Top 100 Want To Live Quotes
#1. I don't want to stockpile tuna fish and bullets. That's not the world I want to live in.
Richard Martin
#2. I want to live in a city where the people who make the rules have to live by them.
Martin Firrell
#3. I want to live so fully in the Spirit that ... every act of my life may be an act of worship.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#5. I've never been passionate about acting, and I find more and more that I work to live the life I want to live. There's something about the detachment I have, the feeling of the lack of importance about what I do, that is healthy.
Jeremy Irons
#6. There is something about a home aquarium which sets my teeth on edge the moment I see it. Why anyone would want to live with a small container of stagnant water populated by a half-dead guppy is beyond me.
S.J Perelman
#7. If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do - perhaps above all we need a revival of the small-town civility of the nineteenth century. Manners, not devices: sometimes it's just better not to ask, and better not to look.
James Gleick
#8. The only thing that can stop you is you ... Stay focused and never mind any of the crap anybody says. That's not you, that's them. That's the negative place they want to live in. You choose to live in a positive place. - Scooter Braun
Justin Bieber
#9. What am I doing with my life? Am I just going to some humdrum job that I don't really want to be at, doing some minuscule task, getting paid to be a mindless drone? Or am I out there living life, on my terms, the way I want to live it, doing the things that I want to do?
Kai Greene
#10. I just want to live until I can't anymore, she said.
Gillian Flynn
#11. I do not like Moscow life. You live here not as you want to live, but as old women want you to.
Alexander Pushkin
#12. Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.
Joyce Meyer
#13. I don't want to live here. I want my old life back and I'll do anything for it.
M.M. Lindelo
#14. Do you want to live in a world where a man lies about calories?
Gail Parent
#15. I teach how to fit into a world I don't want to live in. I just can't do it anymore.
John Taylor Gatto
#16. There's nothing I want less than a piece of cheese or a burger. I have nightmares I'm being force-fed these things. I have no interest in converting anyone. It's purely how I want to live my life. I don't judge anyone.
Ginnifer Goodwin
#17. We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.
Peter Singer
#18. That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.
Herschel Walker
#19. You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Woody Allen
#20. The young were all fleeing the countryside to work in the city. Nobody seemed to want to live any more between the soil and the cow pats. [Italy in 1960s]
Marco Vichi
#21. We don't want to read a book. We want to live an experience.
Carolyn Wheat
#22. It's our dreams that keep us going, that seperate us from the beasts. I wouldn't even want to live if I thought it was all just eating and sleeping and taking off my clothes.
Mary Chase
#23. I don't want to live in a monoculture of any kind. I don't want to live in a wealthy monoculture, a black monoculture. I don't want to live in an elitist, progressive monoculture.
Richard Benjamin
#24. Andrea Gibson is a truly American poet, or rather, she represents the America I want to live in. Her work lights a candle to lead us where we need to go.
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
#25. If you really want to live,
Don't give a damn about
what others say or think
and just do what you want to do.
DO YOU!!!!
Jessica Fairweather
#26. If you want to live like a normal person, you are already part of history.
M.F. Moonzajer
#27. I've seen that cornered look on more than a few Parish faces over the years, and each time it brings a lump to my throat. The old-timers say you eventually get numb to it. I'm not sure I want to live that long.
Steven Dos Santos
#28. You have to embrace the world if you want to live in it now.
Miuccia Prada
#29. Yes, even in your mouse moods you only play with the idea of not being." She cleared her throat again. "Biology, you see. It's because of biology that we want to live and not to die. And it is because of biology that we come to a time when we want to die and not to live.
Aidan Chambers
#30. I don't want to live my life like a story. Always thinkin I could've been something. Don't run along side and control me. Just film away and let me be.
Tegan Quin
#31. Here's the bottom line: If we want to live and love with our whole hearts, and if we want to engage with the world from a place of worthiness, we have to talk about the things that get in the way - especially shame, fear, and vulnerability.
Brene Brown
#32. I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have to count on a prolonged future.
