Live Quotes - page 66

One person I do feel a little sorry for, though, is the Archbishop of Canterbury, the most important clergyman in Britain and he's only got two lousy palaces to live in. What sort of life is that for a man of God? I bet if Jesus came back, even he'd be embarrassed for him; I bet he wouldn't be able to look him in the eye. (Pat Condell)
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. View quote
Lewis Mumford
The cycle of the machine is now coming to an end. Man has learned much in the hard discipline and the shrewd, unflinching grasp of practical possibilities that the machine has provided in the last three centuries: but we can no more continue to live in the world of the machine than we could live successfully on the barren surface of the moon. View quote
Lewis Mumford
Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men. View quote
Ennius
Live, and be happy, and make others so. View quote
Mary Shelley
It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind. View quote
Lucretius
The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach. View quote
Le Corbusier
The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say "me” and "mine”; they are only blessed in being instruments. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
When we really begin to live in the world, then we understand what is meant by brotherhood or mankind, and not before. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Come out into the broad light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest content to live and die in small ruts? View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Once you live in New York, you can't live anywhere else. Living in Paris is like going in slow motion. It's so bourgeois. I get so bored. (Marina Abramovic)
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. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head. View quote
Ann Landers
Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To live without duties is obscene. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best of minds. Men live on the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their hands on the door-latch they die outside. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man. View quote
Euripides
I'm not much of a family man. I'm just not that into it. I love kids, I adore them, but I don't want to live my life for them. (Sting (musician))
Art is not necessary at all. All that is necessary to make this world a better place to live in is to love - to love as Christ loved, as Buddha loved. View quote
Isadora Duncan
In the US. Infantry Manual published during World War II, the soldier was told what to do if a live grenade fell into the trench where he and others were sitting: to wrap himself around the grenade so as to at least save the others. (If no one "volunteered," all would be killed, and there were only a few seconds to decide who would be the hero.) View quote
Anatol Rapoport
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God. View quote
Martha Graham
Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence. View quote
Bill Maher