Livable Quotes

#1. It is nothing short of baffling to me how a city like Melbourne, where I struggle to find accessible facilities on a very regular basis, could be considered the most livable city in the world. I suppose it all depends on what makes a city 'livable' for you.

Stella Young

#2. What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

#3. If you design communities for automobiles, you get more automobiles. If you design them for people, you get walkable, livable communities.

Parris Glendening

#4. Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.

Toni Morrison

#5. You and I shouldn't claim we love Oregon more than anyone else, but that we love Oregon as much as anyone. Our thoughts today, and our deliberations to come, must spring from our determination to keep Oregon lovable and to make it even more livable.

Tom McCall

#6. The results of a new study are out this week saying that New Jersey is one of the most livable states in the country. The study has a margin of error of 100 percent.

Conan O'Brien

#7. What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.

Edward Abbey

#8. More than its utilitarian and technocratic transparency, it is the opaque ambivalence of its oddities that makes the city livable.

Michel De Certeau

#9. For most Americans, their primary aspiration is to achieve a better life ... to earn a livable wage in a good job. To have the time to spend with family and do the things they enjoy. To be able to retire with security. And to give their own kids a chance to do as well or better than themselves.

Marco Rubio

#10. Nothing destroys a livable life more completely than unfounded hope

Yiyun Li

#11. Yes, liquor is the thin white coat of paint you wash over the cracks in your foundation. Makes any rotten house livable for a few hours. Sometimes days.

Toby Barlow

#12. Oh courage ... oh yes! If only one had that ... Then life might be livable, in spite of everything.

Henrik Ibsen

#13. Revolutions are usually started by people who are hungry. Sure, there are ideological revolutions, but, again, people rise up because they feel that the alternative is no longer livable. They have to be desperate.

Julianna Baggott

#14. Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.

Gavin Newsom

#15. The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war.

Richard M. Nixon

#16. A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy.

Ted Kulongoski

#17. Future generations, if there is a livable world for them,
will look back at the epochal transition we are making to a life-sustaining society.
And they may well call this
the time of the Great Turning.

Joanna Macy

#18. The Bible, all of it, is livable; it is the text for living our lives. It reveals a God-created, God-ordered, God-blessed world in which we find ourselves at home and whole.

Eugene H. Peterson

#19. A philosophy must be livable; it can't just be ideas.

Marty Rubin

#20. I'd been trained in the art of psychotherapy, the excavation of the past as a means of untangling the present and rendering it livable. It's detective work, of sorts, crouching stealthily in the blind alleys of the unconscious. (179)

Jonathan Kellerman

#21. I think it's a great handicap to be discovered at an early age. I didn't have that burden of early success. I had the much more livable and durable career where success comes late, and comes slowly, and you ease into it. So by the time it comes, you're ready to deal with it.

Philip Glass

#22. Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

Havelock Ellis

#23. America is ready for livable communities. America is ready for high-speed rail.

Greg Abbott

#24. It's not how long you live, but how you live that's important. Therefore, don't make your life just livable, make it memorable.

Tony Robbins

#25. We only have X amount of days and time on this planet - how am I going to spend that time? The way that I want to spend it is caring about the people that I love the most, and fighting to make the world a more livable place for everybody.

Michael Franti

#26. The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#27. Circumstances would always exist in the human's success story, but it is not controlled by destiny. Destiny is controlled by "FATE." I think it might be the optimist in me, but in America, "Dreams" are livable.

Henry Johnson Jr

#28. If things are better for women there, it is due to a profound and enduring social consensus that life should be made livable based on who they are and not on an abstract moralistic notion of how they ought to be.

Judith Warner

#29. The society of life on Mars, or the challenge of making Mars more livable, will have significant benefits on our attempts to modify and change in some ways the environment here on Earth.

Buzz Aldrin

#30. I am not proposing that we bring our oil and auto industries to a screeching halt. There is still time to begin a series of gradual steps toward new transportation and energy policies, livable cities, and more humane, efficient transit systems.

