Top 100 We Live Quotes
#1. We live our lives before the wild, dangerous, unfettered and free character of the living God.
Walter Brueggemann
#2. Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality, but it's plainly true. Nowadays, we pay the price that satisfies our particular personality type; and then we live with the painful consequences.
Lynne Truss
#3. But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people.
Isabelle Huppert
#4. We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and human experience.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#5. When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world.
Scout Cloud Lee
#6. The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.
John Keegan
#7. We live with our past, for better and worse. What happens, happens and we must move on.
Chris Cole
#8. I'm filled with despair. We live in a pathological culture filled with rage and bitterness and greed. The hate-mongering and racism is reaching a frightening pitch.
Alison Hawthorne Deming
#9. We live in illusion and the appearance of things. There is a reality. We are that reality. When you understand this, you see that you are nothing, and being nothing, you are everything. That is all.
Gautama Buddha
#10. This is a massive world, I think, and in each centimeter of it, a different drama unfolds every second of the day. But we live on as if the next moment in our lives will be no different than the last. How foolish we all are.
Mahbod Seraji
#11. In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
B. Carroll Reece
#12. I think we live in a pluralistic society where we have to get along with each other and show common grace to each other.
Rick Warren
#13. We live by choice, not by chance.
Hal Urban
#14. We live in a time where brands are people and people are brands.
Brian Solis
#16. We live in an advanced capitalist society, after all. Waste is the name of the game, its greatest virtue. Politicians call it "refinements in domestic consumption." I call it meaningless waste.
Haruki Murakami
#17. If we are honest with ourselves, most of us will have to admit that we live out our lives in an ocean of fear.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#18. Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in her children is growing.
George Meredith
#19. America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.
Jane Addams
#20. We live and learn, or, perhaps more importantly we learn and live.
Terry Pratchett
#21. Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us.
Coco Chanel
#22. Playing basketball with my teammates was a gift! We cant play any more but we live the memories each day!
Theresa Grentz
#23. Americans should not have to wonder if their government is actively looking to subvert them or their political views. We live in a nation where respect for differing beliefs and a vibrant political discourse play an important role in shaping our government.
Mike Turner
#24. We live so little time in this world that it is no matter how wretched and miserable we are, if it prepares us for heaven.
Jupiter Hammon
#26. We live in the last days, in the cold hearted and self centred world where people like you for what you can give or for what they can get from you. That's the world of today.
Euginia Herlihy
#27. The idea that public safety, the safety of the innocent, is an absolute which trumps every other consideration, is tacitly abandoned in the way we live.
Tom Stoppard
#28. We live in one of the most complex ages for young, professional women.
Natalie Dormer
#29. We live in a world where black humanity is a relatively new idea.
Marc Lamont Hill
#30. Customers are the reason we open our doors every day, and keep the machines humming all night long. Customers determine what we eat, where we live, whether we stay in business.
Harvey MacKay
#31. We live by encouragement and die without it
slowly, sadly, and angrily.
Celeste Holm
#32. We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in.
Brit Marling
#33. Rorschach did not seek death; he didn't commit suicide by Manhattan. But he understood what the others did not. "It is better to sacrifice life than to forfeit morality. It is not necessary to live, but it is necessary that, so long as we live, we do so honourably."18
William Irwin
#34. We live in an in-between universe where things change all right ... but according to patterns, rules, or as we call them, laws of nature.
Carl Sagan
#36. Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.
Jane Rule
#37. We live aware of God moment by moment. He is not part of our lives; He is our life.
Craig Groeschel
#38. It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we're losing the vast majority of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Dave Eggers
#39. A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick ... and it's profitable.
Heather Donahue
#41. We live by a perceptual "map" which is never reality itself.
Carl R. Rogers
#42. I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.
Philip Levine
#43. Light came out of this river since - you say Knights? Yes, but it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
Joseph Conrad
#44. The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival.
Leo Buscaglia
#46. We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Orson Welles
#47. We live through the belief of children ... Regicide is suicide, citizens. Inscribe that in your hearts. The Great Pretend is a fragile construct.
Bill Willingham
#48. We live not in the world outside, but in a world inside ourselves.
Harun Yahya
#49. Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.
Erasmus Darwin
#50. Anchoring our hope to Christ means we live with a confident expectation that he will therefore fulfill his promises to us.
Lee Strobel
#51. We live in a time where government is not a leadership thing, it's more a business that's out there and running riot, so I guess the people have to go out there and say stuff.
Yahoo Serious
#52. We live in a world that is crying out for better leadership.
Bill Hybels
#53. So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key."
(Already Gone)
Eagles
#54. Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving
ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing
each other out. We set this house
on fire, forgetting that we live within.
(from "To a Meadowlark," for M.L. Smoker)
Jim Harrison
#55. What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#56. People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions, driven by thinking machines that we have no final authority over. The frenzy is barely noticeable most of the time. It's simply how we live.
Don DeLillo
#57. We live in a melting pot. More and more, people are some kind of mixture. Even if you're Caucasian, you're a mixture of something.