Albert Einstein
#33. I want to live in such a way that, if it is only twenty-nine more days or twenty-nine more weeks, or if it is twenty-nine more years or more, I want to faithful with each one of those-that I could go and meet the Lord without regrets, without unfinished business.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#34. Oh!' Said Sunny, and everyone knew what she meant. She meant, 'What a terrible place! I don't want to live there at all!
Lemony Snicket
#35. I do not want to live in a world where we have no privacy and no freedom, where the unique value of the Internet is snuffed out,
Glenn Greenwald
#36. I was having panic attacks. I didn't want to live that way anymore. I was in love and I wanted it to work. I was tired of travelling, tired of the whole scene, just tired. I sat around. I was lazy. I wanted a routine, and I wanted to wake up in the same bed every day, and I got my wish.
Linda Evangelista
#37. You're choosing to let life control you, instead of the other way around. That's the big secret. You choose the kind of life you want to live.
Nicholas Sparks
#38. But I knew that someday I was going to die. And just before I died two things would happen; Number 1: I would regret my entire life. Number 2: I would want to live my life over again.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#39. I guess my music career is my personal life. You know, I've always been a writer who wants to write about my experiences. And so this experience being added to that, I - I want to live extraordinary experiences. And when I give advice to people, I want it to be sage advice.
Jason Mraz
#40. How could you be nervous about asking me to marry you, Bones? I'd die for you. Why wouldn't I want to live for you as well?
Jeaniene Frost
#41. I do not want to live.
I want to love and then to live,
incidentally.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#42. After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
William S. Burroughs
#43. Each of us play a unique role in the history of life. What legacy do you want to live behind?
Lailah Gifty Akita
#44. I wasn't afraid of being poor. I didn't want to live in a big house. I'm the perfect size for poetry. I can move around.
Eileen Myles
#45. While living I want to live well.
Geronimo
#46. You want to live the dream? You do what you want on your terms.
Courtney Love
#47. Gangsta to us didn't have anything to do with Al Capone and stuff like that. It's just about living your life the way you want to live it. And you're not going to let nothing stop you.
Ice Cube
#48. [In the mines] Sometimes a man just walked over the edge [to his death] for no reason at all, or because he was unhappy and did not want to live anymore. You could never tell; there are many sadnesses in the heart of men who are far away from their countries.
Alexander McCall Smith
#49. The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.
Adam Davidson
#50. I no longer want to live in an apartment furnished with forklifts and backhoes.
Nicholson Baker
#51. Here it comes. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years when I wished for it daily, arriving only after I've decided I want to live forever.
Isaac Marion
#52. Would you really want to live in world where only the possible is possible?
Polly Shulman
#53. I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.
Brigham Young
#54. Live how you want to live, not being influenced by others around you.
James Hong
#55. Strong, disciplined mind, which anyone can cultivate through daily practice, can achieve miracles. If you want to live life to the fullest, care for your thoughts as you would your most prized possessions.
Robin S. Sharma
#56. I'm not saying that if you're working at home, raising a family, that's not work. I want to disrupt the narrative around what it means to be a woman who works. The whole point of my brand is that women should be architecting the lives they want to live.
Ivanka Trump
#57. If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.
Harry Reasoner
#58. We always want to live in an environment where there's no artificial block to good work.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
#59. People who's freedom is taken away always end up hating somebody. Right? I know I don't want to live like that.
Haruki Murakami
#60. I want to live our own lives, make our own decision and not live in the shadow of a former life"...... We owe ourself that much.
Danielle Fuller
#61. I want to live right and that means learning how to be kind to myself.
Jai Uttal
#62. Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!
Joseph Conrad
#63. I want to live in a new normal where I can reach out to people who are different from me and just be friends.
Bob Goff
#64. I want to live. I want to live life with all it's emotions, all it's experiences, I don't want to miss anyhting. But I feel like I will.
M. Leighton
#65. Kiss me like you want to live.
- Lachlain.
Kresley Cole
#66. All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
Sade Adu
#67. Do you want to live in a world where things are possible or one where they aren't?