Stewart Udall

#31. While there is no cure, cystic fibrosis is so close to being a livable disease. There is a lot of hope.

Max Carver

#32. Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable ...

Rajneesh

#33. Women on trains
have a life
that is exactly livable
the precision of days flashing past

Audre Lorde

#34. My dream is remaking and reforming a more sustainable, more livable, delicious future.

Kate Orff

#35. I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable.

Viktor E. Frankl

#36. We all need the living green or we'll shrivel up inside. To make the modern city livable is the task of our times.

Jens Jensen

#37. We tell stories with maps about global warming, biodiversity; we can design more livable cities, track the spread of epidemics. That makes a difference.

Jack Dangermond

#38. We all live within our belief solar systems; it's how we make it through each day. What feels "real" and "true" is based on it. Internal consistency and function means that a belief solar system is simply livable, but it says nothing about its veracity.

Daniel Ionson

#39. I do not believe in religion, but if I had to choose one, it would be Buddhism. It seems more livable, closer to men.

Bjork

#40. Life at its best is a series of misadventures with a few sound decisions thrown in just to make it livable.

Sebastian Di Mattia

#41. I'm really not livable with when I'm rehearsing because I'm living the character.

Donald Sinden

#42. Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.

Mahatma Gandhi

#43. Besides infrastructure, there is a huge opportunity in housing and urbanisation of cities - not only building new ones, but also renewing the infrastructure of old cities to make them more livable. This provides tremendous scope for large investments to fuel growth.

Jamshyd Godrej

#44. We do not know the future, but we are creating it now. How we align the vision we have for a livable place with intelligent actions is what the future of mankind will be. It is all we can do to perfect ourselves. Nature will determine the rest.

Helen Drayton

#45. I see the invisible spirits, where demons still find it livable. I need a hug to hold my soul inside my body.

Lisa Lopes

#46. As it so happens, I like your mouth."
"It doesn't
"
"Challenge me?" He set the bottle down and moved to the end of the bed. "An outspoken woman makes the world a livable place. You have fire in you, and I would never put that out.

Dannika Dark

#47. The most empowering thing you can do though is to create innovative ways to bring in livable wages. That begins with a debt free lifestyle.

Brandi L. Bates

#48. There is the GIS world that is largely managing authoritative data sources, supporting geocentric workflows like fixing roads, making cities more livable through better planning, environmental management, forest management, drilling in the right location for oil, managing assets and utilities.

Jack Dangermond

#49. The Italians have long known what makes a livable town or city.

Norman Foster

#50. Along with a livable wage, many parents are desperate for quality affordable child care.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#51. People jeopardize their lives for the sake of making the moment livable. Nothing sways them from the habit - not illness, not the sacrifice of love and relationship, not the loss of all earthly goods, not the crushing of their dignity, not the fear of dying. The drive is that relentless.

Gabor Mate

#52. Any soldier returning home must rediscover his humanity and establish a livable peace with the discovered, liberated, permanently dark places in his own heart
the darkness that is always with us.

Larry Heinemann

#53. We must develop a federal program of public works, retraining, and jobs for all - so that none, white or black, will have cause to feel threatened
... There is nothing except shortsightedness to prevent us from guaranteeing an annual minimum and livable income for every American family.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#54. Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.

Tom Scholz

#55. Building a livable world isn't rocket science; it's far more complex than that." - Ed Ayres

Naomi Klein

#56. Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.

Jack Dangermond

#57. Earth Day should encourage us to reflect on what we are doing to make our planet a more sustainable and livable place.

Scott Peters

#58. Sunday morning,I empty of my little tricks to make life livable.

Jack Kerouac

#59. Once we realize that the boundaries between work and play are artificial, we can take matters in hand and begin the difficult task of making life more livable.

Daniel H. Pink

#60. So-called global warming is just a secret ploy by wacko tree-huggers to make America energy-independent, clean our air & water, improve fuel-efficiency of our vehicles, kickstart 21st century industries, & make our cities safer & more livable. Don't let them get away with it!

Chip Giller