Brooklyn Sudano
#58. We live in a culture that has a real hard time distinguishing fiction from reality. Even when they're told something is fiction.
Nic Pizzolatto
#59. I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky.
Ryan Adams
#60. And our problems will crumble apart, the soul / blow through like a wind, and here where we live
will all be clean again, with fresh bread on the table.
Pablo Neruda
#61. All ideas about identity, of course, fit perfectly into the social media wonderland we live in. They seem to really connect. There's a science-fiction aspect to our contemporary life. What's virtual, what's real ...
Vijay Seshadri
#62. I use the term 'disabled people' quite deliberately, because I subscribe to what's called the social model of disability, which tells us that we are more disabled by the society that we live in than by our bodies and our diagnoses.
Stella Young
#63. We live in a society created by an empire
That's based on terror ... welcome to the One World Era,
A complete interruption to your lil' paltry-ass life,
That you thought you was livin, and what you been given.
Coolio
#64. Leadership makes a difference in the results we create and the quality of life we live.
Bob Anderson
#65. We live in a world of careers. Work, as Sri Krishna points out in the Bhagavad Gita, is a necessary path for everyone attaining enlightenment. It is something that we all do. Some people work very hard at not working.
Frederick Lenz
#66. I know it's just a game. But so is life. And how we play the game has something to do with how we live our life.
Nick Cole
#67. We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did not turn away.
Cassandra Clare
#68. It is necessary to point out that we live in times in which extremity is simply the last remaining form of sanity in an increasingly mad world.
Chilton Williamson
#69. We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic aspirations.
Eskinder Nega
#70. A real writer has to be able to write about the body. They have to. It's where we live. So
Helen Oyeyemi
#71. We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by faith.
Pat Benatar
#72. Regardless of whether we live in the East or the West, whether we are rich or poor, we must find contentment with what God has given.
Linda Dillow
#73. We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception.
Chris Hedges
#74. However, it still seriously pisses me off that we live in a world where you can't be free to express yourself in whatever strange way you happen to choose.
L. H. Cosway
#75. The mind, whatever else it is, is a constant of everyone's experience, and, in more ways than we know, the creator of the reality that we live within ... Nothing is more essential to us.
Marilynne Robinson
#76. The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.
William McDonough
#77. What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot
#78. My favourite Friday treat is to drive out of the centre of Cambridge, where we live, and go for a swim at the health club I've just joined out in the countryside at Quy. It's a lovely pool, inside a converted barn. Usually it's just me and a couple of other swimmers there.
Sophie Hannah
#79. We live forever; but they don't come back.
Anne Rice
#80. We live with a value system that I call the Extrovert Ideal - the omnipresent belief that the ideal self is gregarious, alpha, and comfortable in the spotlight.
Susan Cain
#81. Hell of a world we live in, huh? ( ... ) But it could be worse, huh?"
"That's right," I said, "or even worse, it could be perfect.
William Gibson
#82. We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you. Were your ancestors 'primitive'? I don't think so. We respect our ancestors. We love our children. This is the same for all people.
Roy Sesana
#83. Let us disperse from our aloofness and serve the weak who made us strong, and cleanse the country in which we live. Let us teach this miserable nation to smile and rejoice with heaven's bounty and glory of life and freedom.
Kahlil Gibran
#84. Wrong thoughts pattern your life towards it for we live our thoughts.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#85. The world we live in has been and is being increasingly politicised so that our daily experience is more and more a matter of public policy.
Deborah Eisenberg
#86. As we live, we breathe death into our lungs, like fine particles of dust.
Haruki Murakami
#87. We do have responsibilities, as we live on this planet. It is our one and only home, which we are obligated to protect, to keep as beautiful and harmonious as it is. It is really for everyone to do so, including you and me.
Li Bingbing
#88. Our marriage is grounded in the word of God. That's really it. God is the core of our marriage, and the foundation and the blueprint for it is how we live, and being open and honest and communicating, but ultimately doing what pleases God, and not in a selfish manner.
Candace Cameron Bure
#89. We live to avoid death, we exist to avoid unexistence
Peter Steele
#90. I have come a long way and learnt a lot. I read this quote about a year ago: 'Happiness must not be pursued; it must ensue.' It's made me realise that just being married again or something like that won't make me happy; the happiness ensues from how we live our lives.
Lucy Davis
#91. We might have reason to be driven! We live for a short stretch of time in a world we share with others. Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat.
Amartya Sen
#93. We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.
Robert M. Sapolsky
#94. The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.
Marlo Thomas
#95. Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins
#96. And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling cooped we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help-for it As impotently moves as you or I
Omar Khayyam
#97. We live in a society that puts a high premium on success and I learned, mainly through my dad, that salvation would come through success, and I carried that into my adult life and it's a total lie.
Steve Almond
#98. Learning to desire God's will is not something we can accomplish by resolve and willpower. It occurs only when we live so close to God's heart that the rhythm of our own heartbeat comes to reflect the divine pulse
David G. Benner
#99. The mediocrity of everything in the great world of today is simply appalling. We live in intellectual slums.
George Santayana
#100. We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God's truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness.
R.C. Sproul
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