colors I couldn't live without.
John Boorman
#100. I'm married to an American, and although we live in Europe, I think of myself as an honorary American.
Laurie Graham
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