Live Quotes - page 68

We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these. (William Dean Howells)
Imagine that for hundreds of years your most formative traumas, your daily suffering and pain, the abuse you live through, the terror you live with, are unspeakable - not the basis of literature. You grow up with your father holding you down and covering your mouth so another man can make a horrible searing pain between your legs.... You learn how to leave your body and create someone else who takes over when you cannot stand it any more. You develop a self who is ingratiating and obsequious and imitative and aggressively passive and silent - you learn, in a word, femininity. View quote
Catharine MacKinnon
We never really cared about all the things that other people cared about, you know? Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me. I've always been kind of suspicious of the world, anyway, so it's pretty easy for me to live in my own little world. View quote
Meg White
Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim - for self-development, or the discovery of cosmic truths - when all you're really doing is to move from place to place as if devoted primarily to real estate. View quote
Margaret Caroline Anderson
She worked in order to live, and presently fel in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger. View quote
Victor Hugo
It is nothing to die it is dreadful not to live. View quote
Victor Hugo
Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in. View quote
Robertson Davies
We live in a world where bulk is equated with quality. View quote
Robertson Davies
The inert mind is a greater danger than the inert body, for it overlays and stifles the desire to live. View quote
Robertson Davies
The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. View quote
Martina Navratilova
Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live. (Jean Vanier)
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed. View quote
Wayne W. Dyer
Kandinsky in Munich uttered the well known words: 'Everything is permitted!' In 1961; we still live by this heritage, which in truth is inexhaustible. View quote
Michel Seuphor
And now because you are His child, live as a child of God; be redeemed from the life of evil, which is false to your nature, into the life of goodness, which is the truth of your being. Scorn all that is mean; hate all that is false; struggle with all that is impure Live the simple, lofty life which befits an heir of immortality. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences of his own folly. With a little wisdom and foresight, surely it is not yet necessary to forsake life in the fresh air and in the warmth of the sunlight. What a paradox if our own cleverness in science should force us to live underground with the moles. View quote
J. William Fulbright
It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable. View quote
Murray Leinster
Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin
We all live to a formula. Maybe the secret lies in keeping that formula secret. View quote
Peter Greenaway
It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It all works out in the end. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us. If we will put our trust in Him, if we will pray to Him, if we will live worthy of His blessings, He will hear our prayers. View quote
Gordon B. Hinckley
I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it. View quote
Marsden Hartley
the place [Dogtown, in Gloucester, Massachusetts] is forsaken and majestically lovely as if nature had at last formed one spot where she can live for herself alone.... [it] looked like a cross between Easter Island and Stonehenge – essentially druidic in it appearance, it gives the feeling that an ancient race might turn up at any moment and renew an ageless rite there. (Marsden Hartley)
I see the possibility of being 'made new' again and the gift of rebirth is all that lets anyone really live.... The great secret.... is never to get stuck, imprisoned in common social patterns. They always paralyse the real quality of life – the 'going onward' is all that matters, and the dead moments in one's life through trying to be a unit in any society or social concept are terrifying really. View quote
Marsden Hartley
Bid me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be, Or bid me love, and I will give A loving heart to thee. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
man is by nature designed to live in the polis, the highest form of koinonia, community; that is man's end or goal if he achieves the full potentiality of his nature. View quote
Moses I. Finley
I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work. View quote
Salvador Dalí