Lena Roy
#69. New York and LA are both great places to visit, but I wouldn't want to live in either of them now. I find New York extremely claustrophobic and dirty. LA is quite a nice place. But there's no hustle and bustle, no street life.
Jonny Lee Miller
#70. But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?
Leo Tolstoy
#71. Encouragement is the most effective way to change someone's behavior. When you see the best in them you encourage them to become that and they will want to live up to your high opinion of them.
Kimberly Giles
#72. You know when I was depressed I said I didn't want to live? Well, I'll tell you something - I didn't want to die.
Bill Vaughan
#73. you want to live a more peaceful, meaningful life, you must think more peaceful, meaningful thoughts.
Robin S. Sharma
#74. I don't want all that much. But I want to be fine. I want to live a simple life with many good moments and a lot of fun.
Erlend Loe
#75. If you want to live on the edge of life, you need to be flexible.
Kim Novak
#76. I'm not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody's throat: 'You're going to do it my way.' I'd rather show by example and live my life and have people say, 'You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He's got peace and joy, and he seems content.'
Joel Osteen
#77. I want to live like there's no tomorrow. Love like I'm on borrowed time. It's good to be alive.
Jason Gray
#78. Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the road, I did not want to live in fear of that, I was gong to work somehow against what that vision was, and what that horror was. It was poetry, art, music.
Anne Waldman
#79. Seeing New York in the movies is what made me want to live in Manhattan one day. I eventually got my wish, and the city has never disappointed me.
Robert Osborne
#80. We're going to die, we're going to die. By the year 2000, there won't be any Belarussians left." My daughter was six years old. I'm putting her to bed, and she whispers in my ear: "Daddy, I want to live, I'm still little." And I had thought she didn't understand anything. Can
Svetlana Alexievich
#81. A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far, it soon becomes poisonous.
Geoff Mulgan
#82. Some people never find it
Some only pretend
But I just want to live
Happily ever after, now and then
Jimmy Buffett
#83. Speech is the resuscitation breath for living corpses and the water of life for those who want to live forever.
M. Fethullah Gulen
#84. If there are still men who really want to live in this world, they should first dare to speak out, to laugh, to cry, to be angry, to accuse, to fight-that they may at least cleanse this accursed place of its accursed atmosphere!
Lu Xun
#86. Many want to live long, and ignore pangs of eternity.
Toba Beta
#87. The only man who is right for you is the one you don't want to live without.
Melissa Foster
#88. Be really, really true to yourself. That to me, has been key to me in understanding how I want to live the second half of my life.
Gwyneth Paltrow
#89. He closed his eyes. 'Don't,' he said, but she could hear despair in his voice. It made her even angrier. It made her want to live down to his expectations.
Holly Black
#90. You must be prepared to step into the darkness if you want to live in the light.' (from The Walnut Tree)
Caroline Wedd
#91. Always, I want to live more intensely and richly.
Everett Ruess
#92. I know the biggest crime is just to throw up your hands and say 'This has nothing to do with me, I just want to live as comfortably as I can.'
Ani DiFranco
#93. I just want to live my life a little freely and not adhere to any schedule - just make music and have fun.
Shirley Manson
#94. I feel at various times in my life that I've been at a point where I had to choose between a death sentence and a life sentence. And I want to live. What do I do to live? What do I do to be vital? And the answer is always creativity. The answer is always art.
Jodie Foster
#95. The Ambassador and the General were briefing me on the ... the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice.
George W. Bush
#96. Im extremely honest, and I pride myself on it. I dont try to be shocking. Im playful, and I know when something Im saying is maybe shocking, but its just the truth, I never wanted to be scary to people or upsetting to people. I simply want to live the way I need to live.
Angelina Jolie
#97. Don't lie. You know you like to view but not to buy. I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. And that is the stubbornness in me: I do not want to be someone's little home.
Jeanette Winterson
#99. I have always been unsatisfied with life as most people live it. Always I want to live more intensely and richly. why muck and conceal one's true longings and loves, when by speaking of them one might find someone to understand them, and by acting on them one might discover oneself?
Everett Ruess
#100. Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.
Aristotle.
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