Top 100 We Live In Quotes
#1. We live in an age of progress," announced Professor Wogglebug, pompously. "It is easier to swallow knowledge than to acquire it laboriously from books. Is it not so, my friends?" "Some
L. Frank Baum
#2. In my early 40s I started to feel that I had neglected the spiritual side of my life. It had always been there, but I'd neglected it. In fashion, that's really easy because we live in the future, and we can place too much importance on material things.
Tom Ford
#3. Communicate with your fans or customers. They know we live in an ever changing world. If you tell them what you are thinking and why you are doing what you do, as I did with my blog regarding Nash leaving, they will respect and support you more.
Mark Cuban
#4. It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#5. I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
Kate Clinton
#6. Secret Notes:
He wrote secret notes to people he hadn't met yet. Some of them aren't even born, he said, but we live in a strange neighborhood & they will need help figuring things out & I won't always be around to explain it to them.
Brian Andreas
#7. It's a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture.
Sarah Ruhl
#8. Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art is utopian
Dean Cavanagh
#9. We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.
Ben Barnes
#10. [T]he world we live in is governed by the most revolting bunch of crooks ever to defile the soil of this planet... [You] must never take them seriously, which is exactly what they want.
Albert Cossery
#11. We live in the same city but don't see the same things - you see buildings and I see memories ...
John Geddes
#12. I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is.
Bruce Springsteen
#13. We live in a world that's very fast, where we get bombarded with huge amounts of information very quickly, and I have tried to tailor my voice to the times, which I think, writers, over the course of history - many have always done.
James Frey
#14. We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.
Rem Koolhaas
#15. We live in a society that only embraces success and that is who we are. It takes a great deal of inner strength to deal with the time commitment of coaching when very little seems to be accomplished.
George M. Gilbert
#16. Everyone went out and bought Sex, it was sold out in two seconds. And then everybody slagged me off. That, to me is a statement of the hypocrisy of the world that we live in. The fact that everybody is so interested in sex but won't admit it.
Madonna Ciccone
#17. I don't believe in fate ... but ... I do believe everything happens for a reason. That there is some plan, some meaning to this darkness we live in ... Maybe I'm wrong, but it's gotten me this far. It's the reason I fight, the reason I can keep going, despite everything. And it ... it led me to you.
Julie Kagawa
#18. There is no doubt that we live in an age of unprecedented, and sometimes terrifying, technological advance where the speed of advance so often outstrips the necessary ethical considerations.
Prince Charles
#19. We live in an epoch of denudation.
John Joly
#20. It's hard to let go anything we love. We live in a world which teaches us to clutch. But when we clutch we're left with a fistful of ashes.
Madeleine L'Engle
#21. We live in a time like dreaming ... The edges of our lives flutter and change as we watch them. Listen to the dream.
Sheri S. Tepper
#22. We live in an era of terrible preoccupation with presentation and interpretation, one in which relations between who someone is and what he believes and how he "expresses himself" have been thrown into big time flux.
David Foster Wallace
#23. Now I've been crying lately, Thinking about the world as it is. Why must we go on hating? Why can't we live in bliss?
Cat Stevens
#24. As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.
Sam Harris
#25. No matter how much time has passed, these things still affect us and the world we live in. If you don't pay attention to the past, you'll never understand the future. It's all linked together.
Sarah Dessen
#26. We live in a time of such rapid change and growth of knowledge that only he who is in a fundamental sense a scholar-that is, a person who continues to learn and inquire-can hope to keep pace, let alone play the role of guide.
Nathan M. Pusey
#27. If what we said cannot go beyond the century we live in, it means that we have said nothing. Let us say something for all the centuries!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#28. We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that.
Terence McKenna
#29. We live in such an amazing World and we don't even see it.
It's clouded by hate, betrayal and death.
When do we stop all of that and begin living?, when do we realise that we're made for more than this?, our ability is far more powerful than we think!.
Ellie Williams
#30. What kind of a world do we live in that has room for dog yoga but not for Esperanto?
Arika Okrent
#31. When we live in a beautiful place and there is no Happiness, iT Will Be the same as want to get sunshine in the rain.
Jan Jansen
#32. We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.
Zygmunt Bauman
#33. When we live in alignment - in accordance with our higher selves, our Spirit - that's when we are truly connected to our Soul.
Excerpt from "Living in Light, Love & Truth". (Page 26).
Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos
#35. Witches aren't like that. We live in harmony with the great cycles of Nature, and do no harm to anyone, and it's wicked of them to say we don't. We ought to fill their bones with hot lead.
Terry Pratchett
#36. to make science the arbiter of metaphysics is to banish not only God from the world but also love, hate, meaning - to consider a world that is self-evidently not the world we live in. That
Paul Kalanithi
#37. Don't you think there's a problem when we live in a society that considers a woman's greatest accomplishment being pretty for a man?
Yasmin Mogahed
#38. I am afraid to live in the society we live in today. Our society cannot be maintained by this type of incompetency.
Jacque Fresco
#39. We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.
William Gaddis
#40. We don't sleep to sleep, dammit, any more than we eat to eat . We sleep to dream. We're amphibians. We live in two elements and we need both.
Edward Nesbit
Lindsay Clarke
#41. We live in an age that's repeating itself endlessly. We're getting closer again to the techno-chic world we saw in Atlantis that occurs in countless planes. It's indigenous to enlightenment.
Frederick Lenz
#42. We live in a bureaucratic, atomized world, but the system is still run by human beings. If as a writer, you want to capture the world we live in, I think you have some responsibility to at least try to get at some of the ways we've chosen to govern ourselves.
Adam Haslett
#43. We live in a world of instant gratification, the world of the quick fix.
Rachael Taylor
#44. It is not about sexuality that is important to most people who care, it is what we do for our community and our family, our friends and just human compassion for others that matter in the world we live in daily.
Lisa Stone
#45. Our emotions are different but we have them. We never cast a cold eye on life or death. Don't misunderstand our seeming serenity. After all, we live in a world of perfect trust in The Maker, and we are keenly aware that humans often do not, and we feel an active sorrow for them.
Anne Rice
#46. We live in Secret. We live in Silence. And we live Forever ...
Luis Marques
#47. We live in an age where truth really doesn't matter anymore.
Bill O'Reilly
#48. All of us wrestle with the angels of our inabilities all the time. We live in fear that our incapacities will be exposed. We posture and evaluate and assess and criticize mercilessly.
Joan D. Chittister
#49. People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.
Jose Saramago
#50. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
Joan Baez
#51. The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.
Vincent Massey
#52. Worship is a meeting at the centre so that our lives are centred in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live in response to and from this centre, the living God.
Edmund Clowney
#53. We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#54. If the duties before us be not noble, let us ennoble them by doing them in a noble spirit; we become reconciled to life if we live in the spirit of Him who reconciled the life of God with the lowly duties of servants.
Frederick William Robertson
#55. It's a constant, continuous, spectacular world we live in, and every day you see things that just knock you out, if you pay attention.
Robert Irwin
#56. Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
Oscar Wilde
#57. A love relationship has always been shaped by the context and times we live in.
Gael Garcia Bernal
#58. Global warming is a matter of national security. Will we live in a world where we must fight our neighbors for fresh water and food? Or will we take the lead now and leave to our children and grandchildren a world better off than the one we inherited from our parents?
Wesley Clark
#59. In the '50s, a lot of stories were built around radiation and the proliferation of new technology. In the '70s, there were a lot of stories that dealt with the Vietnam War. So comic books have always been a reflection of the times we live in.
Jim Lee
#60. We live in a world where equality is pretty important.
John Key
#61. [Making meth] is a complex process. The truth of it is that we live in a post-Google world where you can find six recipes for meth in 30 seconds on a search engine.
Vince Gilligan
#62. The people who are worried about privacy have a legitimate worry. But we live in a complex world where you're going to have to have a level of security greater than you did back in the olden days, if you will. And our laws and our interpretation of the Constitution, I think, have to change.
Michael Bloomberg
#63. Why does a father have to protect his son?" I thought for a moment before answering. "Look," I said as I stroked his cheek, "the world we live in can sometimes be very tough. And it's only fair that everyone who's born into it should have at least one person who'll be there to protect him.
Etgar Keret
#64. The greatest gift an actor can have is not revealing who he is but through the parts he plays. Unfortunately, we live in a world where everyone wants to know everything all the time and I think it takes away part of the fun of acting that we have to go through that all the time.
Jude Law
#65. We live in a time when we have a communal duty to receive and broadcast love. We must set aside our repeating arguments and get a handle on our destructive depressions.
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Michael Ben Zehabe
#66. We live in an age of confusion and thirst in which the advantages of communication are greater than those of secrecy.
Frithjof Schuon
#67. We live in a nation where education and free thought are tantamount to treason, and I have to ask, under these circumstances, is treason such a bad thing?
Michel Templet
#68. Anyway, in the end, I don't really believe in Heaven at all and i don't believe in perfect angles. I think that this might be the only Heaven there can possibly be, this world we live in now, but we haven't quite realized it yet.
David Almond
#69. Let us not project our own spiritual limitations onto the modern world, for it is not the world which prevents us from being religious. The kind of world we live in shapes the manner and mode of our religiousness
Harvey Cox
#70. This is a strange country we live in. When it comes to electing a President, we get two choices. But when we have to select a Miss America, we get 50.
Jay Leno
#71. Just as the earth is a planet in its own right, so each of us is an individual in our own sphere of habitation. We are individuals, but we live in families and communities where order provides a system of harmony that hinges on obedience to principles.
James E. Faust
#72. In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.
Haruki Murakami
#73. The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.
Jeff Koons
#74. Every American is from somewhere else. Each is hated for what he brings that is different from the rest. We live in uneasy peace. But it is peace, for the most part.
Scott Turow
#75. As Scots - like everyone else - we live in an increasingly inter-connected world that demands shared solutions to shared problems. Walking away from others have never been our way. Walking with others has been our heritage and still represents our best future.
Douglas Alexander
#76. We live in a regime built on force and lies. In essence, it's the same here as in Uzbekistan, except the government here is better at presenting itself to the outside world.
Isa Gambar
#77. The spiritual law at the core of our being requires that we reach out. We are fulfilled to the extent that we live in relationships.
Elizabeth O'Connor
#78. I also think we live in a competitive world, and I love competition.
Arsene Wenger
#79. Bravery is the ability to endure, even unto death, all types of terrible, terrifying and painful situations and we live in a time when people do all that they can to avoid hardship and pain, never realizing that strength and courage is found in both.
Donna Lynn Hope
#81. We live in such a noisy world that many of us have come to be afraid of silence. We think that if only we do a great deal, it does not much matter what we are.
Mother Mary Francis
#82. We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier. In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing, we have less and less actual society. We live in an accelerating contradiction: The more connected we become, the lonelier we are.
Stephen Marche
#83. We live in a very insecure world with a very insecure communications platform.
John McAfee
#84. I hope my novels will allow you to become lost in a world totally unlike the actual world we live in. I work hard to make the words evoke particular images, thoughts, feelings, the mystery of relationships.
Jay Neugeboren
#85. We live in a society where we may have differences, of course, but we learn to celebrate these differences.
Bernice King
#86. I saw a sign on the side of the road in Tennessee once that said 'dirt for sale' ... what a great country we live in. DIRT for sale. How would you like to get inside that guys mind and look around for a hour? That guy sees opportunity at every glance, doesn't he?
Bill Hicks
#87. As for my slowness as a writer - that's been a struggle, no question. We live in a culture that values and rewards machine-speed productivity. Even the arts are expected to conform to the Taylor model of productivity.
Junot Diaz
#88. The Holy Spirit truly transforms us. With our cooperation, he also wants to transform the world we live in.
Pope Francis
#89. We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for-me?' attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground.
Ben Carson
#90. When this tent we live in - our body here on earth - is torn down, God will have a house in heaven for us to live in, a home he himself has made, which will last forever. 2 CORINTHIANS 5:1 TEV
Rick Warren
#91. We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations.
Adlai Stevenson
#92. Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#93. We live in a world community, and economic contact has partly contributed to that. It's also the case that economic opportunity opened up by economic contact has helped to a great extent to reduce poverty in many parts of the world.
Amartya Sen
#94. We live in a world where the more you're working, the more things you do. It's a workaday world.
Al Pacino
#95. We live in a funny time. If you don't go corporate, you can't compete. You're relegated as irrelevant. People used to admire that.
Ethan Hawke
#96. We live in a society where those in the know use radiation resistance health techniques.
Steven Magee
#97. I believe in kindness and niceness and lots of spiritual things, but the real intellectual rigor and quest of logic is something that I'm afraid takes incredibly hard work and we live in an age in which hard work is if not actively deprecated or denigrated it is run away from or ignored.
Stephen Fry
#98. It is so simple: the choices we make in our everyday lives, the things we do (or not) for others, define the world we live in.
Bernard Jan
#99. Women are terrified of their sexuality because they've got so much of it, and we live in a society that says they don't.
Frederick Lenz
#100. To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
Wallace Stevens
